Jesus is not held to Christian law like most Christians think but Jewish law! Christianity did not even exist when Jesus was supposedly alive. The messiah must be sinless to be a perfect sacrifice according to the law! Jesus himself states that even thinking a bad thought is a sin, so by his own words he condemns himself every time he gets angry at anyone.

Show me ONE knowledgeable Christian! LOL. I do understand your point that Christians are hard headed and think their god can hold humanity to laws that their god cannot keep himself!

@IpraiseMYSELF Interesting point! If Christians reject the Jewish law for the Messiah, then they reject Jesus as the Messiah or Christ.

True, Jesus' disciples think he is justified to sin because it is his house yet the fact remains that for Jesus to be the messiah like Christians claim he must follow all of the Jewish laws and he did not. Zeal for your house is obviously not justification for breaking the law! Furthermore these businessmen were there providing a service to people who needed animals to sacrifice. No one at the temple cared about it except for Jesus! If he was not the Christ then what right did he have to say anything? If you think he was the Christ then why is it ok for god to sin but not anyone else? Is god holding the human race to a standard he can not keep himself?

@IpraiseMYSELF I think Christians expect Jesus to be Buddhist-like in his composure. I think they also think Jesus should be judged by our law, but whether he sinned or not would be judged by Jewish law. Considering how eager the authorities were to put a stop to his preaching, I think they never saw a case in what happened in the temple. True, sales needed to be made to make the temple economy work, but going by Jesus’ words, they had taken over the temple and made it into a den of thieves.

@brentan Jesus is a thief because he robs people of their self worth by his message that we are all sinners and need him to be whole again. Jesus didn't even exist but the words that people have put with his name are causing people to become slaves to a religion that must be destroyed in order for humanity to move on from religious persecution and war! Jesus and what he stands for is not love but hate.

@IpraiseMYSELF Well, I would criticise the passive-aggressive nature of Christianity in the way Nietzsche describes it but I don't think this is relevant to the discussion of what happened in the temple.

I don't think there is a real Jesus. Is the Book of Thomas about gnostic Christianity?

@brentan - It was found in a Coptic tomb in Egypt.

The councils of Nicea and Ankara edited what could and could not be considered canon scripture and attempted to burn anything that did not fit with the Constantine view in force in Rome.
Fortunately the Gnostics manage to save many of their texts from the barbaric actions of the bishops and preserved the alternate view of the Jesus legends.