Who's knocking?

I have a cousin that I would classify as an evangelical Christian. She frequently forwards to me Christian theme emails that I generally delete without opening. Recently I got one that I did open (God talking to me?) and it was basically a picture of a Jesus-like figure knocking on a door. (The picture is in this blog.) I noticed that one of the comments from one of the other recipients was something like “I would love to have Jesus knocking on my door.” The whole concept of a Jesus-like person knocking on a door intrigued me.

First of all we don’t know what this Jesus person looked like or if he really existed despite what the evangelicals say. All the paintings and statues of Jesus are idealized and romantic depictions. They are simply the figment of the artist’s imaginations. So Jesus could have been a short, dumpy, balding, ugly guy as well as the viral, young bearded stud we seemed to be accustomed to. So if a short dumpy guy in a robe of some sort comes up to you and says “I’m Jesus” how many people would take him to be Jesus? Even evangelicals might not embrace him.

I was thinking this might be a good stunt for one of those “Candid Camera” shows. I, however, would not want to be the person playing the Jesus role. He might be looking down at the barrel of a .22 by some offended evangelical. You know how loving and accepting they can be!