JESUS WOULD FAIL

                                                                    JESUS WOULD FAIL

By Jonas T.  Suizo

From a human point of view, Jesus would absolutely be tagged as a failure. The metrics people use today—seminary checklists, doctrinal purity tests, and the endless gatekeeping of religious scholars—would never give Him a passing grade. But the God-level perspective? Totally different story. Jesus wasn’t here to impress institutions; He came to fulfill the will and pleasure of God, and that mission was never dependent on human approval. If anything, today’s theological “parameters” would label even Jesus and the early believers as a cult, just as Acts 24:5 records the accusation that He was the “ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.” Back then, the movement wasn’t even officially called Christianity. It was just a small, misunderstood group following a man everyone thought didn’t fit the mold.

Imagine Jesus showing up in our time and saying the same things He said before—claiming sonship, unity with the Father, and divine authority. People already struggle with basic transparency; imagine their reaction if He said, “I and my Father are one,” or openly declared Himself the Son of God as in John 10:36 and John 9:35–37. Seriously, modern society would go feral. Worse, many who consider themselves spiritually knowledgeable would be the first to accuse Him of being the Beast or a false prophet, simply because their entire understanding of prophecy and rapture is built on interpretations that have been recycled for generations. The Pharisees did this already: when Jesus spoke truth, they picked up stones. When He said “Before Abraham was, I am,” they tried to erase Him on the spot. Human tendency hasn’t changed. Tell people something beyond their framework, and they’ll cancel you with fire and passion.

This pattern repeats across Scripture. Everyone born through the will of the flesh—Old Testament or New—fell into the same cycle of rejecting the ones God sent. They persecuted prophets, resisted covenant, denied correction, and clung to their traditions over truth. By the time Jesus walked the earth, Israel had already fallen into a long season “without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law” (2 Chronicles 15:3). And honestly, the same energy is alive today. Religious scholars love flexing wisdom, but without the Spirit, the law, or a true teaching priest, all that learning becomes nothing but noise. People are so quick to slap the word “cult” on any group that doesn’t match their preferred flavor of religion—forgetting that by that same standard, early Christianity would’ve flunked every modern test.

At the core of it, this isn’t about labels or theological turf wars. It’s about how people still judge by the flesh—by emotion, by imagination, by intellect—while ignoring the actual power of God. If Jesus came again by His Spirit to renew hearts, cleanse lives, and write His law inwardly, many would reject Him exactly as the Pharisees did. They’d fail Him on their doctrinal exam and condemn the work of God because it doesn’t look like what they expected. And just like before, the ones truly born of water and Spirit would be the ones persecuted by those born only of the will of man.

Humanity keeps looping the same story because people refuse to humble themselves, to seek God with their whole being, or to let go of their own interpretations. They still err—not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God—and in doing so, they would fail Jesus all over again. But the mission of God has never been dependent on human approval. Even if people misjudge Him, misunderstand Him, or label Him wrongly, He still fulfills the will of the Father. Always has, always will.