by Paul Cleaver

Created on: February 15, 2010   Last Updated: February 17, 2010

The character of Christ himself lends itself to one that is loving and caring and full of concern for others. A person that takes others well being into account long before he takes into account his own feelings and concerns. So the enemy of such character would tend to be the exact opposite of this type of person. These enemies would revel in their own lifestyle of self interest and lack of any concern for their fellow man. We have had far too many examples of this type of person in our history.  It has been demonstrated that there are thousands upon thousands of people on this planet that attack the very notion of a messiah that came to us some 2010 years ago. These people are as strongly rooted in their belief that the messiah has not yet arrived as we are in the fact that Jesus Christ is the messiah.

The reason that this basis must be stipulated for this article is there can be no discussion of Christianity without discussing its founder Jesus Christ. While Jesus Christ himself was not a Christian he was the foundation upon which the entire Christian belief system was built.   Jesus himself was a member of the Jewish faith. But after his death and subsequent resurrection the Christian movement began to flourish as carried to all pints of the known world by the living apostles and their disciples.

Dishonesty

We are often faced at a very young age with decisions that we have to make that require the original building blocks of that personal moral character we will need when we grow into our pre-teen and teen years. It is often something as simple as responding to a query from an adult with a dishonest response instead of answering their questions with an honest and forthright response that we know is what is required of all honest and trustworthy people of character and integrity.

I remember a challenge when I was a young tyke wherein my parents asked where I found the money to purchase the candy that I came home from the local convenience store with. I remember that I lied to my parents and told them that I had raked leaves for one of our neighbors that lived far enough away that I didn’t think my mom and dad would follow up and check with that neighbor. Boy was I mistaken! I took my ill gotten gains to my bed room in the basement and began to enjoy the sweets that I had stolen from the gas station on the corner when I heard the heavy foot fall that I immediately recognized as my fathers. And when he entered my room he was none too happy,

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