We are continuing our What in the World Part 2 series where we answer your questions about the Bible in an in depth setting. We also encourage you to check our website www.ourelement.org/blog for more What in the World questions that we answer in written form. Today’s question comes from a book that was on the New York Times bestseller list called, “ZEALOT, The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” written by Reza Aslan. In the book ZEALOT the author makes the claim that most of what we understand about Jesus is false and that Jesus wasn’t the savior of the world, He was simply a zealot that the early church deified. The question that was asked is, “Was Jesus a Zealot?”
What in the World is all about those things in the bible that makes us scratch our heads and say, “what in the world?” Like when Jesus says, “Hate your father and mother,” or the Apostle Paul says not to “touch a woman,” it should make us ask, “What in the world is that there for?”
During this series we will look at some of Element’s “What in the World” questions while also giving you a chance to fill out some 3X5 cards on Sundays or an online form here, to ask us your own “What in the World” questions. Next summer (2017) we will revisit this series and answer the questions that you ask us on those 3X5 cards. This is all in an effort to help us understand that when we run across things in the bible that are hard, there are still answers and we can trust God as we live on mission with Him in the world.
