The MSM (main stream media) is not known for its fidelity to the truth. What at one time was straight up objective reporting is now nothing more than opinion masquerading as facts.
Glenn Reynolds over at Instapundit is known for saying, “Think of the media as Democratic Party operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense.” He recently began using this one, too: “Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation aimed at normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.”
In other words, you really can’t trust the press. Case in point: Don Lemon of CNN who casually claims that Jesus Christ “was not perfect” while here on earth.
While I don’t know what Don means by “perfect,” it seems clear from the context—he’s comparing Jesus’ alleged imperfections with the imperfections of our Founding Fathers—that he means Jesus screwed up. He failed in living a “perfect,” sinless, life.
But that is incorrect; the Bible does not “admittedly” present Jesus as imperfect. It teaches the exact opposite.
When I embedded the Twitter feed above, there were 366,300 views. His show, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, pulls 1,565,000 viewers. That’s nearly 2 million people who heard his false representation of Jesus Christ.
So let me set the record straight by looking at what the Scriptures teach.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21)
Someone who was sinful could not take on our sin; he had to have been perfectly holy to do that.
For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. (Hebrews 4:15)
To be tempted is not sinning; to give in to temptation is sinning.
Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. (1 John 3:4-5)
There is no sin in Jesus Christ. If there is no sin, then … he’s perfect.
Such a high priest [Jesus] truly meets our need—one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens. (Hebrews 7:26)
If Jesus is “holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners,” then he cannot have been “not perfect.”
Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” (Mark 1: 23-24)
Even the evil spirits recognized his holiness.
To say that Don Lemon committed journalistic malpractice is a fair assessment. If he’s going to use Jesus as a moral example to disparage the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the least he could do is get the story straight. He just misinformed 2 million people.
But as I said at the top, most journalists don’t do the hard investigative work to report the news. It’s mostly uninformed opinion, as this humorous take down of “Mr. Como” shows.