What Would Jesus Write?

At first I didn't know how to approach this topic. Jesus? What do I know about Jesus? Ironically, as I sat in the study hall and stared across the room, I spotted a girl wearing a WWJD bracelet. "What would Jesus Write?" casually crossed my mind. I laughed. Oh, I crack myself up. But really- what would Jesus write? Well, in order to predict that I'd have to know firstly who Jesus was, secondly what he said, and then derive from that what he believed. Even then, predicting the actions of such a holy man with confidence prove difficult, if not blasphemous and somewhat imposing. He is a symbol, but not a doll whose mouth we can fill with whatever words we choose to.

So who or what is this elusive "Jesus"? Opening my little green New Testament for answers, I was immediately intrigued. As an explanation of the bible, "Christ is its grand subject, our good the design, and the glory of god its end"(3, New Testament). The next page displays a neat index providing the reader answers to all of life's problems. Being most familiar with the Quran, which is very differently in comparison to the Bible layout-wise (but ironically not message-wise), I was intrigued and interested in learning what this powerful little book has to teach.
Now, here I will go off on a bit of a tangent- at this point some "scholarly" individuals may roll their eyes and assume that I will continue to write a testimonial about "finding Christ in my heart" after opening his book once. I'd just like to expound upon the irony of "scholarly" individuals that dismiss religion.
Religion has killed, saved, and remade more people than any other idea to ever pass through a man's mind. By assuming that it is rubbish (after all, god did not create us- science proves we evolved into what we are today), these individuals only prove how ignorant they are. There is a power in this text that we cannot replicate, mostly because it is a text with a history, a text with a culture. And regardless of what we may or may not believe in the field of creationism and evolution, it is undeniable that an individual who is not out to read negative meaning into the Bible will find a set of guiding rules in life and morality. It is a universal message, and Jesus just happens to be a personified messenger. For a fond classmate's love is easier to grasp and remember when he presents us a teddybear to personify it.
And thus, the heart of the first truth I realized- I did know quite a bit about Jesus, as well as what he said. It's just that I call him Hazarat Isa, and he wrote to me in Arabic.

Jesus is a teddybear, relative to love and religion.

I was particularly interested by the series of phrases "Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be filled"(Luke 6:21) but "Woe to you who are full, for you shall hunger"(Luke 6:25). It illustrates an idea which I previously assumed was unique to Muslim society of Quraanic times. Those who were unnecessarily rich were seen as evil, for they failed to share in the interests of society's well-being and the well-being of the poor. Banks and interest were seen as wicked establishments. (This is paralleled in the New Testament when the scribes ask Jesus, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?"(Luke 5:30)).
It's funny how similar it all is once we line it up- those Muslims lived by the words of the Christian Jesus, perhaps better than many Christians in their time period did.

The big difference in Christianity and Islam is the fight over whether or not Jesus is the "Son of God"(Matthew 26:63). I find it irrelevant. I take Jesus' words just as I take Buddha's or Martin Luther King Jr's- words of wisdom, not necessarily a god or a man. We start wars over the speaker's identity, and in the process we forget the words for which he lived and died.

So what WOULD Jesus write? Well, if he had the chance, I would guess he would most probably write the Bible. What would Jesus do? Who knows? I think inspire millions towards a more moral life style would be a good answer there.

P.S. As a side note, I found it interesting that Jesus is depicted multiple times as a father figure.

And although he may not have physically been one, he is a father figure in a completely different way- a father of righteousness and a father to mankind.