I'm a Refugee

Jesus was raised as a refugee in a refugee family because God wanted him to be able to suffer; Jesus' suffering would help him be able to relate to the majority of the downtrodden population and would therefore make him a more effective leader. Being a refugee, Jesus probably lived in constant fear and despair. These things shaped who Jesus would become. He taught to have no fear, and not to despair, because God would always be there to help. Being a refugee also helped Jesus to see the faults in his society, mainly with the class system. He wanted change to make life better for the poor so nobody would have to suffer like he did. Jesus experienced firsthand the unfairness of being part of a poor majority. If Jesus had been born rich, would he really have been able to relate to the people he preached to? Would they listen to him? I do not think that they would have listened to the preachings of a rich man because they would have assumed that Jesus did not know the magnitude of their sufferings, which would probably be true had Jesus been born with money. Being a refugee, considered the bottom of the low class, helped Jesus to want to change the way things were going. It also made his mission more effective, as he was able to relate to his audience and get them to listen. Without Jesus having been a refugee, there would not be a Christian religion in existence today.