Could It Be… Satan?

Back in the 3rd hay day of Saturday Night Live, Dana Carvey had a character named the Church Lady. She had a cable access show called Church Chat. She/he always had a prim and proper dress on and a funny smirk that just added to the humor. There was always some moral dilemma that the church lady would become passionately embroiled and then the blame for the culprit causing that sort of activity. The catch phrase was always, “Could it be Satan?” His face was always pinched and his lips pursed when he uttered that phrase.

As a Christian, I am supposed to live my life as Christ teaches. The Da Vinci Code (in theaters now) has raised questions about the divinity of Christ by saying he was married and had a daughter. That does not raise any issues for me in that he was the son of God put on Earth to experience and feel what us mortals feel. Is it beyond the realm that he was married and had children? If it was God’s plan then what is the issue? Does it in any way diminish the complete change in thought, brought about by His teaching, on how we are to treat each other? It is the Man along with the teachings and actions that Christians should be responding to, not the side show attractions that seem to pop up when ever someone has an issue with divinity.

I have read the teachings of Christ and found that they are not an easy path to follow. He says to love one another as I have loved you. His actions demonstrate that we are to seek out those who we find morally reprehensible and break bread with them (which in his day meant tax collectors but for us it would probably be lawyers). He demonstrates that no one has the moral platform from which to throw the first stone. This is just a small list of how he talked the talk and walked the walk. For those who lived after Him and interpreted Jesus’ word or through a vote determined his status to the Christian faith, they are only interpreting or in some cases clarifying for their own purposes. The life of Jesus stands by itself as the guide line on how to live your life. Any other attempts to shed Jesus in a different light would certainly give the Church Lady an opportunity to ask, “Could it be Satan?”

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Cobb