Subject: Sell what you have-give alms |
Bible Note: Dear Kcabml4, I am sorry I didn't specifically answer your post as dear sweet John has accused me of baring false witness. I thought I had addressed your post but it appears I was confused as a couple of my posts were deleted. I am sorry for the confusion, I meant no disrespect. I will now try to answer you. It appears that a lot of people on this forum are annoyed with me. I don't know why except that I have touched a nerve of some sort. Obviously they are not used to someone challenging their intellect. The truth of the matter is I am taking a literal interpretaion of the words of Jesus and the forum is angered by it. If someone could only prove that Jesus did not intend His words to be interpreted literally the problem would disappear. But no one can. Jesus does not qualify any of His words as being figurative, tropological or metaphorical. In the absence of such qualification what authority does anyone have to say otherwise. What credential has anyone to say Jesus did not mean what He said? You say that I am not a good stewart over the things I have been given by others and I have been wasting everyone's time. How can you be serious when many of the forum members in answering other questions have admitted that after many years of bible study they are still learning? Why all of a sudden when difficult and uncomfortable questions are asked, everyone expects me to accept their explanations as final? If we are all still learning what is my error in asking more? Why should anyone be angered or annoyed at a continuation of bible study? The answers and comments I have gotten have come from the very people who have admitted in their profiles that they are still learning God's word. When a forum answer is given am I suppose to accept it as final and not ask more questions nor make anymore coments? So far, there hasn't been anyone to answer the difficulties. You said the 10 quotations I use are the same quotations by different authors in the different Gospels. Is there a problem with that? Doesn't that prove the context, the commands, the message even more so? When all the Gospel authors reveal the same teachings of Jesus, it emphatically drives home the point, does it not? You gave me some quotes from Corinthians, Hebrews and Peter but you said nothing as to how they cancel what Jesus has said. I read those passages and have no idea what your point is. The question remains, how do we discount and disregard the words of Jesus? flyman |