Who Do You Say I Am
Who Do You Say I Am?
Who do you say I am, and who am I to you?
Is the resurrection so very important to you?
Am I such a genius in my deeds, so futuristic,
That you cannot vindicate me by them?
The Roman government felt threatened by me,
Because I had medical techniques in my hand,
For all for the first time, such that I did stand.
Jesus never called himself god ever,
Not ever, in any way at all;
But believed in societal stability so much,
That he considered the government officials sane,
To judge and do with him as they saw fit,
So as to reconstruct their land as best they could,
Such that their allegation that he was god stood.
When Jesus replied to Caiaphus the Roman judge,
Upon the question concerning whether or not he was god,
He just said “You said it,” your term, not mine,
Yours is the discernment, and not my frown;
And when he asked Peter “Who do you say that I am?”
He only reckoned that a personal view was inevitable,
When there’s such a fracas all around, a kerfuffle.
Who Jesus is today doesn't matter any more,
And who the living Christ is to you has no importance,
Since Jesus is dead and not relevant;
But it may help to know who he was back then;
He was a doctor who treated the sick,
Those in need rather than those who had money,
Such that he made life and their lives a lot more sunny.
Common English Bible used.
Piece for Richard Lamoureux’s Contest, Who do you think I am?, September 2015
Title of poem: Imagine if you can
Lne: My Savior brings such comfort to me
I believe that you believe in Jesus, Richard, as your saviour, so who you are will partly be about who Jesus is, so my poem talks about Jesus. I think that understanding Jesus is different from being religious and going to church, and that the truth about Jesus can be worked out historically, given a certain amount of thought. As long as who Jesus was is with the church, you’ll always be a dreamer maybe, but I believe that anyone can read the Bible or the Gospels for themselves, without contemporary church dogma in mind, and get an apparently clear view of him using an historical context. Jesus the man never existed but a medical man must've if we are to respect literary integrity. I think his death and his own view of himself pertain to the problem, and would enable politicians and teachers to stop bad Christian fundamentalism and to stop the spread of the Islamic State. But can I just say and remind people that I am an atheist.
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