He would rather you be good than look good.
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Should Christians Be Offended?
In Singapore retailers pulled a line of cosmetics whose tagline "looking good for Jesus" offended Christians. With products promising to "Redeem your reputation and more," the product line included a "virtuous vanilla"-flavored lip balm and a "Get Tight with Christ" hand and body cream, as reported by The Straits Times. Since before Jesus threw the money changers and other vendors out of the temple people have been using religion to hawk their wares. How is using Jesus to sell cosmetics any different?Christians believe angels are the divine messengers of God. Yet angels have been used to sell everything from a baseball team to underwear. Victoria's Secret advertises that you can "give your favorite angel a little piece of heaven" by buying their Dream Angels Heavenly. Who knew Heaven costs the clearance price of $13.99 plus shipping. How is the "looking good for Jesus" line any different than having scantily clad underwear models dressed as angels selling Heaven?
Remember the WWJD bracelets of the 90s? "What would Jesus Do" started out as a reminder to live your life in a way that Jesus would. So what exactly would Jesus do? He would serve God. He would love, help, accept and teach others, according to whatwouldjesusdo.org. This simple idea spawned bracelets, books and t-shirts. Retailers lined up to get a piece of the action. Wouldn't all those that purchased "What would Jesus Do" bracelets and t-shirts want to have the cosmetics that help keep you "looking good for Jesus"?
According to Dictionary.com, sin is a "willful or deliberate violation of some religious or moral principle or any reprehensible or regrettable action." The Bible tells us that there is a dire penalty for sin and that is death. Death means eternal separation from God not just on this earth, but in the life after our physical bodies die. But don't worry you can buy bar soap that can wash away your sins at evolvefish.com. Don't have enough sin? You can buy it at Sin in a box. Buying sin seems a much worse offense than trying to look good for Jesus.
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I had not heard of this before but I have "Wash Away your Sins" Lip Balm in "Monk's Special Reserve" Cheap Red Wine Flavor witht he tag lines: "Handy Salvation for a sinner on the run!", "Redemption in a stick - Rub lips together to boost powerful sin purging action!", and "Re-apply frequently, ecpecially during prolonged sin exposure." If I remember right I got it at a Borders Bookstore in Utah. There was a whole line of products, the lip balm was all I could afford at the time. - Love the article!
If you say "look good for Jesus" one more time...... Seriously, I have tears in my eyes. You're hilarious!
very interesting i never heard of this, this read has some great points here thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had not heard of this cosmetic line before now. You raise some thought provoking issues!
I hadn't heard of this case, and it blew my mind! Your article was very informative, and brought up many good, strong points. Great!
Hey, you changed your photo. :)
I agree with the article great work
Intriguing. Mixing cosmetics with Jesus seems like a marketing ploy of questionable taste to me and certainly wouldn't appeal to every buyer. I don't know why a cosmetics manufacturer would want to tie cosmetics to Jesus and not all buyers. This is not the same as publishing Bibles or a specific version of Bible. So I find it baffling, to say the least. Also, I think this could repel people and turn them away from exploring Christianity, if they were starting to be interested, so there is that danger.
Never heard of this product, but it turns me off. It has nothing to do with religion, so why involve religion in it? Thanks for enlightening me
Before we were married, my wife once said she chose a business from the yellow pages based on the ichthys in their advertisement. I tried to point out that this was wrong, but I only ended up offending her. :-(
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