It’s the 15th of April and you still have a couple of days to get around to cheating on your taxes. Personally I spent the night at church.
I like the Saturday night version of church better than the Sunday morning one. Especially on a holiday weekend when the Sunday morning service is packed with all the people that only show up on the holidays. Not that I’m dissing them for darkening the doorways at Easter and Christmas, but don’t the realize that Jesus takes roll every week and notices who’s seat is empty on those other weeks? Just asking, that’s all.
Having just finished reading Misquoting Jesus I guess this is a good week to be asking questions. Like how could the Bible be the ‘divinely inspired word of God’ if regular guys wrote it? Why did it take a couple of centuries to get around to writing the New Testament any way, weren’t any of the disciples taking notes at the time? If Judas was the treasurer the why couldn’t Paul have been the secretary? He seemed to be good at cranking out letters after the Resurrection, maybe he was just as good prior to.
Not that I think Judas was a good guy or anything. God knows that I’m too Southern Baptist for that, but if Christ knew that he was going to have to die to win our salvation, then wouldn’t he have selected a disciple that he knew could be trusted to rat him out? Or are we supposed to believe that the Son of God simply let one slip by him? And doesn’t that fly in the face of the whole being perfect thing? Or was Jesus not perfect, but just without sin?
It’s the kind of thing that makes my head hurt if I think about it too long. There are some things that you just have to take on faith. Who Jesus is/was and why he showed up here in the first place are a couple of the questions that you have to answer for yourself and work from there.
Now, go cheat the IRS out of some cash and ask God to keep them from catching you.