The New Testament contains many examples of Jesus being more disgusted with the self-righteous pharisees (the Religious Right of the period) than the people those Pharisees condemned. It's wrong to say that Jesus accepted the sin of prostitutes, tax collectors, etc. He didn't. But he came to save those who knew they were sinners, not those that felt they were perfect.
I can't remember who said it, but I like the quote: "Satan's masterpiece is the pharisee, not the prostitute."
I think today's Christian Church would do well to focus on their own sin rather than worrying so much about gay people.
The New Testament most definitely does not command that homosexuals be put to death but the Old Testament did. The Bible says that God is "the same yesterday, today, and forever" so how do you account for this change of mind?
For me, the most interesting thing Jesus said about the Old Testament scriptures was "It is written in your law". What did he mean by that? Didn't he know that he was the author of the Old Testament?
ns3 wrote:
For me, the most interesting thing Jesus said about the Old Testament scriptures was "It is written in your law". What did he mean by that? Didn't he know that he was the author of the Old Testament?
I believe you are referring to John, Chapter 10 re. "Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?". If you read the whole chapter, I believe your question will be answered by the Scripture itself.
... Mountaineer
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help. Psalm 146:3
ns3 wrote:
For me, the most interesting thing Jesus said about the Old Testament scriptures was "It is written in your law". What did he mean by that? Didn't he know that he was the author of the Old Testament?
I believe you are referring to John, Chapter 10 re. "Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?". If you read the whole chapter, I believe your question will be answered by the Scripture itself.
... Mountaineer
31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand.
Jesus' mockery of religious hypocrisy is second to none.
But I also see him mocking a fundamentalist interpretation of scripture in those verses.
ns3 wrote:
For me, the most interesting thing Jesus said about the Old Testament scriptures was "It is written in your law". What did he mean by that? Didn't he know that he was the author of the Old Testament?
I believe you are referring to John, Chapter 10 re. "Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’?". If you read the whole chapter, I believe your question will be answered by the Scripture itself.
... Mountaineer
31Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand.
Jesus' mockery of religious hypocrisy is second to none.
But I also see him mocking a fundamentalist interpretation of scripture in those verses.
I think I agree with you re. the mocking, but I'm not quite sure of your definition of "a fundamentalist interpretation of scripture". Does it mean those who take the Scripture literally, a verse at a time, and not necessarily in context? (For example, Revelation 5:6). Could you please define. Thanks.
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no help. Psalm 146:3
