jesus had a bad attitude!

The more you get into the teachings of Jesus, the harder it gets to believe how he could ever be described as a good moral teacher. Most of the stuff he said was at least hardcore challenging, if not outright offensive to half his audience at the time. If he turned up now, I'd probably find myself among the people saying he had a bad attitude. He certainly wasn't trying to tell people what they wanted to hear so he could accumulate followers. Take this for example,

"Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple... ...In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple." [Matthew 20:25-33]

I wonder how many people left after that speech and how many stayed?
He was either a mental case or the Son of God.

As the Son of God its impossible to try and "work out" Jesus or put him into a nice little box that I can fully understand. Of course I can't fully understand God, it would be like an ant being able to understand how a human thinks, feels, acts.

I need to recognise that otherness of God and rejoice about it, because it God was more like me, the world would be in a right mess!