THE GREATEST MEN?
My monkey mind was set spinning last evening by those two redoubtable debaters, Rowan Dean and Ross Cameron, on their ‘Outside’r show, broadcast on Sky News. Why Sky cancelled the evening re-run of their Sunday morning show is beyond me! It is the best TV of the week. Last evening they came up with their opinion of the three acknowledged greatest men who ever lived: Jesus Christ, Socrates and Marcus Aurelius. As you know, I am an avid student of the Bible, and, therefore, fully concur with the duos’ inclusion of Jesus Christ, whom I believe is also a member of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and thus Creator of the World, who took on human flesh.
What I find most intriguing is that Jesus Himself in Matthew 11:11 stated: “Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he”.
I wonder if there is a Primate out there who could expound on this most profound statement?
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
The Thought Provoking Chimp
2 thoughts on “THE GREATEST MEN?”
Interesting that the concepts in the quotes given by Aurelius and Socrates have their parallels in several verses in our Bible. So, what they said can be confirmed as “true” because of these Bible verse parallels.
As for explaining Matthew 11:11…here is a succinct, easily understood explanation from Coffman’s Commentaries on the Bible:-
“Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”
“This is but a continuation of the Saviour’s logic in the preceding verse. Just as John was the greatest of the prophets because of his proximity to Christ, the apostles, and indeed all Christians, are greater than John because they are even closer, being “in Him” as a result of the new birth. Since Christ is Lord, this statement concerning John became the fulfillment of the prophecy that John would “be great in the sight of the Lord” (Luke 1:15). The statement proves that: (1) John was not in the kingdom of Christ, and (2) the kingdom had not then been set up, else John would have been in it. The least in God’s kingdom are greater than John because (1) their sins are forgiven, whereas those of John were merely rolled forward to the cross, and (2) they enjoy full fellowship with Christ in his kingdom.”
Very helpful for a monkey to have such scholarly input! Thanks Paul, Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
Comments are closed.