I have no doubt that Jesus never sinned but I'm just curious. Isn't turning over a table sinning out of anger????
2007-03-19 03:09:59 · 26 answers · asked by Packer Fan 101 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Very good! You're thinking about what you read!
Whose temple was it? The Jew's or God's? Since it was God's temple, his house, did he have the right to decide what things to let in to his house?
If then his very own son, his only true representative on earth at that moment, knew his father's sentiment about what was going on in his father's house, didn't this son have the right to do what he did in God's eyes? That is the point.
Sins are only sins when God makes it so, in his eyes! In God's eyes Christ didn't do a sinful act then, he did a righteous act.
If Christ had lived in today's world, the police would have arrested him - but even so, God would have held him sinless in that deed.
Any other good questions?
2007-03-19 03:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Fuzzy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anger is not a sin it is just an emotion. Turning over the table is an act of anger that didn't hurt anyone - thus not a sin.
2007-03-19 10:12:52 · answer #2 · answered by Diane A 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO! jesus had good reason. It was his fathers house ,he wanted to stop them using it, to make a profit.
I beleive it has to do with the sabbeth. When Jesus entered, the church.
And saw merchants selling and buying, Using the church to make a profit. And it angered him.
Since it was on the sabbeth.
Just as someone would enter your house. You would have good reason to protect it, from those, who set out to do it harm.
So by protecting ones property, from others. or by protecting, your parents. house,
How is that wrong? I must say this, Jesus, speaks of anger ,as well as God.
If one has good reason , then it is not. If ones get angery without, cause, and sets out to hurt someone, or to destoy, something, without good reason ,then yes.
There is a difference you know.
Thats why i say, people don't understand, why God or Jesus, did what he did. So they assume, its wrong.
As God says,and Jesus.
If one has done you no wrong, then do not take up arms against them.
But , if one should find, they have harmed you, then you, have a right to defend yourself.
So therfor, it is not a sin. Again, i can see another person ,has misunderstood the reason, behind Jesus's action.
You need to re-think, your understanding. You didn't look for the reason, because you mis-read, it. And did not understand it.
2007-03-19 10:40:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what I call making a statement! He had to do something to show the people they were wrong in making His Father's house a house of thieves. They were cheating the people and making the Passover a money making commercial day! He didn't hit anyone with the cords, but when divinity flashed through His face and they heard and saw Him turning over the money tables (folks had to turn their money into special temple money another way the priests made money), they knew they were doing wrong and ran off. Then the children and sick folks came to Him for healing!
2007-03-19 10:16:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Righteous indignation is not sin, nor is it anger out of control. The Jews had turned the place of prayer in the temple to one of money changing, selling, and profits for the rich. It was a small example of God's wrath for not fully obeying His law.
2007-03-19 10:15:21 · answer #5 · answered by Lone Papa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anger in itself is not a sin. He had every right to throw those moneychangers out of the temple.
The Bible says be angry and sin not. There's nothing wrong with being angry--it's what you do because of that anger.
2007-03-19 10:14:52 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, The table wasn't broken, no money was confiscated and He didn't actually hit anyone. The bible says to be angry and sin not.
2007-03-19 10:19:34 · answer #7 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check out ephesians 4:26 "in your anger do not sin." that implies that we are to be angry sometimes, and that there is anger that isn't sin.
also james 1:19 tells us to be slow to anger which just means to not get angry quickly or to be hot tempered. but there is appropriate and non-sinful anger.
2007-03-19 10:14:54 · answer #8 · answered by chrisa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When will people learn that the Bible is nothing more than a collection of stories to teach A man's VERSION of stories handed down over hundred's of years by word of mouth and not to be taken literally?
2007-03-19 10:16:58 · answer #9 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turning over the sins of the unbelievers who put shame in temples is not a sin, when u get mad and hit a wall it isnt a sin, he only did it to protect the rights of the temple to show the people gambling doesnt belong in the house of god
2007-03-19 10:13:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋