"Patient, kind, disinterested", Justin Bieber "tries to be modeled on Jesus"
The Canadian singer, united since July with the model Hailey Baldwin, takes his first steps as a married man. He took the opportunity to recall on Instagram his religious fervor and his desire to come closer to God.
The time when Edith Piaf went to meditate at the tomb of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was believed to be a long time ago. Yet in the world of music, the bench of believers welcomes a superstar: Justin Bieber. And he wants to let people know. In an Instagram post published Saturday, November 24, the interpreter of One time recalled the efforts he is making to approach the model of Jesus Christ.
Justin Bieber wished his fans a Happy Thanksgiving. He took the opportunity to describe his experience as a married man. “Relationships are tough and love never easy, but thank you Jesus for showing me the way!” Writes Justin Bieber, who recently married model Hailey Baldwin. A photograph of pines in the snow gives a certain mysticism to this profession of faith.
Thanksgiving is a very popular holiday in North America, initially religious. A “thanksgiving” in thanks for the fertility and happiness brought last year. Justin Bieber's Christianity is not a discovery. At the Guardian, he had already said in 2010, in the early hours of his celebrity, to pray "two to three times a day". When he was younger, he was enrolled in a French-English bilingual establishment, the Jeanne Sauvé Catholic School in Stratford, Canada.
"Every day is a new learning where I try to take a model on him, patient, kind, disinterested ... I still have a way to go!", Continues the 24-year-old singer on Instagram, with great humility. And to conclude: "But the grace of God is sufficient!". Theologically, this last exclamation is not trivial. Without knowing it, Justin Bieber confesses that in the 17th century, during the quarrel of "sufficient grace and effective grace", he would have taken up the cause of the Jesuits against the Jansenists. Like them, the interpreter of What Do You Mean? defends that man is saved by nature, taking the risk of diminishing the role of God.
In 2015, he also decided the question of the liturgy: “You don't have to go to church to be a Christian. Just as if you're going to eat at Taco Bell, that doesn't make you a Taco ”. When will we see an exegesis of Justin Bieber's theological work?
