Jesus Did Not Die For You

 Jesus didn’t die for you. 


As we approach Christmas, you’ll hear many people talk about Jesus. They’ll say the story of Jesus is about the forgiveness of sins. They are likely wrong in the way they mean it. Not just wrong, but deadly wrong.


There is a story of Jesus where he is arrested and brought before the courts. He’s innocent of course and the judge of the day recognizes this. Instead of letting Jesus go, however, he lets the crowd decide by offering to pardon him or an actual murderer.  The crowd pardons the murderer, sacrificing justice to murder, and orders Jesus to be executed, also sacrificing justice to murder. 


Barabas needed the pardon. Jesus did not. The people, operating on the doctrine of sacrifice and need, betrayed the innocent because they hated the innocent. They forgave the guilty, because they were guilty.


Beware of followers of Jesus

Both John and Judas followed

Judas to betray

John to love 

Both Elders and Disciples watched him

The disciples to learn 

The elders to kill


For those who claim to love Jesus, ask them who they would have convicted (The Murderer who deserved it or Jesus who didn’t) and why. This will tell you whether they’ll see the goodness in you as a reason to have you crucified. This will tell you whether they’ll see your sin as something that needs to be forgiven. This will tell you if they are defenders of justice or murderers themselves.


Therefore, the story of Jesus is not one of forgiveness, at least not in the way you have been taught by your elders and chief priest. It is not a damnation of justice or a refutation of the Law. The message of Jesus is not to be like God and sacrifice the most holy thing (god) to the most vile (man’s sin). The story of Jesus is one of faith, of the affirmation of your virtue and the goodness of your life. It is a story about the power of belief in one’s self and existence and how even death, the ultimate negation of life, has no power over the affirmation of life. 


Jesus didn’t die for you. 

He showed you how to live forever. 


Side note: Isn’t it interesting what is said to the two groups who betray Jesus, the chief priests and elders and Judas. The same phrase is uttered to them both. “You bear the responsibility.” After betraying the best for the sake of the worst and for a paltry price (30 pieces of silver) Judas hung himself. He commits suicide which is the most poetic and contradictory end to someone who despises the source of all his virtue, his SELF. For isn’t the command to commit suicide “With my self I should kill myself.” No life can survive a command like that!


Such is the natural end of all who say it’s good to betray the best for the sake of the worst or who care so little for their lives that they don’t demand the highest payment for it.

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