Are there any quotes attributed to Jesus that you find concerning?

Question

Of the words in the Bible which are supposed to have been said by Jesus, are there things which you find troubling?

Answer 1

i do find it troubling that so many people interpret too many verses literally.

Like the "if your eye causes you to sin, take it out." thing.

He doesn't literally mean that. What would be the point of his sacrfice (that allowed forgiveness of sins) if we just all eventually ended up with bodies with no hands, feet, eyes, ears- nothing but a head and body?

Answer 2

Things like this are why I am an atheist.

"I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. But these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence. (Luke 19:26-27) - Jesus Christ.

Here are some others from the bible that are concerning:

"When the LORD your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and stronger than you. And when the LORD your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them. (Deutronomy 7:1-2)

"When you approach a city to fight against it, you shall offer it terms of peace. If it agrees to make peace with you and opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall become your forced labor and shall serve you. However, if it does not make peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. When the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword. Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the LORD your God has given you... Only in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes (Deutronomy 20:10-17)

Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man intimately. But all the girls who have not known man intimately, sparefor yourselves. (Numbers 31:17-18)

Answer 3

Mark
Jesus explains why he speaks in parables: to confuse people so they will go to hell. 4:11-12
It is in Luke as well

Jesus recommends that to avoid sin we cut off our hands and pluck out our eyes. This advice is given immediately after he says that anyone who looks with lust at any women commits adultery. Matt 5:29-30

Jesus believes people are crippled by God as a punishment for sin. He tells a crippled man, after healing him, to "sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee." John 5:14

Answer 4

Matthew 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Answer 5

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy." (Matthew 5:7)

This can be a scary verse if I'm honest with myself. I tend to be a judgmental, black-and-white type of guy. I hold other people to behavior that I don't attain to myself.

Answer 6

i seem to remembr that after he had overturned the tables in that market place he then leaped in the air, screamed "die mother fucker, die!!!" and beat the crap out of a guy with a rock cos e was stealing. i found that a bit concerning.

Answer 7

None. Peace

Answer 8

Jesus advises his adoring groupies on how to deal with their own body parts that lead them into sin – amputation! They are to mutilate themselves by cutting off hands and plucking out eyes. He says it's better to be "maimed" than to suffer the "everlasting fire" of hell.

"And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched ... And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell ... And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire." – Mark 9.43,47


According to the malefic sage, merely looking at a woman "with lust" was a sin. 3rd century Origen was one young and impressionable Christian fanatic who took the words of his Lord a tad literally and castrated himself. He was neither the first nor the last Jesus-follower to glory in self-abasement and abuse. In the hair-shirted centuries that lay ahead tens of thousands of the brethren would mortify their own flesh in accordance with the pathetic dictates of the godman.

In times of acute social hardship and plague, despairing believers, taking upon themselves guilt for general misfortune and personal tragedy, submitted voluntarily to half-naked frenzies of public lamentations and floggings. Indeed, punishing the body for the good of the soul remains a main tenet of the Christian psychosis.

Answer 9

Yeah, this whole love thy neighbor as yourself stuff - what's up with that?

Answer 10

he is the son of god?????