What do you think of boxing from a Christian perspective?

Question

On one hand, boxing is just a sport. On the other hand, I am not entirely sure what Jesus would say about it. It takes a violent means of self-defense for an equally violent world, and makes entertainment of it. I've been ambivalent for years.

Answer 1

You can say boxing is a sport and yes it is.   Boxing is dangerous just like football and auto racing and other sports.    Wars were fought by Christians.   Life is many things but to find a christian perspective is a waist of time because people are people and they will tell you many things.

   Would Jesus box, or did Jesus box?   Of course he did not.   I don't feel that there is a one true Christian perspective about boxing.   Only Jesus has the true answer.

   I do feel that boxing gloves should have more padding so that peoples brains are not destroyed.

Answer 2

Bloody h**l!!! Look little "happy clapper", it's twats like you that drag boxing down with all of this "god said" bollocks!

If you don't like it, don't watch it, simple! Stop asking dumb *** questions and have the balls to form your own views!

Answer 3

Jesus just wants us to love one another. You never see athletes congradulate eachother and hug like two fighters after a match. I started boxing when I got kicked out of school for fighting and had to do seventh grade over at a Christian school where every wendsday for p.e. we would have boxing. It has kept me out of a lot of trouble. your body is a temple you should learn to protect it. boxing isn't about getting hit, it's learning how not to get hit.

Answer 4

most of the christian denominations support the idea of self defence at every level and military skills used in defence.

What the big guy himself thinks of it? Who knows.

You only box those who consent, so that's no different from any sort of competition. And we do compete all the time in life. Even for women which is a natural instinct god gave us.

As to the self defence aspect, I don't think he would blame anyone for learning to defend themselves.

Answer 5

its not as bad as wwe or ufc, but from a christian standard it certainly isen't the greatest sport.....most sports arent

Answer 6

well many a christian have placed a bet on boxing.. but look at it this way.. it is an honest living..., very profitable.. more to tith huh?

Answer 7

I think you answered your own question when you wrote that boxing is a sport. Evander Holyfield, George Foreman (he became a Christian well before his comeback), Marvis Frazier all come to mind. Pro football is pretty violent, and you've always had dedicated Christian guys star in the NFL. Christianity is so much a matter of the heart and the spirit that whatever endeavor that a man/woman chooses to engage in is really secondary. A person who is athletically gifted and has a competitive/warrior spirit might just engage in a combat sport for a living or for recreation, but this will have nothing to do with their spiritual and ethical life lived towards their fellow man, and before Christ.

Answer 8

When Christ threw the money changers out of the temple, He did it physically, with violence, and taught a lesson about defiling "His Fathers temple".  The lesson here is that, contrary to P.C. thinking, Christ was not as much a pacifist as critics and fundamentalists (Christian or otherwise) would have you believe.

Boxing is a sport, violent yes, but still a sport.  Christ was/is concerned with much more significant things.  As much as I would like to tell the rest of the world that "it will be all right", and "it's o.k,", the truth is (according to Christian doctrine at least) that Christ isn't coming back to forgive sinners, he is coming back as a judge, to punish all wrongdoers and to judge the righteous as well.  This is not the action of a pacifist.  The mistake non-Christians make is that they think we will be judged on our sins, or lack thereof, and this is not true.  God forgives sins, and remembers them no more.  We are to be judged on how good of a steward we were in relation to serving God.  That is an important point of divergence between Christianity and the rest of the worlds religions.  

Christ would be cool with boxing, I wouldn't have been surprised if He wouldn't have laced up the gloves and spar a few rounds with the apostles in their free time had the opportunity arose.