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NASB | Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 6:14 "For if you forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. |
Subject: Bill Mc, Are you twisting Scripture? |
Bible Note: Dear schwartzkm, not all of Jesus' teaching are in effect for believers today. Consider Luke 14:33 - "So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions." Jesus was calling for disciples to literally give up ALL their possessions to follow Him. He demonstrated this with His own 12 disciples. Peter and John left their nets and followed Him. Matthew left his tax collecting. If you are going to interpret this literally for the 'modern' Christian, are you going to give up or sell ALL your possessions? This is what Jesus taught, is it not? Or, as stated elsewhere, what about Matthew 10:5,6 -These twelve Jesus sent out after instructing them: "Do not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." This was a COMMAND of Christ to His disciples. Are we, as His disciples, to follow this command? Doesn't the great commision supercede this? We must use DISCERNMENT in studying the scriptures. And we must use proper translation techniques with ultimate reliance on the Holy Spirit to take the things of God and make them known to us. Blessings in Christ, Bill Mc |