"if you don't like what you see, don't look"?
How many people have you come across who interpret it as meaning "if you find something offensive, destroy it."?
2007-12-03 14:35:50 · 20 answers · asked by John's Secret Identity™ 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, No, No! That's not what it means! He said if your eye sins, pluck it out, which doesn't mean to poke your eye out, but he's trying to show you how serious sin is, and how we must ask for forgiveness when we catch ourselves lusting or doing any other sin. (And trying not to do it again)
2007-12-03 14:51:14 · answer #1 · answered by Andizzle Foshizzle 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
lots of people destroy good things. Take the Ten Commandments, and Prayer in school's, if others used this parable they would still be in their place and people would choose not to participate rather than to run to Washington and change the law and have them removed because they find it offensive.
2007-12-03 14:43:47 · answer #2 · answered by john d 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means neither.
It speaks a spiritual truth that your spirit is eternal and your flesh does perish,
It also speaks of excommunication.
We are the body of Christ and if a member is corrupt it is better to pluck that member than to lose the body.
Value the eternal things rather than the temporary.
2007-12-03 14:44:23 · answer #3 · answered by djmantx 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. He was saying that any part of your life that causes you to sin..you should stop living that part of your life. like if you go to a bar and you find that you look lustfully at the opposite sex while your there, then to keep yourself from sinning, you shouldn't go to the bar anymore. because it's better to lose the fun of goin out than to sin and be seperated from God. It's all about self-examination. and no, it is not a literal command like some people think.
2007-12-03 14:42:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Seems to me that many of these so-called "Christians" claim that the bible should be taken literally. Therefore, there should be a lot of one-eyed "Christians" out there or many who think they aren't tempted and thus are in denial.
2007-12-03 14:40:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
First, one must realize who he was speaking to, not us but the Jews who lived by laws and rule keeping systems. He was transitioning the Jews from the Old Covenant to the New by making righteousness an impossibility by mans efforts. One might go ahead and pluck his eye out, you and I know that would not stop the lust problem. In his teachings he was making it utterly impossible to save oneself by law or rule keeping systems. He actually amended the ten commands by saying, "If you merely look to lust, you're an adulterer, if you merely call your brother a fool, you are a murderer and on and on. He was making it utterly and completely impossible to find salvation in works, bringing the people to a place of frustration, then he died for all and solved the problem by establishing a New Covenant of grace. I's by grace you have been saved and not of works (plucking eyes, chastity belts, creating new rules to keep)!
2014-09-05 03:28:11 · answer #6 · answered by Laude 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it means if you have 'cancer' better remove it before it destroys you..
cancer = sin
cancer = friend
cancer = cancer
cancer = damage done by others
2007-12-04 13:50:55 · answer #7 · answered by Lana_Luna_Soraya 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it means if your eye is going to cause you to sin, pluck it out. people who lack self-control.
2007-12-03 14:39:53 · answer #8 · answered by satya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think he means that if there's something in your life that causes you to sin, you should try to get it out of your life. You should try to remove yourself from any situation that causes you temptation to sin.
2007-12-03 14:40:43 · answer #9 · answered by Jonathan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My eyes HAVE been offending me for quite a while...
2007-12-03 15:52:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋