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If Jesus Was Born Today
Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 24, 2025 (message contributor)
If Jesus was born today, it would be in a bed and breakfast
A traffic warden, working late, would be the first on the scene. Later a TV network would arrive with their good wishes.
The whole Occasion would be filmed as part of *Is this the Son of God” one hour special
If Jesus was 30 today, they would not really care about His public ministry, they would just be too busy investigating his finances and trying to prove He had Mafia or Church Connections
His sinless perfection would be considered by moral philosophers as OK but a bit repressive.
If Jesus was 31 he would be a fly in everyone’s ointment, the sort of controversial person who stands no chance of eminence.
Communists would expel Him,
Capitalists would exploit Him or have Him smeared by people who knew a thing or two about God
Theologians would take Him aside and try to persuade Him of His own non-existence.
If Jesus was 32 today we’d have to end it all:
Heretic,
Fundamentalist,
Literalist,
Puritan, Pacifist or
Non-Conformist.
We’d take Him away and quietly end the argument.
But the argument would rumble in the ground and at the end of three days, would break out and walk around as though death was something irrelevant saying
“I am the Resurrection and the life, no man comes to the Father except by me”
While Semanticists would wonder exactly what He meant by” I” and “No man”, there would be those who stand around amused, asking for something called “proof”
You see to be a sceptical, secular society, Jesus would still be seen as an outsider if He were born today.
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