Jesus was a Hippie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus travel around the middle east, preaching about love and peace and healing the sick and saving the damned. Think about Jesus was an old school hippie. Christians need to focus on how Jesus lived and not on the early churches teachings. What would jesus do about gay marriage and abortion. He would accept people for who they are. Jesus was perfect because he is the son of God. The church is flawed because it was set up by man.

 

Lol.

 

Yup, Damn right.

Jesus was an accepting kind man who was in affect a hippie. Sadly, This went (and is going) above the heads of a lot of people.

(I just found out where this thread is, and I read the sign...Christians only, ahh, right, I'm Wiccan, heh, I'll leave now).

 

Yes , i have always believed he was the ORIGINAL HIPPIE...peace and love and nature....and charity......and everyone was his brother and his sister.
A VERY cool person !

 

Couldn't agree more
The creation of the modern church is IMO one of the greatest tragedies of history. Its sort of the the gov. taking Martin Luther king jr's ideas and many many years from now using them to promost racism. This isnt a very good metaphor actually, but you see what Im saying?
The church took Jesus's teachings to lead one to liberation and used them in the EXACT OPPOSITE WAY, as a way to STOP people from attaining liberation

 

jesus was the first hippie that touched the soles of his tattered flip flopd feet to this earth.
he was the first peace promoter
he was the first activist
the first vegetarian
the first straight edge man.

he was the first influence of positivity.

he was a simple nomadic traveler that wished the best for us all.

i am a follower of this man. i love him so very much.. he changed me from the inside out. i am day by day ..thru his unfailing grace currently growing into his likeness.

 

^uh...jesus wasn't vegetarian. and he wasn't the first of all of those other things listed either.

 

then who was?
let me rephrase..GOD. oh yea the father of jesus.

 

i don't know who the first was, but to claim jesus was the first vegetarian? the first promoter of peace? you are attributing qualities to the man that are fabricated.

if your argument is that jesus = god and therefore jesus was the first to do great things, then i have to remind you that the same god was the first to destroy nations because of religion, the first to ordered his followers to keep slaves, and the first who told his people to rape young women. doesn't sound peaceful and straight edge to me.

don't get me wrong, i'm also a follower of christ's teachings, but i'm not going to say that jesus was the first computer repair man or the first to invent the hammer, because it's all just silly stuff i made up. like your first post in the thread.

 

I think a pretty good case can be made for this, backed up by some modern scholarship. Jesus emphasized the value of voluntary poverty and simplicity. He preached non-judgmental acceptance and love of everybody. He taught that we should live in the present and not worry about material concerns. He was anti-establishment, but preached peace and non-violence. Crossan of the Jesus Seminar portrays him as a Jewish peasant cynic. What is a cynic? Not what it means today--a person who believes that people are motivated by selfish interests. In Jesus' time, it was a school of Greek philosophy that "held virtue to be the only good, and stressed independence from worldly needs and pleasures." Cynics were one of many Greek schools of thought that were introduced to Palestine after the Greek occupation by Alexander the Great and later the Roman occupation. Kinda like hippies.

 

maybe you should try respecting my personal opinion. im a little wacked out in my thinking as im sure you can be at times. im not telling you this is what you too need to believe now am i? i just like to think that god is the root of all positivity. satan is the root of all scum.

 

you can believe whatever you want man. im not trying to stop you from believing whatever, im just calling out the false statements.

btw, you said in another thread you were vegan your whole life? your parents raised you vegan? if so, that's cool. there wasn't a lot of vegan alternatives 20 yrs ago...

 

yea my parents raised me from when i was a little young one as a vegan. my mom joined a natural remedy community where she then learned how to cook wonderfully healthy gourmet vegan food. we arent the starving non nutritious no oil types.
i love very very very much its one of my main passions. i just made plum cobbler tonight.

are you into health?

what religious views (if any) do you have.

 

yea im a vegan too. and i am into health

my religious views include: the processing of sensual perception, manipulating my environment by physical means, human interaction, non-violence, and mind expansion.

 

very nice. sounds like just living an honest life with nothing to formal bout it.

 

i relied on dogma and the teachings of others for many years until i realized that everything i needed to know was inside of myself. now i only use the words of the teachers as a guide, rather than rules that i must follow.

 

btw, have you seen the vegetarian forum?

 

i dont rely on anything in the bible as my crutch= mostly i feel it uplifts my spirits and quenches my thirst for mental stimulation. im not some feeble soul that cant think for herself! i believe in other things from other religions and i have some conclusions of my own. i have gone through many religious walks in my life this is the one i am involved with now..is all. im not trying to convince anyone this is what they should do (at least i have learned to not even go there with people) i just know its helped me out a whole lot it really has transformed me into a happier being and i find no fault in that. i also feel like veganism/mental purity/natural remedies/exercise/water/sunlight..etc are wrapped up into my religion. god is a part of my religion so is christianity (not the whole entire sect of it.) others are NOT a part of my religion and i think that is where people go wrong.. religions /spiritiual walks/& beliefs are highly personal things.rules are control. i dont like control. beliefs CAN set you free. that is just my personal opinion.

no i should chek that out..i could help the newbies with some recipes!
werd.

 

yes, i feel that way too, with some texts. some parts of the new testament for example, the Baghavad Gita, the teachings of Buddha, the works of Ram Dass, Joseph Campbell, and other works pertaining to the great mysteries.

i agree with you here too. these things are all part of my personal philosophy.

how do you feel about the 'sin' ? do you believe there are rules by which god uses to determine our eternal fate?

 

i feel there are no rules in which god uses to determine our personal fate. all we have to do is believe in him. i hate the word sin i hate all those faggish terms but out of convenience i use them from time to time.

i feel like "sin" (another word for negativity/negative actions) can lead you astray from believing in god. for instance- when i was dealing with addiction i completely threw god out the window and shut him out of my life.
so maybe its not the actual sin persay i have a problem with-
addiction is the issue here with me at least.
i cant keep from getting addicted to indulgences like those so therefore i stay away from them..not to say others cant..if you can keep yourself from being overcome than i cant judge.
i dont think its the actual "sin" i believe rather that it is the effects of certain sin(s).
if you sin god isnt going to throw you in hell- but if you dont believe in him than he isnt real so why should you get to eternallly fellowship>