Matthew 7-8
Nov. 11th, 2010 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfpurplemoon posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
wolfbiblemoonWe should not judge others without considering our own faults first, seems reasonable. Also, treat others as we would expect to be treated, again also reasonable. These make far better commandments rather than all that stuff that is usually called the commandments. Do unto others is the basic rule of morality, you don't want to die, be a slave, have your stuff taken, be tortured, live in fear, or be attacked in any way, so therefore don't do them to others. It's simple, obvious and you don't need religion to know it's right.
All that good is sort of ruined with a promise that if you ask God you will receive and if you seek him you will find him, so no God-believer ever went hungry, lost a child or died in desperation?
False prophets are as dangerous and deceitful as a wolf in sheep's clothing. But you won't spot them by their badly fitted woollen jackets but by their bad fruit. Can't we choose a metaphor and stick to it?
The crowds are thoroughly amazed at Jesus' speech about the wisdom of building a house on rock versus a foolish house built on sand, I suppose they are amazed because sand is about all they have round there.
Jesus wanders about healing people, including a servant who he heals without visiting him & Peter's mother-in-law who immediately makes them some food. He also drives out demons from people who are possessed (Jesus was the first exorcist?) he sends some demons into a herd of pigs who then run into the lake and drown. Understandably, the local people ask him to leave, they're out of pigs now.
All that good is sort of ruined with a promise that if you ask God you will receive and if you seek him you will find him, so no God-believer ever went hungry, lost a child or died in desperation?
False prophets are as dangerous and deceitful as a wolf in sheep's clothing. But you won't spot them by their badly fitted woollen jackets but by their bad fruit. Can't we choose a metaphor and stick to it?
The crowds are thoroughly amazed at Jesus' speech about the wisdom of building a house on rock versus a foolish house built on sand, I suppose they are amazed because sand is about all they have round there.
Jesus wanders about healing people, including a servant who he heals without visiting him & Peter's mother-in-law who immediately makes them some food. He also drives out demons from people who are possessed (Jesus was the first exorcist?) he sends some demons into a herd of pigs who then run into the lake and drown. Understandably, the local people ask him to leave, they're out of pigs now.
