Francis Drake
Returning adventurer.
- Apr 14, 2013
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- UK-Independence-Party
I love the way you pacifists selectively use scriptures, like this one that gets repeatedly quoted.Pacifism, or rather non-resistance, as taught by Jesus in Matthew 5:39, is clearly taught and promoted in the New Testament contrary to your quotes.
Matt5v39But I tell you not to resist the evil person. Instead, whoever shall strike you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.
You conveniently avoid the likes of these ones though.-
Matt5v29And if your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you. For it is better for you that one of your members should perish and not that your whole body should be cast into Gehenna. 30And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and cast it from you, for it is better for you that one of your members should perish and not that your whole body should depart into Gehenna.
If you insist on verse 39, then you have no choice but also accept verses 29 and 30!
I presume that you have a guide dog, and someone else is posting on your behalf, because if you are not a liar but honest, then you will have plucked your eyes out and sliced your hands off.
After all, nobody is perfect and the punishment for that imperfection is dictated in verses 29 and 30 isn't it?
Whether you have plucked your eyes out or not, the fact of the matter is that you are the blind leading the blind in your posts.
Read the verse that precedes verse39 and you will realise that Jesus is setting an impossible target because of the self righteous Pharisees, and your thinking is exactly the same as the Pharisees.
Matt5v20For I say to you that unless your righteousness shall abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall never enter into the kingdom of the heavens.
Jesus then lists what is required for self perfection, much of it thought crime! I suggest you read that list to see how perfect you are, because you cannot just take one verse out for your pet theologies.
The last verse should be a wake up call.-
Matt5v48You shall be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.
Are you perfect my friend, coz that's what's at stake here?
If you haven't plucked your eyes out and chopped your arms off, then you must be claiming self perfection.
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