Most of the posts, that I publish here, are essays about what I believe and specific reasons for why I believe, as well as how those things relate to my theology of nuance. I have been asked “What, Who and Why” I believe. To these questions I have made several attempts, but obviously, I am not quite through. I will continue latter, if the Lord permits me.

However, now, I would like to ask some questions of you, if you have the answers please post your answers for me.

1. Do you believe that Jesus is the “example” for all humankind?
2. If you say “yes”; is there anything that Jesus did, which He has specifically excluded from His disciples?
3. Who is a “disciple” of Jesus?
4. Do you think of yourself as a disciple?
5. Does the Father expect disciples of Jesus to use “common sense”?
6. Did Jesus use common sense in any part of His incarnation, ministry, and sacrifice?
7. Can you cite the examples of Jesus, using “good judgment”?
8. Was His, giving up the throne of heaven and being born as a helpless baby to an unmarried mother, “good judgment”?
9. Did Jesus use good judgment when he selected His band of apostles?
10. Was God the Father using good judgment, when He placed His “only begotten Son” in Bethlehem under a narcissistic homicidal maniac, such as King Herod the Great?
11. Did the Lord use anything even close to “good common sense”, when He refused to answer the Jewish High priest and the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate?
12. In what way, can Jesus be said to be our “example”, if we, for our own carnal will & reasoning, seek to exclude all meaningful representations of the Father’s & Son’s love, mercy, and compassion, as being unique to Jesus’ ministry, and therefore, should not to be followed by His disciples?
13. I keep looking for the Lord to stand up and take matters into His hands and utterly crush the wickedness of humankind. But…, if He were to do the thing that I envision…, would I be swept away with all the other wickedness of humankind?
14. I wonder if there is any example in Jesus life, that the Father hopes that we will follow?
15. And I wonder if that example, might just be Jesus “in toto”?

God Bless,
DSM

Oh…, to the picture for this post, did Stephen use any common sense, when Saul and the other devoutly religious men stoned him to death?

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