text: The idea that Christ's words should mean one thing to one culture at a given time and something else to another culture at another time is so absurd it makes your head spin.  Yet that is what some "intellectuals" pretend to believe.  I say "pretend," because I doubt whether, in their bones, they actually believe this piffle.  The fact is, being a Christian is damn hard.  Christ experienced firsthand and even foresaw what is happening now --- His supposed faithful trying to alter his very words because they're  too hard to take.  They can't take Jesus' words; they can't take the truth.  He knew this would happen, hence: "So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold,I am going to vomit you out of My mouth."