When jesus said this had he been certified clinicaly insane? It doesnt make any sense.
What is he talking about?
2006-07-09 14:24:30 · 19 answers · asked by Moses_Santos_ii 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If I've already murdered them, then why aren't the bastards dead?
2006-07-09 14:27:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Before Jesus the the so-called rabbinical class had forgotten the words of Hosea 6:6.Their service to Jah was functionary at best which is why they clung so tightly to the law.It was easier to give a tenth than to be a cheerful giver.(2 Cor. 9:7)
So , what Jesus was saying was Jehovah looks at the heart and not the outside (Matt.15 :17-20)so just acting holy ain't going to get.
So please try to remember,when you have some misunderstanding about something Jesus said or did you can pretty much bet the problem will be on your side.
Two things I would like to leave you with one;"don't criticise what you can't understand." Two "Don't walk around here with your nose all snotty,if you don't know somthin' den ask somebody."Rudy Ray Moore.
2006-07-09 22:16:36 · answer #2 · answered by robert2011@sbcglobal.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't put it the way you put it. What He was saying is that when you look at someone in anger and at that moment you wish that they were dead, in essence you are a murderer. The only thing that is stopping you from doing the deed is a fear of the consequences or a lack of the power to bring it about.
In the sermon on the mount, where Jesus put forth that teaching, He was comparing the outward keeping of the laws that the scribes and the Pharisees thought was sufficient to be declared righteous in the sight of God with the true inward righteousness that God requires of those who would be called His people.
God knows our every thought and when it comes time for judgment those thoughts will be revealed. The Apostle Paul wrote about this to the church of God in Corinth.
1 Corinthians 4:1 Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. 4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
2006-07-09 21:33:32 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we see others as conceptual objects by judging and classifying them as "evil" we have taken their humanity away. When this happens we do not see the person, when we look at them we can only see the projection of our own judgments. Each human being is so much more than what our human mind can see. In this way we have already murdered them; we have reduced them to a flat idea in our head. Whether or not we follow through by actually killing them almost doesn't matter any more. As far as our awareness is concerned we have turned away from what is real and can no longer see the person in front of us and we cannot see the presence of the divine all around us. Nobody can know the mind of Jesus or even if this was an accurate, verbatim transcript of His sermon but I suspect He was trying to convey a deeper state of awareness to his audience.
2006-07-09 22:02:06 · answer #4 · answered by Tamara S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because God already knows how MANY people think that sinning in your heart is ok as long as you don't act on it.....WRONG!
Jesus is coming back for a pure and spotless church, He washed our sins away and He also made clear that there is to be repentance, Repentance means a "changed heart". If you're still harboring sin of any kind in your heart, you have not yet gotten victory over that.
Jesus wanted to make VERY clear, that sinning in your heart is the same as committing the act, whether it be lying, murder, or lust. Wishing you could do something is the same as doing it as far as sin goes...
2006-07-09 21:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by montanacowgirlwannabee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus often spoke in figurative language (I'm not making this up to justify Christianity he said so himself in the book of John).
In that particular passage, Jesus is making about about God's expectations verses our expectations for ourselves. Everyone back then and now would agree that it's wrong to murder someone. Murder is bad, right? Not very tricky to understand. Jesus is taking that concept of value for human life a step further, saying that you shouldn't even hate someone. He isn't saying that hating people physically kills them. He's trying to make people realize that hating people isn't any more ok than killing them, according to God's standard.
Later in the passage he says "Be perfect therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect." That's what all of his wild statements there in Matthew point towards. It means to be in heaven, we have to be 100% perfect. Not possible, is it? And that's the even bigger point- that we can't live up to God's standard on our own and that we need to know Jesus to know and be with the Father.
Hope that clears some of it up :)
2006-07-09 21:34:27 · answer #6 · answered by lebeauciel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps he meant that was sufficient and that you should not really kill them or harm them. If you hate someone let it be as if you had killed them, then think about what you have done. Lovelessly we would not think of those that may depend on this person for their sustainance or their love. Once done it can not be undone.
Hating and knowing hate in the hated person. Could we have learned right from that we would have no problems, but in the negation of Love there is no learning. We really have one chance and then it is gone. We really truly suffer, the lovelessly philosophically poor.
2006-07-09 21:37:58 · answer #7 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not insane. Too hard of a question to answer here, but just know that you can't go around killing people and then tell the court God said it's no worse than thinking about it.
Remember temptation is not a sin.
2006-07-09 21:32:13 · answer #8 · answered by timmytude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As Christians, we are supposed to love everyone so hating someone would be the equivalent of physically murdering them. You don't have to take it too literally and no Jesus was NOT insane! He promoted love :D
2006-07-09 21:30:52 · answer #9 · answered by lianphet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure it does, because you do what is in your heart. You forget that every teaching of Jesus had to do with what is in the heart.
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, you don't know Jesus.
How about these? "you are what you eat" "as a man thinks, so is he" All said by normal, everyday geniuses. Neither one Christians. Hmm, sort of puts you in your place eh? lol
2006-07-09 21:30:41 · answer #10 · answered by arewethereyet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most murders are pre-meditated. Hatred ususally leads to harming the object of the hatred.
2006-07-09 21:38:50 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋