"If Not Good - Not God."

Continued from previous post...

I am posting selections from the book, "Christ, Christianity and the Bible," by I.M Haldeman. He writes so beautifully of Jesus' life; I just wanted to share it with you. This is continued from my previous post:

Police officers, sent to arrest him as a disturber of the peace, found him in the midst of the people, speaking words that hushed their tumult, quieted their murmurings and gave them rest; and the officers returning to them who sent them said, "Never man spake like this man."

Pilate's wife dreamed a troubled dream of him, and sent word to her husband not to lay hands on him - seeing that he was a just man. Three times before heaven and earth - in a testimony that still echoes through infinite spaces, and is heard by listening worlds - Pilate himself proclaimed, "I find no fault in this man."

He lifted up his voice against sin and unrighteousness.
Against nothing did he so much speak as against religious hypocrisy. Nowhere, in any record, is language so terrible, so penetrating, so hot, so full of the flame of fire and scorching analysis, in its denunciation of those who on the outside were like whitened sepulchers, but on the inside were full of dead men's bones and corruption.

Nowhere, outside the twenty-third chapter of Matthew, does language fall with such tremendous vibration of thunderous indignation and the accent of aroused and fully angered justice. "You serpents," you generation of vipers," are some of the phrases; and the words, "fools," "blind hypocrites," mingle again and again with the far-sounding, judicial menace, "Woe, woe unto you."

Jesus seemed to be dominated and controlled by one idea - the idea of God. The God thought held and moved him. He could not go anywhere, see anything, or utter the shortest discourse, that he did not in some fashion connect it with the infinite Father. (Here the author reminds of us the parables of the sower and shepherd etc.)

God! God! God! this was the supreme note of his life.