Posted: Feb 24, 2018 8:26 pm
SafeAsMilk wrote:You mean aside from attacking innocent people in the market?
What innocent people did JC attack? Surely you don't me the con artists who were ripping off poor people.
And telling people to abandon their families?
You mean?
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Many people were traveling with Jesus. He said to them, 26 “If you come to me but will not leave your family, you cannot be my follower. You must love me more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters—even more than your own life! 27 Whoever will not carry the cross that is given to them when they follow me cannot be my follower.
It seems like he was just telling them how it is - a take it or leave it thing. Now a reasonable person can question the wisdom of following his advice and against the grain social interactions. And this notion of "loving him more than ..." - well I can see how one can view that problematically - especially if one thinks of JC as someone in a normal human state. But fair enough, it might be best for beings in human bodies not to say such things - even if they are true.
Maybe if he phrased it: "Look, if you're going to be as I am then you're going to have to love the way I am more than your father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, even more than your own life because your family, like my family, will likely think you
if you talk and act like me, and running around and doing the things I do is likely going to get you killed. That's what I think he meant to say.
And poo-poohing the poor so he could get perfumed?
I think that was more about defending the woman who the disciples were embarrassing than worrying about his odor issues.
Got anything else?