Here's an interesting, "Real Jesus" point!!

OK, so I am a believer that the western church has lost sight of the truth about church. It has been indoctrinated to accept the Catholic model or at best a biblically rehashing of the Catholic model, but not actually a Catholic model.

OK, so what if you thought the western church has not only falsely represented the purpose and form of church, what if they have also falsely represented Jesus Himself. Why not, after all, if they have missed the teachings of scripture could they not also have missed the teacher!?

I'm not saying you are not saved, but that the Jesus we are shown is not fully the real Jesus. After all you walk into an Anglican church and tell me, that with all the robes and ceremonies that they truly represent the real Jesus.

But what if the Bible gives a clear sign as to who the real Jesus is? That would be an easy test wouldn't it, quite simple really? Just measure the sign again the represented Jesus and see whether the two match up!! For years I have known this misunderstanding of things but tonight I heard it put in the terms I have explained here. Here is the verse that gives the test:

"39But Jesus replied, "Only an evil, faithless generation would ask for a miraculous sign; but the only sign I will give them is the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40For as Jonah was in the belly of the great fish for three days and three nights, so I, the Son of Man, will be in the heart of the earth for three days and three nights" Matthew 12:39-40

Three days and three nights! Does your church teach that Jesus was crucified on Friday and raised on Sunday? If so then it isn't the Jesus whose sign is that he will be in the ground for three days and three nights. It is no biggy! They might even say, "What does it matter?" What it matters is that if they are not willing to change the traditional view to match the scriptural view then they are prepared to compromise scripture for the sake of tradition!

Paul said, "4You seem to believe whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach about a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed." 2 Corinthians 11:4.

I have known for years that Jesus would have been crucified on the Thursday. The Passover has a double Sabbath and that the Jews did not permit for anyone to be crucified on a Sabbath. This is why they broke the legs of the other two to make sure they died quickly. However, Jesus was already dead. They took him down and buried him on then. Otherwise you only get two nights between Friday and Sunday. This was the Jesus that Paul preached, who is preaching "another Jesus" whose sign is not to have been in the ground for three days and three nights? Well, it started, of course, with our good old friends the Catholics!! The question is, why are we perpetuating their falsehood?

Was it, as some say, that it doesn't mean a literal three days and three nights?! Well, what kind of a sign is it if it wasn't literal!? It is the same as saying Jesus couldn't count to three! "Well my sign will be a chariot riding across the sky", "well, when I say chariot I mean donkey and when I say sky I mean saned!!" When you look at how literally Jesus fulfilled the prophecies in the Old Testament, there isn't much room to anything other than, "If He said it He meant it!" Otherwise what is His word worth. There are those who think they have a special insight because they know how to interpret these things, but that is an elitist club of intellectual snobs. If you can't trust Him to count to three how can you trust Him with your salvation?!

This brings into my minds fresh doubts, I am supposed to be being inducted as a member of the local church on Sunday, do I want to join an institution that peddles falsehood!?