Bible study Is Jesus good?

One thing we all aspire to be, is as good as Jesus. But how good is he? Here we explore just that, from one powerful bible passage, we really get the answer.

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This article contains opinions based on the bible, please bare in mind that these are only opinions I have formed, it is up to you whether you agree with them or not.

I found this time round's bible study, very interesting! I am doing these bible studies alone, and I'm finding so many things out! 

To first understand Jesus' personality, let's look to Hebrews. 

Hebrews 4:15
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.

What an amazing passage. The passage above explains that Jesus too, has sinful thoughts. Yet he does not act on them. 

The next passage I want to show you, is in Luke. 

Luke 14:26
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.

I was so extremely relieved to read this passage. Personally, I often feel like I hate my life. I always felt this to be ungrateful. However that verse tells me that it is okay, with good reason, to 'hate' your life. It is okay to 'hate' people. There is always room for improvement. However, this doesn't immediately disqualify us from Heaven. 

In fact, if we take a look at:

Luke 14:33
In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.

This explains with perfect clarity, that to be Jesus's deciple, you have to leave everything and everyone behind. It is less likely that you can be Jesus's deciple, if there is somebody that means too much to you, enough for you to stay. ⏩'

Within reason, if you hate your life but are still a nice person, Jesus respects that. 

Jesus respects that you hate people. He wants you to love them and forgive them, but you can have love/hate relationships. 

The real test is how you are as a person.

Luke 18:19
“Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.

This is another, clear as anything, passage. Jesus says to us that even he has qualities that are not 'good'. Only good is perfectly 'good'. 

Luke 12:57
“Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?"

And lastly for this page, I bring up the verse above. In this passage from what I can gather, Jesus is frustrated with all the questions people asked him about getting into heaven. In my interpretation, this is Jesus saying that we should be the judge on what is right and wrong. Jesus is the son of god. He gives amazing leadership, and examples. But we ourselves, need to judge right from wrong.

If you are bad at judging, read about Jesus and how he deals with certain things. That is the way we should be. He is accepted by god. If we want to be accepted by god, we need to start behaving more like Jesus. 

In conclusion 

Yes, Jesus is good, but not as good as god. And in my opinion that was the point Jesus was trying to get across! 

Anyway, thank you so much for reading this! As always, I hope you found this as informative as I did! I look forward to writing future posts! 

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