In fact, God’s wrath burns fervently against the wickedness and injustice of man and his judgment always meets the severity of sin. Deuteronomy says “Every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods” therefore man’s ultimate end of the rebellion in to meet the wrath of a Holy God (Deut. An example of this could be found with His dealing with the Canaanites due to their wickedness. God’s judgment sometimes brings a violent end to those who are wicked. Jesus was not a pacifist, and the overall context of scripture does not depict the God of the Bible as one being one. Was Jesus violent? Let me say from the beginning Jesus did use violence (Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-18, Luke 19:45-47, John 2:13-16) in cleansing the temple. Aslan portrays Jesus as a man of war who worshiped the “blood-spattered God of Abraham, and Moses, and Jacob, and Joshua” and who knew full well that “God’s sovereignty could not be established except through force.” But these scholars often claim as John Dominic Crossan did in “Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography,” that Jesus was a nonviolent revolutionary. After all, he was crucified by Rome, and crucifixion was at the time punishment for political offenses. Many scholars have argued that Jesus was a political figure. In this article I would like to look at seven of Aslan’s points and weigh its validity:
Currently, on the New York NR1#, the bestseller list is Reza Aslan’s “Zealot: the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth”.
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