Jesus said if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and if your eyes causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away, I have never witness this happened, does it mean that Christians don't sin or they are just ignoring these words of Jesus?
2007-09-21 02:25:31 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no1 home, reread matt 18:8 it did mentioned hand or foot, so who's ignorant?
2007-09-21 02:31:53 · update #1
so does it mean that those things christians want to follow they persuades others to believe it and for those they can't follow they call it metaphor?
2007-09-21 02:36:09 · update #2
potters, pity yourself, I bet everything you know about christianity just came only from the Bible, which means that you really don't know much about christianity.
2007-09-21 02:48:49 · update #3
Ned you mean the self-proclaimed apostle Paul, btw using words like stupid doesn't make you look any wiser.
2007-09-21 03:01:34 · update #4
considering metaphors, I agree they are many of them in the gospels like the virgin birth which was very popular in greek mythology during that time, miracles stories like turning water into wine, raising the dead and how the earth shook when jesus died the resurrection and so on. The reason this question was asked was to make you people think the roles of metaphors in the bible.
2007-09-21 03:45:57 · update #5
Yes, I know many Christians who follow Jesus' teaching, especially in Matthew 18: 7-9. They constants examine their lives to find the habits that lead them to sin. They change their habits and get rid of the habits and practices that lead them to sin.. For some people, this may mean not drinking or not going to certain places or associating with certain people.
Yes, Christians will sin, but we need to constantly examine our lives to see where we can avoid sin.
2007-09-21 02:33:49 · answer #1 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have literally heard of at least one person in modern times pulling out his his eye in response to this command.
And there used to be an ancient sect that castrated themselves because of this.
Most Christians go along with the Apostle Paul's common sense interpretation of this passage to be metaphorical; Jesus was literally saying, if you actually read it, that the most important thing in life was to avoid sin (and thus Hell) at all costs.
Silly troll.
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"so does it mean that those things christians want to follow they persuades others to believe it and for those they can't follow they call it metaphor?"
Maybe some do. But in this case, even a short reading of the text implies that Jesus was using hyperbole.
Don't act as if you are a barely literate person who has never heard of idioms, similes, and metaphors.
You cannot make people doubt their faith by acting stupid yourself. People will simply dismiss what you are saying an an obvious "straw-man" argument.
2007-09-21 09:44:08 · answer #2 · answered by Ned F 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus spoke in parables many times so the people of that
time would understand exactly what he was talking about.
They fully understood how drastic cutting off your hand or
plucking out your eye would be, so they then knew that sin
was a forbidden and evil thing and they should flee from
anything or anyone who would cause them to commit sins.
Most Christians do not willingly sin after accepting Christ
as their Lord and neither do they ignore His Words, but
usually study the scriptures even more often and in earnest.
We do know there are many scriptures that refer to people
like you, however.
2007-09-21 09:36:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Obviously it is a figurative passage. A person's hand or foot cannot cause them to sin. I interrupt this passage to mean that if you are tempted by a specific thing or a person you should remove them from your life. If you are an alcoholic you should not keep any alcohol in your home and you should not hang out with people who are drinking. If you know you cannot resist the temptation you should remove what is tempting you from your life.
Christ used the example of a hand, foot, or eye to show that no matter how precious something or someone is to you, if they cause you to sin you should remove it or them from your life.
2007-09-21 09:32:08 · answer #4 · answered by gerafalop 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus here illustrated how it is better to take some material loss, though it be as precious as an eye or hand was to the people he addressed, than to lose integrity. This is the time when we should evaluate things properly. This is the time to keep God first in our lives. We must not yield to efforts of any kind to turn us away from our integrity, whether by subtle offers of wealth through violating ethics or through application of cruel and painful persecution.
2007-09-21 09:38:29 · answer #5 · answered by conundrum 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You dont know the Bible really my Friend. If i take a piece of a dialogue and start making a report it will be just wrong.
Pity on you - couldnt understand what it means. Read and re-read the whole context AND stop making blunt comments which are totally baseless.
It simply means to cut-off our old nature, the sinful nature.
2007-09-21 09:43:16 · answer #6 · answered by Potter'sClay-Isa 64:8 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jesus used hyperbole often as a means to teach clearly.
Just as we don't really have a log in our eye, He was saying get rid of the things that are so sinful, that you would be chancing your salvation, or at least your walk in the Lord.
2007-09-21 09:36:08 · answer #7 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was saying that nothing is more important than eternal life in heaven. Christians don't have to do those things because Christ forgives and freedom from sin is possible in every life.
2007-09-21 09:31:28 · answer #8 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Of curse you haven't seen any such thing. Christ was using hyperbole to make a point--not suggesting that someone literally cut off their hands or gouge out their eyses.
Use some common sense--that's what God gave you a brain for. Use it.
2007-09-21 09:32:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I've heard news reports of guys cutting off their winky. But those are usually drug-related cases unrelated to Matthew 18:7-9.
2007-09-21 09:30:22 · answer #10 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋