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 | What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes? |
Primarily, Jesus was on the topic of Repentence and forgiveness which was preached to the jews. He confirmed that John the Baptist was indeed a righteous man, but the Jews who also presumed to be highly righteous neither believed John, nor repented from their sins as John demanded. John`s message was: Repent, and be baptised, so that you will be forgiven, but the Pharisees, in their own righteousness neither repented, nor were they forgiven. Those who repented, and found forgiveness were the so called `rejects of society`- i.e: the tax-collectors and the prostitutes. These were people who earned their living using corrupted means or morals, and so were considered as disgraced humans in society. The tax collectors, and prostitutes found no love, no recognition, no honour, no acceptability in the world of righteousness. No wonder the message of Jesus appealed to such marginalised sector of the society. Jesus won them back, and restored dignity to them. A good example was the short taxcollector called Uncle Zack. By: Robert Ochen-Chagara
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 | What made Jesus` teaching so attactive to tax collectors and prostitutes? |
As we all know, Jesus Christ ?the most humble, the omnipotent, Omnipresent and omniscience was preaching ?come ye unto me all those that are labor and heavy laden, and I will give you rest? repent and be converted for the kingdom of God has come to you, whosoever come to me I will not cast him out, the taxes collectors are listening to this announcement, the prostitutes are listening to this humble man; like those prostitutes, this time they might be rejected by this self-righteous people, thank God there is good news for them ?whosoever come to me I will not drive him out' another thing that move me not only those people is that; word of Almighty God, He said, ?I will use the foolish, to confound the wise? now there is hope for the hopeless, also ?I will have mercy on whom I will' praise God for his love and his grace for us.By: Paul Godswill
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