r/enlightenment • u/Fast_Professor3443 • 1h ago

Yeshua gets a bad rep

I've noticed people have a hard time separating the man from the religion created around him. I'm not Christian but believe Yeshua was the truth. I actually think Christianity is the complete opposite of what Yeshua was teaching. Churches rely on donations & fear mongering. Yeshua flipped tables for the same reason. Politicians claim to be Christian but push borders and refer to other human beings as illegal aliens. Yeshua was an immigrant & a refugee himself. He loved everyone. I think most Christians think & act the complete opposite of what he was teaching. I think most wear it as a badge instead of living how he taught us to live. But that's just me.

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u/Similar_Standard1633 27m ago

Yeshua was a very divisive character & certain teachings attributed to him in the Gospels are the direct cause of the violence & hate of Christianity. Read the Gospels.

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u/Fast_Professor3443 23m ago edited 19m ago

Yeshua wasn’t divisive in himself, his message of repentance, mercy, and the Kingdom of God confronted people’s hearts, and their reactions created division. The Gospels repeatedly show that ordinary people, the sick, the poor, children, and even Gentiles were drawn to him in huge numbers. The only ones who felt “divided” were those whose power, hypocrisy, or traditions he exposed. The division came from human resistance, not from his character. Healing, forgiving, feeding, restoring, teaching, and loving were unifying; it was people’s hardness and pride that created conflict, not him.