I know you are just furthering what this world's religions have taught you, and you genuinely believe what you just posted. And it is doubtful, as Jesus declares, that you will be persuaded of anything different.
Nevertheless, because of Love for the brethren, I would like to share with you and those reading along, the error in this popular religious philosophy of this world.
Sound familiar? Does it feel a little patronising? Perhaps you want to try again in a manner that sees your brethren holding scripture and Christ to the highest regard over blaming people to be against Christ and his teachings (that is what philosophies of the world means doesn't it). Sure we can disagree but don't do this... It's derogatory and undermining and has no place in these forms nor does it speak well to your character or strength of position when you need to open this way.
I won't engage these comments further if not corrected.
My comments were from the heart of a man who was once deceived into believing, the same as you, that Jesus, in
Matt. 5, was discouraging men from trusting the Holy Scriptures "
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:" by claiming that The Words of God Jesus said to "live by" were not sufficient in revealing God's Righteousness. Implying that everyone that existed before Matt. 5, could not know God's righteousness.
I wasn't making stuff up about your stated philosophy, you made your philosophy perfectly clear, and I have heard of it for decades, and I was responding to what you actually taught.
Christ does quote from 10 but in a diminutive way, "You have heard that it was said to those of old" then goes on telling us a better way. So he tells us an older way, then shows us a better way, that better way is uniquely from Christ saying "But I say..." this creates a contrast between the ways of the old (the law) with the ways of Christ, showing Christ's way is better. Better than what? Better than the law.
I didn't want to accuse you of purposely promoting falsehoods about Jesus, I didn't believe you would do such a thing, any more than I did, when I believed it. I didn't mean to offend you and my comments were not meant to be patronizing. However, I can see where a teacher might be offended by them, and I should have chosen my words more carefully.
I truly apologize for my manner, And should have been more careful in my selection of words, and will take extra caution in any further engagement, to pick my words more carefully.
I too, like you, was taught this by the religions of this world God placed me in and believed it, and promoted it, for many years, that Jesus came to destroy God's Laws and bring HIS own Laws, "A better way"..
I was taught this very thing, and believed it, because I was taught
not to believe Moses and the Prophets.
But when I started reading the Bible for myself, this popular religious philosophy started to fall apart.
Jesus said to "Live by" every Word of God. HE said, "
And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
But according to "Many" who come in Christ's Name, Jesus is teaching men not to hear God and the Prophets He sent, because Jesus has another way, a better way. As if HE wasn't the "Word of God who became flesh" in the first place.
But this world's religions were teaching to opposite, and were pitting Jesus against His Father who sent Him, in large part, by quoting parts of Matt. 5.. So I studied Matt. 5, apart from the influence of this world's religions, and found that the "Them of Old Time" wasn't God and the Prophets HE sent at all. They were the fathers of the Pharisees who had corrupted the Priesthood Covenant with Levi, and, as God inspired Malachi to write,
according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been "partial in the law".
And because I love the brethren and want to warn them about this popular philosophy, I posted for you the truth of Matt. 5, concerning who the "Them of Old Time" truly was. Not based on my opinion, but based on what is actually written.
That the "Them of Old Time" was NOT God and the Prophets HE sent, but the corrupt Priests of Old Time, who Isaiah, Jeremiah, Malachi, Ezekiel, etc., warned about over and over and over, whose philosophies the Pharisees and scribes were promoting, that were partial in the Law. Do the study yourself, and you too, if you are seeking truth and not justification, will find the same thing.
If my manner offended you, I truly apologize. But if it prompts you or anyone else to "Do the Study" for themselves, as Everything
Jesus said in Matt. 5, HE also said as the Word of God.
Prov. 6:
24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. 25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
