"Paul is making me nervous
Paul is making me scared
Walk into this room and swaggers
Like he's God's own messenger
Change the name of my brother
Change the things that he said
Says that he speaks to him
But he never even knew the man
But I'd give my life for him" - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Whenever I hear this song, it reminds me of "The Last Temptation of Christ". Before the movie was released (if you remember) many people were all up in arms about the horrible sacrilegious portrayal of Jesus having sex. This was part of the titular Last Temptation, where Satan shows Jesus the happy, long, and normal life He could live if He just came down from the cross and gave up on the whole saving humanity thing. Christ, of course, resists the temptation. Yes the temptation shows Jesus getting married (twice!), but I thought the most sacrilegious scene was where Jesus met Paul. Paul is preaching in the square about how Jesus died and was resurrected to save the world. When Jesus approaches and says it didn't happen, that he stepped down from the cross, Paul says that it doesn't matter. The "truth" is not what happened, but what Paul says happened. And his dead Christ is more powerful and more important than the living Jesus in front of him.
Paul is making me scared
Walk into this room and swaggers
Like he's God's own messenger
Change the name of my brother
Change the things that he said
Says that he speaks to him
But he never even knew the man
But I'd give my life for him" - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Whenever I hear this song, it reminds me of "The Last Temptation of Christ". Before the movie was released (if you remember) many people were all up in arms about the horrible sacrilegious portrayal of Jesus having sex. This was part of the titular Last Temptation, where Satan shows Jesus the happy, long, and normal life He could live if He just came down from the cross and gave up on the whole saving humanity thing. Christ, of course, resists the temptation. Yes the temptation shows Jesus getting married (twice!), but I thought the most sacrilegious scene was where Jesus met Paul. Paul is preaching in the square about how Jesus died and was resurrected to save the world. When Jesus approaches and says it didn't happen, that he stepped down from the cross, Paul says that it doesn't matter. The "truth" is not what happened, but what Paul says happened. And his dead Christ is more powerful and more important than the living Jesus in front of him.
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