Monday, November 2, 2009
HALLOWEEN JESUS DRESSUP
My first online experiences were with WebTV. It wasn’t a bad product, though it had severe limitations. You could email and surf, create personal web pages, play games and join a community of fellow users in various newsgroups. The search engines of choice back then were Yahoo Answers and Ask Jeeves. There is a new challenger to Google, one that I have used on occasion and find it to be very competitive, and this is Bing. People probably won’t use it because it is a Microsoft product.
Every once in a while I “Google” myself. I find that in the past I entered some information about a Frank Zappa concert I attended in Buffalo during the early ‘70s. I also made a comment on an article in Ship of Fools. My name is also found in a genealogy that traces itself back to Russia in the 1600s, where I am remotely related to the Krushev family! I am also to be found in the website of the church I attend.
This morning I “Googled” the name Jesus. I am a Christian, and am helping out in an outreach Bible study which is exploring different aspects of the life of Jesus, so I was curious what opinions are about Jesus on the internet.
The first article was from Wikipedia. The second site listed was “Halloween Jesus Dressup.” I should have known better but curiosity and impulsiveness won its way and I entered this website.
I was appalled.
There was a picture of Jesus on the cross, and the rest of the page was filled with all sorts of costumes that you could drag over and place on Jesus. That was far from the worst of it. There were also options for “Star Wars Jesus” and “Xmas Jesus” and “Wizard of Oz Jesus” and “BDSM Jesus”.
Further investigation disclosed that this site has been created by an atheist. There is a flashing sign in the upper right corner of the page that proclaims “Your Prayers Did Nothing”.
Such brazen hostility and hatred towards Jesus always catches me by surprise. I suppose I am naïve.
I quickly turned to my Wordsearch Bible and rejoiced in the words found in the first chapter of Colossians.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
19 For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,
20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— Colossians 1:15-22 (NASB)
How can they live without Jesus? How can they live without God’s love?
Every once in a while I “Google” myself. I find that in the past I entered some information about a Frank Zappa concert I attended in Buffalo during the early ‘70s. I also made a comment on an article in Ship of Fools. My name is also found in a genealogy that traces itself back to Russia in the 1600s, where I am remotely related to the Krushev family! I am also to be found in the website of the church I attend.
This morning I “Googled” the name Jesus. I am a Christian, and am helping out in an outreach Bible study which is exploring different aspects of the life of Jesus, so I was curious what opinions are about Jesus on the internet.
The first article was from Wikipedia. The second site listed was “Halloween Jesus Dressup.” I should have known better but curiosity and impulsiveness won its way and I entered this website.
I was appalled.
There was a picture of Jesus on the cross, and the rest of the page was filled with all sorts of costumes that you could drag over and place on Jesus. That was far from the worst of it. There were also options for “Star Wars Jesus” and “Xmas Jesus” and “Wizard of Oz Jesus” and “BDSM Jesus”.
Further investigation disclosed that this site has been created by an atheist. There is a flashing sign in the upper right corner of the page that proclaims “Your Prayers Did Nothing”.
Such brazen hostility and hatred towards Jesus always catches me by surprise. I suppose I am naïve.
I quickly turned to my Wordsearch Bible and rejoiced in the words found in the first chapter of Colossians.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
18 He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
19 For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,
20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.
21 And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds,
22 yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach— Colossians 1:15-22 (NASB)
How can they live without Jesus? How can they live without God’s love?
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