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The Man Abides

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"If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love."  John 15:10 Recently, I was thinking about the movie, The Big Lebowski , and how much I had enjoyed it. When it first came out, I was not yet born again and I smoked a lot of weed and had a tight-knit group of misfit friends like Lebowski so I found the movie to be both relatable and very funny. It also seemed somehow mysterious and profound. In part this is due to the main character habitually smoking marijuana, which of course encourages viewers to smoke it also and watch the movie in that state. Generally speaking, things seem more mysterious and profound when a person is stoned. As a C hristian, I still respect that it is well-made and I get that it is kind of anti-cool, which to many appears as cool. I am grieved that t he character of Jesus, a Latino bowler, is a pedophile. I understand that Jesus is a fairly common Latino name and t