Um, No.

Todd wrote this post about a new manga version of the Bible that an Anglican priest wannabe has written to make the Scriptures hip and dangerous. Specifically, he wants to present Jesus as being "a hard guy, seeking revolution and revolt, a tough guy.”

I commented that the last thing on Earth Jesus was seeking was revolution and revolt. I want to develop that comment here.

Jesus gets presented this way all the time, especially in youth groups and in the emergent-kinda groups which develop after the youth group guys go to college. Thousands of youth meetings and camps called Revolution!™ happen across the country.

The problem is that Jesus came to restore that which was corrupted, to put down the powers which were in revolt, and to establish God's Law which had been made of no effect by those who perverted it.

In His Church, He began the overthrow of those principalities and powers which had tried to place themselves above the Lord. The Apostles and their followers took those against which they were pitted down slowly, methodically, and systematically. Where the Church has won Her great victories, it's been done in that way.

And it is in exactly that way that Jesus is spreading His reign in the Earth. All of His enemies are being made into His footstool. He's been subduing them in a steady, most un-revolutionary fashion for going on 2000 years now.

Jesus is seeking regeneration and reformation, not revolution. He doesn't simply wipe out the old order and bring in the new. He changes the old into the new gradually and patiently. Y'know, like yeast through the lump.

It's all because He is so very kind.