Defying God's Actions

Today I read from the 3rd to the 8th chapter of the Gospel of Luke, and I got a lot more to talk about. There are many things I want to tell you.

First, the Bible had another one of those say-everything-without-summarizing-in-extremely-too-much-detail moments. It has been happening more than I wish it did, but well, those were other times when it was written. What I did like was the reason why it was done. It started saying who Jesus was son of, and who his father's father was, until it got to God. "Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God (3: 38)." I think it was cool and all, but why take the trouble of making such a list of names? It was about 2 pages long! Those people seriously needed to get a life. I'm sorry if I'm disrespectful, but it's true.

There are many parts that I found interesting, and fun. Again we are introduced to the topic of temptation that has been present in the bible since the beginning of humans. This time, the devil tries over and over again to tempt Jesus into following someone else that is not God, but Jesus knows the way and doesn't let himself be tempted.

Another interesting thing I found is something that I knew before, but I don't yet understand. I always knew that Jesus was Jewish, but the only difference that I am sure about between Judaism and Catholicism is that Jews don't believe in Jesus. How can Jesus not believe in himself? Wouldn't that make him into a Catholic? "And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all (15)."

I also found really interesting to see people's response to forgiving sinning. No one liked it when Jesus said he could forgive sinning, because that was something that supposedly only God could do, but anyways they accepted everything else. I don't get why they would accept healing people, if the one who made them be sick, blind, or dead was God Himself. Why would they accept Jesus to change what God had done but not do something God would have done anyway? Something tells me no one had realized Jesus was undoing all of God's deeds.

I find this very funny, but worrying at the same time, that if one wants to make one miserable, they will reach any extent to accomplish their task "And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him." The Jesus haters would have done anything to make him feel bad. That is something that can be related with famous people of the moment. They all have haters, who would reach any extent to make them feel bad in any way possible.

There were also some things I had never heard of in the story, which I think I probably should have known. One of them was that I had no idea one of the 12 apostles had been a traitor. I thought all of them followed Jesus and lived happily ever after. That was something I didn't even expect. I also didn't know that Jesus could make people come back from the dead. I knew he had healing powers and all, but I didn't know he could, as I said before, change God's will.

Something that I really liked was the whole speech of "be nice to your enemy." I thought it was really true, and that is something that I hadn't said since the teachings of the Tao Te Ching. It was inspiring, and everything they said is something that if you follow yourself you are going to do very good in life. I like the fact that Jesus is not a tattletale, and if someone does something wrong then he will just make that wrong right. Anyways, I think his ego is too high. He seems to think he is great, and even if he is, he shouldn't act like that. Just saying.

Something I don't like about Catholicism that men are a lot more important than animals. I think animals are also living beings and deserve to be treated with respect, not like Jesus and the devil do. "Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked." Even if they are just pigs, they have a life, and in my opinion, they deserve to live it.

That is about it in what I have to say about chapters 3-8 in the Gospel of Luke, but be sure to check in for more as I read more of it!