royal<p><strong>Jesus reveals God</strong></p><p>(from Richard Murray via Michael Welchert)</p><p>To confirm that His Heavenly Father was capable of</p><ul><li>killing</li><li>oppressing</li><li>afflicting</li><li>smiting</li><li>plaguing</li><li>disastering</li></ul><p>All Jesus had to do was</p><ul><li>stone (or endorse the stoning of) one person caught in adultery (or any other capital sin)</li><li>afflict one evil sinner with a plague</li><li>strike one hypocritical Pharisee dead</li><li>oppress one double-minded person with an evil spirit in order to punish them</li><li>smite one person with a crippling accident causing them paraplegia so that they would thereafter learn humility and how to give God all the glory for their misfortune</li><li>send one lightning storm, tornado, mudslide, or tsunami to wipe out particularly hard hearted villages or cites.</li></ul><p>Had Jesus done any of these things, even just one time, then anybody who dared claim otherwise would be forever proven wrong.<br>But He didn’t.<br>He doesn’t.<br>He won’t.</p><p><a href="https://theres.life/tags/jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jesus</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/revelation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>revelation</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/goodNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goodNews</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/God" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>God</span></a> <a href="https://theres.life/tags/incarnation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incarnation</span></a></p>