re: Jesus Gets Us commercial was mocking Jesus

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It seemed to be pointed at Christians specifically as if it's the Christians who are full of hate and who need to be reminded of who Jesus was. If we want to be real about things, Jesus's earthly ministry never told people to be accepting of sinful behavior or lifestyles. Jesus, as part of the triune godhead, is, was, and always will be the same God as the God of the Old Testament. The same God that destroyed entire populations who were wicked, sinful, and deserving of judgment. Jesus didn’t come to change or undo any of that. Anyone with a reasonable amount of knowledge and understanding of the Bible would know and understand that. But again, using one verse theology, all too often people like to paint Jesus as a pacifist liberal hippy type, when in reality, time and time again, he proved with his own words and actions to be the opposite of that. “Do not think I have come to bring peace to earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword” (Mathew 10:34). This wasn’t to say his people were tasked with starting wars in his name. It was rather the fact that those who would not go along with a sinful society and follow his word instead would find themselves at odds with that society and with the people who chose to take sides with that society. Jesus didn’t come to be accepting of sinful lifestyles. He came to fulfill God’s covenant and to pave the way for salvation for all who accept him, regardless of their sin, and repent from their sins. He also talked very seriously about how hard it would be for some on judgment day, even though they conveniently leave those parts out.

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I think the intent was to wag a finger at Christians who do not want their children sexualized, mutilated, aborted, or indoctrinated, or who stand against the myriad other serious socially driven evils in our world today and somehow paint them as the haters for not wanting to go along with it.

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