Posted on 12/25/2017 7:14:45 AM PST by Kaslin
For Christians, Christmas is a unique time of joy associated with the birth of the savior Jesus, whose life, death and resurrection makes possible a personal and intimate relationship with God. Jesus was born a Jew, and his teachings were built on the foundation of the Torah and the Old Testament. And so it is that Christians and Jews have much in common and share a natural mutual affinity.
Christians and Jews have both faced persecution throughout history, and hostility is again intensifying. And that persecution comes not just from radical Islamists, but also from secular progressives who now dominate Western culture.
Various towering intellectuals even wish that Christ had never been born. Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, who separately inspired and/or influenced the rise of murderous totalitarian regimes in Russia and Germany both condemned Christianity and religion in general. For Marx, “religion was the opium of the people.” Nietzsche said Christianity was “the greatest of all imaginable corruptions.”
It’s a Wonderful Life is an American film classic enjoyed by more during the Christmas season today than when it first came out in 1946. Directed by legendary Frank Capra, the film is an otherworldly story revolving around a main character played by Jimmy Stewart -- a narrative showing what life would have been like if he had never been born. Similarly, since Capra’s collective cinematographic works exhibit a profoundly Christian vision, it’s worth extrapolating on how history and the present would be different if Christ had never been born.
For starters, if Christ had not been born, people around the world may not have agreed on how to measure time. Think how confusing it would be if different people and nations didn’t count time as Before Christ (B.C.) or after Christ (A.D.).
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A jungle.
You got it!
Well, where’s my Christmas present?
The world would be ruled by Islam, and we’d still be riding horses and and riding across the oceans on sailing ships. Electricity would not exist at this time, and the majority of the world would be illiterate. Imagine how Muslim African nations are today like Somalia. that is how all of Europe would be like.
What would the world look like if John the Baptist had never been born?
Jesus called him the greatest who had ever been born.
California
The middle east.
I doubt if there would have been an Islam with no Christianity. The Koran seems to be a misuse and mistranslation of Eastern and Gnostic Christian liturgical literature. (I would also argue it includes some Jewish mystical literature!)
The world would not last at all . . . the atoms would not hold together, and if the sinless Son of God were to fail in even one promise creation would fall apart.
“For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist” (Colossians 1:16-17).
I’m just the messenger . . .
Truth.
Even worse is we would still have god-kings and human sacrifices.
No doubt about it.
We would be utterly lost in sin and evil with no hope. He has made all the difference!
Actually, we have a good idea. It would be much as it was. Short, miserable, harsh lives followed by permanent death.
ONE SOLITARY LIFE
He was born in an obscure village, the son of a peasant woman.
He grew up in another village, where he worked in a carpenter’s shop until he was thirty.
Then for three years he became a wandering preacher.
He never wrote a book.
He never held an office.
He never had a family or owned a house.
He didn’t go to college.
He never visited a big city.
He never travelled two hundred miles from the place where he was born.
He did none of those things one usually associates with greatness.
He had no credentials but himself.
He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies and went through a mockery of a trial. He was executed by the state. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth. When he was dead he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend.
Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race and the leader of mankind’s progress.
All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on this earth as much as that One Solitary Life.
I am a firm believer that regardless of one’s religion, it can be said factually that the civilized world used the teachings of Jesus to become a more peaceful and civil world.
That said, I think without Jesus the world would have been more like the middle east is today, which is savagery, stupidity, and ignorance.
The major players during the time of Jesus, including the Jews and the Romans, were very savage and becoming more so. They were bound to devolve into what the middle east is today, which is nothing but one vendetta war after another.
Jesus taught to stop all that, to be more civil and forgiving such that the endless vendettas could cease. He taught to be prosperous and productive and not give into hatred and evil. He taught his disciples to go out and teach the same things. He was truly the first activist for good that the modern world to this day listens to.
“...worse is we would still have god-kings.....”
Like the last President who was worshiped as a savior
by the jackals in the Democrat Party.
IMHO
The BEST possible outcome would probably have been a world divided between a Rome that never fell and a Chinese empire. Not pleasant.
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