Question:  Would the words of Jesus be considered politically incorrect today?

Answer:  Absolutely!  When you read God’s Word, the Bible, you’ll see that some of the things Jesus said would be considered politically incorrect today.

First, keep in mind that everything we say today may be subjected to being filtered through the test for political correctness.  Our words can potentially be recorded by anyone’s smart phone and posted on various social media sites and viewed by thousands of people in mere minutes.  As a result, our comments can easily and quickly be  judged by those who hear them.  This has happened to many people over the last few years.  Their words have been used against them because  they were not saying what was politically correct.

Therefore,  knowing how someone’s words can cause  an uproar among the people, hearing some of the words of Jesus would also cause a controversy.  For example,  in Matthew 19:4-6, Jesus says, “Have you not read that He who made them in the beginning made them male and female, and said for this reason man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?  So then, they are no longer two but one flesh.  Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” (NKJV)  Here, Jesus is defining marriage as being between one man and one woman, as God, the Creator of marriage, intended.  Defining marriage this way has definitely become politically incorrect today.  The US Supreme Court will be making a decision on the definition of marriage soon.  Depending on how the Court rules, legally defining marriage in the traditional way may become incorrect.

Additionally, in John 14:6, Jesus says, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.  No one comes to the Father except through me.”   With these words and in other scriptures, Jesus makes it clear that He is the only way to God the Father and heaven.  Believers know that Jesus does not lie. The politically correct crowd wants you to say that there are many ways to heaven but that is not what Jesus says in His Word.  These words would not be acceptable as tolerant speech today.  The politically correct would prefer they not be used in public speech  because they would see them as being hateful.

In considering all these things, Believers must remember that having their beliefs branded as hateful should not come as a surprise.  Jesus said in John 15:18, “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you.”  Columnist Janie B. Cheaney wrote a great piece on the “hate” label being put on Bible-believing Christians today.  Check it out in the February 2013 issue of World Magazine. http://www.worldmag.com/2013/02/haters_and_the_hated.

Politically correct or not, Christians should remember that the words of Jesus will always be true.  Believers will have everlasting life because we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Savior.  Read John 3:16.  His Holy Spirit lives in us.  He is with us always!  As we celebrate Holy Week and the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we can rejoice for He is risen!  Praise the Lord!

Helpful Links:

Focus on the Family   http://www.focusonthefamily.com

Crown Financial Ministries   http://www.crown.org

The Christian Broadcasting Network   http://www.cbn.com

World Magazine       http://www.worldmag.com