Reason #189 Why Christianity is the Funniest Religion Ever

Shortly after the fall of Adam and Eve, G-d reveals that He has a plan, but is vague as to details. We assume this is to keep Satan guessing; but who knows?

Thousands of years pass, and a hundred or more generations, millions of people are born, live and die on the planet. The Jews, G-d’s Chosen People, are led by a comic parade of outcasts and misfits. And then –

Born in Bethlehem, among whispers of unknown parentage, Yeshua appears. He seems to be yet another in a series of Messianic preachers, but there’s something “off “about him. He claims (humbly, which is odd) to be the express image of G-d, what G-d would be if He became a human. Indeed, he claims to be G-d.

Celebrated largely by the anonymous masses in his lifetime, and adored with his entrance into Jerusalem just before Passover, he will instead find himself cast aside by strangers and friends alike in the confusion surrounding his political passivity.

What? He’s not the new-coming King of Israel?

The crowds abandon him to Roman justice, and turn to follow the next, latest fad.

He is nailed to a cross. All of history has come down to this man, at this time. G-d’s plan comes, with the blotting out of the Sun, to its apparent climax.

But it is only a feint. The real climax comes days later, a “topper” to end all toppers. Jesus dies for the salvation of all who will admit it, but then, after Passover, after everyone has got back to work and “real life,” on that Sunday following,

He comes back, risen from death, alive again and for all time and soon to issue an invitation to all to join him as sons of G-d, and not servants, for all eternity.

And, at the moment of this greatest triumph?

He is mistaken for a gardener:

Jesus said to her, Woman, why weepest thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him to be the gardener, said to him, Sir, if you have borne him hence, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.

[He] said to her, Mary. She turned herself, and said to him, Rabboni; which is to say, Master.