Posts Tagged ‘Matthew 9’

Was Jesus an optimist or a pessimist?

Surely He was an optimist, right? After all… isn’t that the more “desirable” of the two possibilities? Being God and all, He must have been whatever is considered superior. Our American culture values the extravert and the optimist. And there’s a Christian sub-culture that teaches that all Christians should be optimists. (“Because of the hope that we have…”)

But I don’t think so. Rather, I contend that Jesus was the one and only person who could be a dead-center realist.  Read More