I am christian- knowing that:
If you believe the bible word for word what about the passage in which Jesus tells you to cut off your hand if it causes you to sin/jab out your eye if it causes you to sin? Why are you not all handless blind people?
I know this sounds rude, but I cannot find another to way to word it. I just dont see how you can believe the bible word for word, literally and more metaphorically.
2007-10-26 16:05:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
None of you said it means to cut your hand off if you sin.... so none of you believe the bible lirerally then?
2007-10-26 16:21:53 · update #1
Exactly what Charles said. The body is the entire church. If a part of the body offends you, then you are to cut that member out of your life. If someone in the church causes another member of the body to sin over and over then that member is to cut off from the member that causes them to sin.
2007-10-26 16:17:54 · answer #1 · answered by Kathie M 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Taking the bible literally means, among other things, taking metaphors as metaphors. If you took a metaphor literally, then you would have slipped into literalistic interpretation, rather than literal interpretation. That passage about cutting your hand off is an example of hyperbole, which is intentional exaggeration employed in order to make a point about something. Hyperbole was used extensively by Jesus and asking literalists why we don't all cut our hands off shows a serious lack of understanding on your part.
2007-10-27 15:50:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The point that Jesus made was that it that it would be better for you to gouge out your eye or cut off your hand than to spend an eternity in hell. Don't you agree with that?
2007-10-26 23:20:35 · answer #3 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus meant that quite literally. If you could imagine the horror of burning in a lake of fire for eternity, then maybe, just maybe, you can understand why He said that "it would be better for you to enter heaven blind or maimed, than to be cast, whole, into hell."
I'd rather lose an eye, than to burn for eternity.
2007-10-26 23:16:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
don't you know that people like them just like to pick up the verses that is convenient to them?
thumper, you really don't know what you're talking about. or do you mean to say you have already gauged your eyes out? if so, bravo to you! you really know the Bible!
2007-10-26 23:09:19 · answer #5 · answered by Perceptive 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christ is talking about the church, the body of Christ.
2007-10-26 23:12:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i dont remember WHICH one it is but i know what it means and stands for.
2007-10-26 23:16:32 · answer #7 · answered by lauren c 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't listen to Tur, he doesn't know his Bible.
Tur: Oh, I hit a nerve, didn't I?
2007-10-26 23:10:41 · answer #8 · answered by the pink baker 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋