Have you devout Christians "plucked out your eye," as commanded in the Bible? Do you know anyone who has?

Question

Sometimes, you guys don't seem too serious about your religion.

Answer 1

What are you talking about? I've plucked my eye out, AND cut off my right hand.

Answer 2

A devout Christian does not need to pluck out
their eye or eyes because they have not done
anything so cruel to justify the cause.

Answer 3

If everyone, Christian or not, plucked out the eye everytime they had a sinful thought or desire, the whole human race would be defunct in a matter of a few days.
This is one statement I do not take as literal.
I Cr 13;8a
12-3-6

Answer 4

Jesus is talking about excommunication, giving authority to the BISHOPS to protect the faithful from cancerous heresies that poison the body of believers. St Paul talks extensively about the body as a metaphor for the Church. This responsibility is not given to each individual believer.

Similarly, Yahoo Q&A has the authority to "pluck" or "cut off" peoples accounts for disregarding the rules.
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Answer 5

They are very serious about 'eye plucking' others. Christianity is a sadistic religion. If they had real political power you would not be able to distinguish a radical Christian from a radical Muslim. After all, their religions share the same philosophical basis.

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If the bible is the word of God, how can any part of it be taken out of context? What kind of sick game is God playing here, anyway? Does he like watching people mutilate themselves and others, also?

Answer 6

An eighteen-year-old student at the University of Washington recently gouged out his right eye and cut off his right hand. Campus police say that, en route to the hospital, the youth quoted these words: “If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.”—Matt. 5:29, 30, “Revised Standard Version.”

Some who read the newspaper report of the mutilation incident may wonder how this statement by Jesus Christ is to be understood. The plucking out of the eye and the cutting off of the hand are here not to be applied literally.

The application to be made is stated in Colossians 3:5-7: “Deaden, therefore, your body members that are upon the earth as respects fornication, uncleanness, sexual appetite, hurtful desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of those things the wrath of God is coming. In those very things you, too, once walked when you used to live in them.” So, the proper course is, not to mutilate oneself, but to deaden one’s body members toward sin.—1 Cor. 9:27.

Answer 7

Last time I plucked out my eyes I was told to put them back in there. Besides doing that, I can loose body parts and then have them regrow right then and there. Because I am a sponge!!!

Answer 8

I agree that you shouldn't really focus on the old testament, but it is actually not meant metaphorically. I knew someone who plucked out their right eye because it caused them to sin.

Answer 9

How do you know which parts of the Bible are metaphor and which are 100% serious?

Answer 10

His is not telling us to pluck out our eye, he is telling us to stay away from things that cause us to sin.

Mark 9: 47 And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

He is saying that if something causes you to sin, it is better not to have it than to have it and sin. He is using a very graphic example to teach us not to sin. The poin is, don't sin.