Pope Francis Speaks to the John 17 Movement at Pentecost Celebration

Do people really think Christianity as intended (if intended), should be so difficult? That it should need herds of people to decipher what is ‘really’ meant within the words of the bible? Do people think that if it (the message) is so important that Jesus/God would have encoded it and enshrouded everything in so much mystery that people throughout the hundreds of years to follow should bicker and disagree and war over it? That one person should call themselves a Christian but deny another the right because they think differently to themselves? Well, all commenters and theologians dissecting the text might think that but the fact that such activity exists, to me denigrates the whole Christian ethos and message. Why the rubik cube type puzzle, with its thickly convoluted double speak message, desperately trying to make words fit? It is what it is. Not what other people say it is.

I think Jesus would be disappointed and think about those money lenders in the temple and wonder why his words that he meant to be so simple, have become so complicated in the mouths of others and impossible for anyone to understand. I think he is probably weeping. I don’t think he meant for people to endlessly discuss what it all meant but rather for people to act on what he said. If it isn’t clear enough, that it doesn’t speak, then that is a failed message and we should move on to what is clear. In his earthly body, Jesus was only human after all. In any event, he doesn’t need anyone to speak for him, or me, or you or anyone…… there is no unity in the church because people are still discussing what the church is and who is welcome in it.