Jesus Behaving Badly

The Puzzling Paradoxes of the Man from Galilee

By: Mark L. Strauss

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Paperback | 25 September 2015

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Everybody likes Jesus. Don't they?We overlook that Jesus was

Judgmental--preaching hellfire far more than the apostle Paul
Uncompromising--telling people to hate their families
Chauvinistic--excluding women from leadership
Racist--insulting people from other ethnic groups
Anti-environmental--cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrifice
Angry--overturning tables and chasing moneychangers in the temple

He demanded moral perfection, told people to cut off body parts, made prophecies that haven't come true, and defied religious and political authorities. While we tend to ignore this troubling behavior, the people around Jesus didn't. Some believed him so dangerous that they found a way to have him killed.The Jesus everybody likes, says Mark Strauss, is not the Jesus found in the Gospels. He's a figure we've created in our own minds. Strauss believes that when we unpack the puzzling paradoxes of the man from Galilee, we find greater insight into his countercultural message and mission than we could ever have imagined.

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"Mark Strauss provides a wonderful account of Jesus full of wit and wisdom that shows that the meek and mild Jesus is Sunday school fiction. The Jesus of the Gospels is a much more complicated character who felt compassion and anger, who preached peace and kicked over tables, who made friends with prostitutes and offended the religious establishment, who resisted family values of the day and even started a revolution in Judaism. Reading this book could be like meeting Jesus for the first time."

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