As I read the Biblical accounts of the life of Jesus and the current affairs of Tiger Woods, I have reflected often.
Both individuals received tremendous public attention. There is an incident recorded that Jesus had a difficult time enjoying a meal with his family because word had circulated that he was in town, and so many were coming to him for healing. Surely, the healing was not only physical, which was miraculous enough, but it was also an emotional healing of the inner hurts and wounds that life often brings. (Mark 3:20)
This idea that Jesus was merely a good man is again hard to accept by all that is written about him. Despite all the scrutiny then and over the hundreds of years, we have yet to hear a scandal or a character blemish. Even a good man would have clear, cut character flaws that were noted by critics then or by the many historians who studied and followed his life and the events of the day.
Tiger Woods has been publicly humiliated. There is a certain amount of empathy from this writer. One wonders how many men who have been innately given a voracious sexual appetite would satisfy the constant hunger if presented with attractive women time and time again who wanted to be viewed as special in his eyes. It is easy to throw stones at Tiger, or at President John Kennedy, or President Thomas Jefferson, or the great Benjamin Franklin, or the spiritual leader, Dr. Martin Luther King. It is far more honest to say, but for the 'grace of God go I'.
The scandalous-free life led by the historical Jesus of Nazareth is indeed remarkable. One is forced by sheer logic to ask, was this Jesus simply a good man, or was he more?
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