Wasn Jesus just a good moral teacher, preaching love and peace and tolerance and all that?
Wasn’t Jesus just a good religious and moral teacher in the tradition of Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, and Mohammed? Wasn’t his main message just to be kind and tolerant to each other and live good lives? It has been commented that Jesus’s followers are twisting his message today by making it judgemental in a way it was never meant to be. Some Christians today do regrettably exercise judgement willy nilly, and love hardly at all. So what did Jesus really say? It is true that Jesus taught us many good things about the way that we should live our lives. However, his main message was not concentrated on these things. He kept coming back to a main point of being “ready” for something that was coming. When it came, it would be final, and permanent, and would separate people into two sets. Jesus’s very first words of preaching, according to Matthew, were “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.” (Matthew 4:17). He claimed that very few people would find life. “Enter through the narrow gate
