Logic:Part 3

Why you never agrue with Jesus!

Frist becuase he is God, and second, Jesus a great agruer. He was a Logical Man and used logic to make his point. The greatest example of jesus’s use of logic is when he laid a logic smack down on the steps of the temple. It was recorded in Matthew 21:23-22:46. There were six battles of the mind that day AND Jesus went six for six. He vanquished them all. First, the Jewish leaders asked Jesus where he received his authority. In response, Jesus gave them a logical dilemma which answered their question and yet left them with nothing they could use against Him. BRILLIANT!

Second, Jesus told three parables with which the Jewish leaders must agree, but in doing so they condemned themselves. He was using a consistency test. STUNNING!

Third, the Pharisees asked Jesus if Roman taxes were lawful, trying to trap Him into angering either the Romans or the common people. Jesus reduced the dilemma to the principal question: What is legitimately Caesar’s, and what is legitimately God’s? The Pharisees knew that they would get into trouble if they pursued that question any further.

Fourth, the liberal, skeptical, (oh so sad u see) Sadducees tried to show how absurd the idea of life after death was by presenting the dilemma of a woman who had seven husbands, one after another, and then died herself. Their question: whose wife would she be in the resurrection? Jesus destroyed their faulty reasoning by citing the Torah (the first five books of the bible- and only ones Sadducees held as true), how marriage plainly did not exist after death. Then he brought the heat with what has to be the most masterful move of the millennium, first millennium that is. Jesus showed from the passage of the burning bush in Exodus that the logical implication of the tense of the verb proved that God still was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Therefore there is indeed life after death. In the world of geeks and bible nuts that was the equivalent a pill driver off the top role for the WWE heavy weight belt and then steeling your girl friend. Some kind of holy smack down and one of the last times the Sadducees argued with Jesus.

Fifth, the Pharisees came again and tried to stump Jesus with a question Jewish theologians had been debating for a long time: "Which is the greatest commandment of the law?" But again, Jesus showed that upon the first command, and the second after it, all the other commands hung. No Jew could disagree.

Sixth, and last of all, Jesus Himself put forth a dilemma –because by this time – who would even want to try to match wits with him. The dilemma that is elegant in its entrapment. Jesus asked how it could be that David spoke of his son, the Messiah, as his Lord. If the Jewish leaders answered, they would have to acknowledge who Jesus was. The only way this could be true was if Christ was both born a son of David but also existed before David – as God the Son. WHAT! YES HE DID! A Jewish scholar of the day would have got the implication – so he practically dared them to call him GOD’S SON!

What a mind our Lord had! He was the smartest man alive and a great logician. We should see the same sharpness of mind. So just remember never argue with jesus! YOU WILL LOOSE!