In Jesus' defense, at the very outset, I must point out that the 
Gospels were not written until many decades after his death.  He might 
not have said and done any of the things people said he did.  In fact, 
he might just be a myth.  My point here is that the Jesus presented in
the Bible is not perfect or worthy of worship.

Point 1:
Jesus replied to the man who called him "good master": "Why do you 
call me good?  No one is good but God alone."
(Mark 10:18)

Jesus denied that he was perfect or God

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Point 2:
Jesus was asked if he was going to Judea for the festival of 
Tabernacles:
"As the Jewish feast of Tabernacles drew near, his brothers said to 
him, 'Why not leave this place and go to Judea...'" (John 7:2,3)

Jesus replied:
"I am not going to this festival, because for me the time is not ripe 
yet." (John 7:8,9)

but Jesus did go to that festival in secret:
"However, after his brothers had left for the festival, he went up as 
well, but quite privately, without drawing attention to himself." 
(John 7:10)

So Jesus was a liar.

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Point 3:
Jesus spurned the afflicted child of a gentile, likening them to dogs:

"Jesus left that place and withdrew the region of Tyre and Sidon.  
Then out came a Canaanite woman from that district and started 
shouting, 'Sir, Son of David, take pity on me.  My daughter is 
tormented by a devil.'  But he answered her not a word.  And his 
disciples went and pleaded with him.  'Give her what she wants,' they 
said, 'because she is shouting after us.'  He said in reply, 'I was 
sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.'  But the woman 
had come up and was kneeling at his feet. 'Lord,' she said, 'help me.'  
He replied, 'It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it 
to the dogs.'  She retorted, 'Ah yes, sir; but even  dogs can eat the 
scraps that fall from their master's table.'  Then Jesus answered her, 
'Woman, you have great faith.  Let your wish be granted.'  And from 
that moment her daughter was well again.  (Matt. 15:21-28)


What a callous attitude towards a suffering child just because she 
wasn't Jewish.

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Point 4:
Jesus, was asked why his followers were breaking the Sabbath laws 
by reaping and eating grain from a field as they went along.  He 
replied:

"Did you never read what David did in his time of need when he and 
his follwers were hungry - how he went into the house of God when 
Abiathar was high priest, and ate the loaves of offering which only 
the priests are allowed to eat, and how he also gave some to the men 
with him?" (Mark 2:25-26)

Jesus was in error.  It was not Abiathar but Ahimelech who was high 
priest:
"David went to Nob to Ahimelech the priest.... the priest gave him  
what had been consecrated, for the only bread there was the bread of 
offering which is taken away from the presence of the Lord to be 
replaced by warm bread when it is removed" (1 Sam. 21:1,6). 

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Point 5:
Jesus was a false prophet.

At his trial, he told the High Priest Caiaphas would see that he would 
see his coming in power:

"...Moreover, I tell you that from this time onward you will see the 
Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds 
of heaven."  (Matt. 26:64)

Caiaphas died, and Jesus' still has not arrived in power thousands of 
years later.  The penalty for false prophets is death.

 But this was not the only occasion that Jesus was a false prophet.  
In Matthew 24: 34 Jesus said "I tell you solemnly, before this 
generation has passed away all these things will have taken place" in 
reponse to his disciples question: "Tell us, when is this going to 
happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the 
world?"

Jesus did not return in his generation nor the dozens of generations 
that followed.  And still some gullible people expect him!

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Point 6:
Jesus' teachings were kept secret so most people would go to Hell:
"When he was alone, the Twelve, together with the others who formed 
his company, asked what the parables meant.  He told them, 'The secret 
of the kingdom of God is given to you, but to those who are outside 
everything comes in parables, so that they may see and see again, but 
not perceive; may hear and hear again, but not understand; OTHERWISE 
THEY MIGHT BE CONVERTED AND BE FORGIVEN.'" (Mark 4:10-12)

What an evil attitude!  And this is the man we are told was sent to 
the lost sheep of the House of Israel?  He is probably the worst 
preacher that ever lived.

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Point 7:
Jesus claimed the mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds and grows 
into a tree that can shelter birds in its branches:

"It (a mustard seed) is the smallest of all seeds, but when it is 
grown it is the biggest shrub of all and becomes a tree so that the 
birds of the air come and shelter in its branches."

But the Mustard seed is not the smallest herb seed and the plant when 
full grown is only a meter to a meter and a half tall, not even close 
to the size of a tree.

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Point 8:
Jesus said "No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came 
down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven..." (John 3:13).
I guess Jesus never heard of Elijah who was taken up to heaven in 
a flaming chariot!

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Point 9:
Jesus destroyed a fig tree for not having fruit even though it wasn't 
the season for figs to bear fruit:

"Next day as they were leaving Bethany, he felt hungry.  Seeing a fig 
tree in leaf some distance away, he went to see if he could find any 
fruit on it, but he he came up to it he found nothing but leaves; FOR 
IT WAS NOT THE SEASON FOR FIGS.  And he addressed the fig tree. 'May 
no one ever eat fruit from you again,' he said.  And his disciples 
heard him say this." (Mark 11:12-14)

This took place just before Passover which occurs in March or April. 
Figs cannot be expected in Israel until June.  To destroy an innocent 
tree for not having fruit when it wasn't even in season does not 
reflect well on Jesus.  He displayed ignorance and pettiness.


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Point 10:
According to Matthew, Jesus accused the Jewish leaders of murdering 
Zechariah son of Barachiah:
"...Zechariah son of Barachiah whom you murdered between the 
sanctuary and the altar." (Matthew23:35).

Unfortunately, the Zachariah mentioned was slain in Jerusalem, 69 CE;
so that Matthew makes Jesus refer to an event that occurred 39 years 
after his death in the past tense.

Referring to this passage, the Catholic scholar Dr. Hug says: "There 
cannot be a doubt, if we attend to the name, the fact and its 
circumstances, and the object of Jesus in citing it, that it was the 
same Zacharias Barouchos, who, according to Josephus, a short time 
before the destruction of Jerusalem, was unjustly slain in the 
temple."

Commenting on this passage, Prof. Newman says: "There is no other man 
known in history to whom the verse can allude. If so, it shows how 
late, how ignorant, how rash is the composer of a text passed off on 
us as sacred truth" (Religion not History, p. 46).

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Point 11:
What did Jesus' own relatives think about him?

"When his relatives heard of this, they set out to take charge of him, 
convinced he was out of his mind."  (Mark 3:21)

"Not even his brothers, in fact, had faith in him..." (John 7:5)

Of course, Jesus seemed to have a problem with family relationships.


"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, 
and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he 
cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26).

He appeared to follow his own advice.
"His mother and brothers now arrived and, standing outside, sent in a 
message asking form him, 'Your mother and brothers and sisters are 
outside asking for you.'  He replied, 'Who are my mother and my 
brothers?'  And looking around at those sitting in a circle about him, 
he said, 'Here are my mother and brothers.  Anyone who does the will 
of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.'

Jesus expected his followers to be at war with their families:

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send 
peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his 
father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law 
against her mother-in-law" (Matthew 10, 34, 35).

What kind of family values is that?  No wonder his family thought him 
insane.

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