The Foolishness of Christianity: God in the Toilet!?
   Christians say that Almighty God became a man in the person of Jesus Christ. Now obviously, the lowliness of humanity is far below the great dignity of God. But in particular, could anything be more ridiculous than the idea of God as a man having to go to the toilet? Indeed, if the Bible itself hadn't suggested something even more outrageous, we might not have known it was possible.
   Excuse me for saying it, but the Torah actually gives instructions to the Jews about doing their toilet business, "Designate a place outside the camp where you can go to relieve yourself. As part of your equipment have something to dig with, and when you relieve yourself, dig a hole and cover up your excrement." (Deuteronomy 23:12-13) Of course Jesus and His apostles were Jews, and they knew the Law of Moses. So they knew that outside of the camp was the place of all unclean things. Yet somehow the Bible still seems unafraid to admit that this was the very place that Jesus died! (Hebrews 13:11-12) As if it wasn't shocking enough for the Bible to say that God let His Son die a horrible death on the cross at the hands of mere men, it even claims that Jesus suffered this unthinkable death in Israel's toilet! Can you imagine what Jesus would do if He heard these things being said about Him? Well, you don't have to imagine, because you can see if you look at Jesus' own words in the gospel!
   Once Jesus was talking with some Jewish religious leaders about what makes a man unclean. He said, "Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body [literally: into the latrine]? But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man unclean. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man unclean; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him unclean." (Matthew 15:17-20) In other words, Jesus said that if you think unwashed hands are unclean, or if you think the toilet is unclean, then you should see your own heart! The greatest place of "covered-up excrement" in the world is not outside the camp but inside man's heart!
   No man with a toilet-heart can ever be acceptable to God, and yet that's the kind of heart God sees in mankind across the world. Therefore Jesus was nailed to the cross outside the camp so that His cleansing blood would fall on the most unclean place. Now he calls us to "go to him, outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore." (Hebrews 13:13) To follow the Son of God will bring great shame upon you in this life, but this life is very short anyway, and God is building an eternal city. If you follow Jesus Today outside the camp, He will wash your robe in His pure blood to grant you access into the gates of the city that is forever without shame. (Romans 10:9-11, Zephaniah 3:11) As for those who remain inside the camp for now to avoid the shame of the Savior who is God in the flesh, Jesus has promised to forbid them from His eternal city and instead cast them outside with the dogs. (Revelation 22:14-15, Mark 8:38)
   Does the message of Christianity still appear foolish to many people? Yes, and in fact that was God's plan all along, "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ... But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things-and the things that are not-to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him." (1 Corinthians 1:18, 27) God becoming a man who has to use the toilet is unthinkable weakness. The Son of God using His own blood to cleanse the excrement of man's heart is unimaginable foolishness. Yet God did these very things so that one day every proud and self-righteous man will have to admit to his shame that the greatest heights his own wisdom and strength could ever attain are pitiful compared to the power that God can exert even by using the world's lowest foolishness and weakness as His tools.

Hebrews 13:11-14
The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp. And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood. Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore. For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.

Romans 10:9-11
That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

Zephaniah 3:11
On that day you will not be put to shame for all the wrongs you have done to me, because I will remove from this city those who rejoice in their pride. Never again will you be haughty on my holy hill.

Revelation 7:14, 22:14-15
They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb....Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city. Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Mark 8:38
If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.