Why do some people comment that Jesus' teachings,"the Sermont on the Mount" as the mentality of slave

Question

I think if everyone does every word that Jesus preached in the Sermont on the Mount, there will be no pain nor suffering in this world. Everybody loves each other

#Fernando, you are wrong on your logic. Practice the correct logic in asking question.

I don't catch the point of your comment. Please tell me in which part of my statement that logically false or contradictive or uncorrelated.

#The real kicker is that the Sermon on the Mount was added to the bible about 300 years after it was written. The oldest texts they have, the Codex Sinitacus and the Codex Vaticanus both do not have it in there

1. How about the fact that the book didache which dated 50-120 AD contains many passage from the book of Matthew including The Lord's Prayer which is a part of Sermon on the Mount.

2. http://www.acts1711.com/oldmss.htm read that!

3.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew the gospel of Matthew dated 70-100 AD.

4.The Passage of Sermon on the Mount do exists on Codex Sinaiticus & Codex Vaticanus. Please open http://www.biblical-literacy.com/lessons/NT/Handouts/NBL04-Matthew4-Sermon_on_the_Mount2.pdf for the sake of your faith

Answer 1

the German philosopher Nietzsche described Christianity as a slave religion, and used the Sermon on the Mount as an example of slave mentality, because for him the best thing in life was to be able to follow his own will. For Nietzsche, the prayer of Jesus 'Thy will, not mine, be done' was the prayer of a slave: Nietzsche preferred 'My will be done'. That is why he praised those who were able to impose their will on the universe - the Ubermensch, or Superpeople. This turned into Naziism and is today expressed in the 'pro-choice' movement, among other things.

Answer 2

The real kicker is that the Sermon on the Mount was added to the bible about 300 years after it was written. The oldest texts they have, the Codex Sinitacus and the Codex Vaticanus both do not have it in there, nor do many other contemporary and older books or manuscripts. It isn't found untill well after the first set of scriptures was codified, as it was written some time before Constantine but well after the supposed author, Matthew, was dead and gone. This was done as a way to attract people to Christianity. It's a great, beautiful and moral story though, no doubt about it.

Answer 3

You are not alone in your assessment as to the efficacy of putting this Sermon into play in our lives. In a reported conversation between the Hindu leader Mohandas K. Gandhi and the former British Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin, Ghandi seems to have reached the same conclusion. It is said that Lord Irwin asked Gandhi what he thought would solve the problems between Great Britain and India. Reportedly, Gandhi picked up a Bible, opened it to the fifth chapter of Matthew and said: "When your country and mine shall get together on the teachings laid down by Christ in this Sermon on the Mount, we shall have solved the problems not only of our countries but those of the whole world." Imagine that.

The fifth chapter of Matthew is where we find the Sermon on the Mount.

Of course, some people will simply never learn to do what is right and so it is just as Isaiah 26:10 tells us: "If favor is shown to the wicked, he does not learn righteousness; in the land of uprightness he deals corruptly and does not see the majesty of the Lord." (English Standard Version). For that reason, it is the True God who will deal with them so that they do not spoil it for the righteous ones. So we read at Proverbs 2:21-22: "For the upright are the ones that will reside in the earth, and the blameless are the ones that will be left over in it. As regards the wicked, they will be cut off from the very earth, and as for the treacherous, they will be torn away from it."

Hannah J Paul

Answer 4

An old Bob Dylan lyric said: "You're gonna serve somebody/ It may be the devil or it may be the Lord/ but you're gonna have to serve somebody."

Some Bible translations have the apostles using the idea of being a "slave" to Christ, but the essential idea is serving.

People are sometimes rightly skittish about bondages, serving out of fear or being manipulated, held against your will. There is also the fear of losing your individuality and freedom of thought to a conformist religion.

Actually, the Sermon on the Mount helps free us to become servants. Serving is possibly the highest virtue known to man.
It requires humility, which always ends up exalting the person who exercises it: think Abraham Lincoln or Mother Teresa.

More than any other passage in the Bible, the SOTM digs down to the core of human evil. It goes beyond our actions to our motives for those actions. For some people this is too close and personal. They aren't ready to surrender themselves that much or be that honest.

Answer 5

The Sermon on the Mount is the quintessential purpose behind Jesus' ministry.

Replace the word "God" with the word "Love" and I think everyone can find something of value there.

I'd be happy if even Christians practised what is taught there. The world would be a better place.

Answer 6

Well, I'm not sure about 'mentality of slave', but the sermon on the mount is the greatest ever.
Even Gandhi recognized that.

But it takes much further Bible study to fully understand what Jesus said that day.

For instance, his statement at Matt 5:5 is a quote of Ps.37:11.
So when you study Ps. chapter 37, you understand Jesus' message.

Answer 7

A slave in the Bible is one who doesn't work for money. They get food and things to live with and privileges, perhaps, but any money over their purchase goes in one sum to somebody else. We are slaves because our master, Jesus does not pay us in money which is of varying values around the world anyway.

Slaves are respected for following principles such as in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.

Answer 8

You are right. The Beatitudes should be the
Christian equivalent of the Ten Commandments.

The Beatitudes teach us the final end to which God calls us: the Kingdom, the vision of God, participation in the divine nature, eternal life, filiation, rest in God.
Peace and every blessing!

Answer 9

Fernando, you are wrong on your logic. Practice the correct logic in asking question.
jtm

Answer 10

because like the commanment by Moses that is why u scare it and it gives u the impression as a bondage