What kinds of sins
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![]() What an amazing chapter this is.
It's packed full of worthwhile lessons:
Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" She said, "No one, sir." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and from now on do not sin again."
In order to condemn those whose consciences
do not condemn them for living life as gay, lesbian or
transgendered people, some Christian clergy and enthusiasts feel compelled
to quote and enforce little known passages of the Bible,
whose meaning is far from clear.
![]() There are over 80 passages in which Jesus himself finds fault with those who were thought to be God's representatives in his day: the priests, the "experts in the law", the "scribes", the Pharisees and the Sadducees. How amazing it is to see the contortions that so many Conservative clergy, bible scholars and enthusiasts will go through to avoid having these scriptures (all referenced below) pointed at them! They seem to believe the scriptures were designed to be weapons which only they can use, and only for attacking others! Take the following. for example: ![]() "You would think these religious leaders and these Pharisees were Moses, the way they keep making up so many laws! . . . It may be all right to do what they say, but above anything else, don't follow their example. For they don't do what they tell you to do. They load you with impossible demands that they themselves don't even try to keep." (This wouldn't have to do with things like birth-control, masturbation, abortion, clerical celibacy, perpetuating male dominance over women, would it? ). . . Luke thought these words important enough to repeat them in his version of the Gospels {11: 37-54 }, knowing that they were already in the earlier Gospels of Matthew and Mark. ![]() He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then he sternly ordered the disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah." Now, in Luke's, Mark's and John's gospels, there is no mention of Jesus giving any special honor or recognition to Peter at this occasion. But Mark and Matthew both reported what came next. Every time that the Roman Catholic hierarchy claims the Matthew's account proves that Christ wanted to make Peter, and all of his successors the foundation of his Church, ask them what Jesus intended in the verses immediately following the above: ![]() From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This must never happen to you." But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things." |
For those interested in what Jesus taught, as opposed to
what has been handed down from one person, to another,
to another, to another, and on and on and on, for two
thousand years, why not go back to the source himself?
In his quest to determine what Jesus himself considered
of greatest eternal consequence, the following is what
one Christian pastor learned by reading and re-reading
all four Gospels, Group I : Jesus reprimanded TEMPLE MERCHANTS, for ...
Group II : Jesus reprimanded False Prophets, for ...
Group III : Jesus reprimanded the DEVIL for ...
Group IV : Jesus reprimanded DISBELIEVERS, for ...
Group V : Jesus reprimanded The CHOSEN FEW (his APOSTLES), for ...
Group VI : Jesus reprimanded THE FAITHFUL, for ...
Group VII : Jesus reprimanded RELIGIOUS LEADERS the MOST, for ...
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