Jesus Christ is the man that the Gospels of the New Testament (KJV only) revolve around. He called out hypocrites, pharisees, liars, and called sinners to repentance. He sought out sinners like taxmen and prostitutes to call them out and tell them to repent, and they did. He called out hypocrites and scribes that make up rules that they don't follow, themselves.
He also knew when to not waste his time. "Let the dead bury their dead", "it is not want to throw the children's food to the dogs", and He got impatient now and then, when arrogant unrepentant people bothered him too much.
He had to put up with people pretending to be just and good, but wanted to 'snatch words out of His mouth" to misquote Him and twist his words.
okay, i gotta admit... you brought up a REALLY GOOD POINT, one that can't be addressed too fast. But give me several hours of working on a project all about Jesus and the events He was involved with, and i'll deliver. that's a good project on its own, and i should do it anyhow, regardless of any internet argument. there's loads to say. so I'll do that independantly. and I'll bring it over here when i'm done. there's so much content, I'll probably have to break it down into installments.
I do have some stuff kind of handy, choice snips from the Bible in image text form, that I could dig up and post easily. The Parables are all great, the Wheat and the Tares is a telling one, but they're all great.
good job, you gave me a really super excellent idea. I'll dig up what i have handy, and it'll take a while to make new content.
Yeah pretty sure Jesus redeemed a prostitute did he not? Suggesting anyone who accepts christ and tries to follow his teachings can be saved...... So that kind of blows a hole in your whole everyone is just souless baphomet worshipers thing.
Here is a good question that'll prove beyond a shadow of a doubt if you are a follower of christ or not.
Do you believe I can be saved? Not will be, can be.
Wheat and the Tares, that's all I gotta say for now. so this is a very good idea, but it'll take me a while to do it. Sermon on the Mount covers the basics. I'm thinking about how I'll tackle this project.
Wheat and the Tares is a good place to start. And I really really love the shorter parable about the shepherd who was extremely delighted to find just one single lost sheep, when he had 99 already-found sheep.
Revelations is good too, Jesus is going to divide the sheep from the goats, spit out lukewarmers, and reject goats who think they are sheep. a thing about goats is their high rates of intersex.
Now, in fairness, to be fair, in the Gospels, Jesus talked about eunuchs who got saved. lately I've been maybe too pessimistic, but I have never ever met one single 'innocent" "eunuch", so i got pretty mad about that. maybe they're out there. idk where. i know there are extremely evil cisgendered people.
this is going to be a big project.
Again avoiding the question. It gets really tiresome when you do that. I understand your use of referencing parables but you intentionally avoided answering the question because it flies in the face of your ideology. On the one hand you have to either admit I can be saved or admit I can't which is against the bible's teachings unless you can come up with a reason I can't and you don't have one. This is the problem you are "above" learning and I'd encourage you to learn from Christ.
Christ did take up a whip and throw over tables in the temple when the money changers were using it. That happened and there is a lesson there. You just happened to have missed the lesson. I've studied my bible and had many conversations with men far smarter with myself who have spent many more years studying than I have. Men are not weak they do not run from conflict. Men stand and face it they are warriors. They know when to use strength and when to use wisdom. The ideology you follow runs from conflict. It is the opposite of what jesus taught. He NEVER ran from a conflict he faced it and won every time. That was precisely the point of him becoming man, to face temptation and to overcome it.
okay. probably the best approach will be to do each Gospel section as it is listed in order, followed by choice bits of OT, and Revelations. this could get interesting. it'll be time consuming and take effort, but it'll be worth it.
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