Obama Doesn't Know Much About Jesus

       At this year's "Easter" Prayer Breakfast, Obama let his mouth run as usual, showing his ignorance of the Bible.


“For like us, Jesus knew doubt,” Obama said. “Like us, Jesus knew fear. In the garden of Gethsemane, with attackers closing in around him, Jesus told His disciples, ‘my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.’”
Obama went on:
“He fell to his knees, pleading with his Father, saying, ‘If it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.’ And yet, in the end, he confronted his fear with words of humble surrender, saying, ‘If it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done,’” Obama said. “So it is only because Jesus conquered his own anguish, conquered his fear, that we’re able to celebrate the resurrection."


      According to CNS News.com, Denny Burk, an associate professor of biblical studies at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, believes Obama erred in ascribing both fear and doubt to Jesus.
“Does the Bible really teach that Christ had doubts and fears on the same order as our own? The Bible in fact never teaches such a thing, and it diminishes Christ’s achievement to suggest otherwise,” Burke wrote on his blog, which was later reported in Baptist Press and on Townhall.com.
“In the Bible, doubt and fear are sins. In fact, Jesus Himself describes doubt as the opposite of faith (Matt. 14:31; 21:21; Mark 11:23),” Burk wrote. “In very explicit terms, Jesus himself commands his disciples not to ‘fear’ those who persecute them (Matt. 10:26; 28, 31). No less than seven times, Jesus himself commands his disciples not to be ‘anxious’ about their lives (Matt. 6:25, 31, 34; Mark 10:19; 13:11; Luke 12:11, 22.”
Burk goes on to write, “To say that Jesus had doubts and fears is to make him into a transgressor. But that is not at all the biblical depiction of Jesus. Yes, Jesus can sympathize with all of our weaknesses and, yes, he was tempted in all things as we are. But He did it without sin! (Heb. 4:15)”


      In Fact, the cup to which Jesus referred did not refer at all to his upcoming capture, torture and cruxifiction. The Cup to which Jesus referred contained the shame and disgrace of all mankind's sin which Jesus was about to bear, the Cup allowed those sins to be nailed to the Cross via his earthly body. Our sins and shame and disgrace and regret and nastiness, things Jesus had never experienced first hand because He had never committed a sin, were in that cup. Every ugly, nasty, perverse thing I have ever done was seen by Jesus in the Garden that night, that was what he saw in the cup. As Abominable as the shame was Jesus drank and took it upon himself to spare us. The Greatest act of love ever conceived. He had never been separated from His Father, yet His Father who cannot look on sin was about to let him die on the Cross bearing sins and shame Jesus didn't deserve. God would have to turn His back on His Son and not look those last moments as the Sin of the whole world was transferred to Jesus' shoulders.
      No, Jesus who Created the Universe had no fear of what His Creation could do to Him, in His Omnipresence he knew the outcome. Jesus had no doubt, He had already seen the New Jerusalem coming down from the Heavens, He was already seated on his Everlasting Throne in His mind's eye. Jesus doesn't experience doubt or fear, only non-believers or those with little Faith deal with those emotions, only those of other religions or no belief in the Omnipotent God, The One True God, The God of Israel, The Creator, Jesus!