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“The whole idea of the Betty Crocker comparison was to take a new perspective (hopefully a humorous one) on a subject that many consider sacred or off limits. Jesus,” So, somehow, by being irreverant about something or someone whom others respect, you think that you will be amusing some people of like mind? Do you think that there will be any benefits derived by mocking something sacred to others?
On your handling of this question. a quote by Lewis Carrell comes to my mind…
“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.”
As to your recent post, I wonder how many people have been thought to be crazy because their detractors were not able to understand what they did?
There are explanations for this behavior, which never perplexed me. It seemed pretty obvious, but I won’t mock you for lacking the ability to understand.
Everything He did was for the purpose of instruction or to cause the events to unfold as they had been ordained. There were a couple of reasons for the episode at the temple. He did want to make a statement as to the lack of respect being shown to the sacred place, but the method was designed to enrage those who would later be key players in his trial and crucifiction. He was not acting precipitously, as he stopped to prepare the whip. His family’s lack of understanding of his purposes is not surprising. I’m sure each of us have experienced this.
The fig tree was an object lesson, it represented the leadership of the Jewish community and the fact that they would fail to be “fruitful”. They appeared righteous, but theirs was a hypocritical and empty righteousness. Consequently, Jesus cursed this tree of hypocrisy that symbolized the condition of the leaders of Jesus’ day.
“Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere