Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."
Mark 3:20-21
Why did Jesus' family think he was crazy? Didn't they know he was the 'Son of God'?
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Jesus, You Nut!
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"out of his mind"
Jesus was on a mission. Many at the time, did not understand his mission. He came in fullfillment of the Law of Moses. While its happening, people could not fully get their brains around what he was doing. Shortly, they were to realize his signficance, but at the time, they thought he was acting oddly. His family members particularly. With the exception of his mother, few would actually support him until after his death and resurrection.
Someone has to play catch with Simon. He can't just throw the ball to himself all day.
Hey Simon mate, getting impatient, eh?
Answer at my place as promised.
why wouldn't they? Nobody knows you better than your family. Well, the saying was nobody knows you better than yourself but then you wouldn't acknowledge that you're crazy right? So your family has to do it for you. People don't check themselves into loony bins. Their families do.
Just trying to be logical since logic explains a lot more stuff than bible passages.
Chris, didn't Jesus' family notice he was the 'Son of God'? What did they think that big star was guiding everyone to his birth? And who did they think those wise men were - 3 odd-looking midwives? If his mum is the only one in the know, why doesn't she tell them? Is it a secret?
If so many people who actually knew Jesus, who saw him grow up and lived with him, didn't believe he was the 'Son of God', why are Christians so insistent that 'eye-witness' accounts of what people thought of Jesus are proof - if so,we have 'proof' he was a nut.
Why is it that Mark doesn't mention the virgin birth and even 'militates against it'?
Why is it that Mathew and Luke, who introduce the idea of Jesus as messiah and 'Son of God', have removed the bit about his family thinking him a nut-job?
Clearly, they realised that it was incompatible with the story they were trying to create.
Simon,
I must commend you on the engaging nature of your blog; which attracts such a variety of correspondents... Although I find it hard to comprehend how some of you have so much time to devout to this cyberspace chit-chat... If you have the time, you just must take the time to read buglaster's response, as I think it is excellent.
Maybe they just thought - hang on, wandering around the countryside healing people and offering them passage to heaven - is he going a little bonkers. Of course, the biggest truths are completely mad. I mean really - we went to the moon?
But its not logical to take things out of context.
Other than a few close ones, its not clear from the bible who knew he was the Messiah until after his baptism, when his ministry began.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John deal with different things, written by different people with unique viewpoints. They aren't meant to conform with each other. Its like all of us are witnessing a parade and then thereafter we are interviewed by the local press about it. Since I was concentrating on the jugglers, my interview centers on that. You may have been pre-occupied with the clowns, and maybe Dabich was focused on the dancing girls. Each of us saw the parade, but each was focused on different aspects of it. Then someone like you, Simon, two millenia later argue that the stories don't agree so the parade never happened.
xI don't say that at all.
Chris, Luke and Matthew both copy whole phrases from Mark and arrange them in an identical order as found in Mark. Not the act of independant eye-witnesses each telling their own account from their own view-point, is it?
How do you account for that?
Scribes.
Read that book I told you about "Misquoting Jesus".
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