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If your hand or foot causes you to sin (or stumble), and If your eye causes you to sin, -- ought to elicit self-examination, so that the listener may realize that the sin-spawning problem is not truly in ones hand or foot or eye, but in ones nature.


What if you have alien hand syndrome which causes you to molest young boys' genitals? Should you chop off your hand as... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Rev Etherman) http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/sreply/11266 Sun, 28 May 2006 09:15:05 GMT <![CDATA[ Re: Matthew 18:8-9 - If Your Hand Makes You Sin... ]]> http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/reply/11265/t/Matthew-18-8-9-If-Your-Hand-Makes-You-Sin-.html#reply-11265
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If Jesus lived today...would you make it your life's work to have him institutionalised?
If he was recommending that people cut out their eyes? Yes. If he was a genuinely nice guy? Of course not.
"If I were God, and I made myself into a regular ol' person, I would have written down the stuff I said myself. I... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Yark Hutprancer) http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/sreply/11265 Thu, 18 May 2006 01:01:25 GMT <![CDATA[ Re: Matthew 18:8-9 - If Your Hand Makes You Sin... ]]> http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/reply/11264/t/Matthew-18-8-9-If-Your-Hand-Makes-You-Sin-.html#reply-11264
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It is VERY irrespobsible
to infer meaning other than the words themselves, and the context, and they clearly say "if". It does also give a shocking simile of the relative importance of eternal and temporal existence/dimsensions. However, it is also intentionally open to find insanity if you must find it.




"If Jesus... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (utopian indigent) http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/sreply/11264 Thu, 18 May 2006 00:47:54 GMT <![CDATA[ Re: Matthew 18:8-9 - If Your Hand Makes You Sin... ]]> http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/reply/11263/t/Matthew-18-8-9-If-Your-Hand-Makes-You-Sin-.html#reply-11263
A simple reading of the text results in a confusion as to why Jesus would say things that are clearly lunatic if taken literally. One then assumes that he... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Yark Hutprancer) http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/sreply/11263 Wed, 17 May 2006 09:09:48 GMT <![CDATA[ Re: Matthew 18:8-9 - If Your Hand Makes You Sin... ]]> http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/reply/11262/t/Matthew-18-8-9-If-Your-Hand-Makes-You-Sin-.html#reply-11262
"If I were God, and I made myself into a regular ol' person, I would have written down the stuff I said myself. I would have had people there with me taking notes. I wouldn't rely on people from the generation after my death to get the story right." - feeds@yuku.com (Yark Hutprancer) http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/sreply/11262 Wed, 17 May 2006 08:54:46 GMT <![CDATA[ Re: Matthew 18:8-9 - If Your Hand Makes You Sin... ]]> http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/reply/11261/t/Matthew-18-8-9-If-Your-Hand-Makes-You-Sin-.html#reply-11261 feeds@yuku.com (utopian indigent) http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/sreply/11261 Tue, 16 May 2006 23:50:23 GMT <![CDATA[ Matthew 18:8-9 - If Your Hand Makes You Sin... ]]> http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/topic/1308/t/Matthew-18-8-9-If-Your-Hand-Makes-You-Sin-.html
A: If cutting off my physical hand, or plucking out my physical eye, could transform my nature and turn me into a heavenly angel, possessing eternal life and a new spiritual body, would that not be a bargain? But doing such a thing will not produce such a result. Jesus statement... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Waterrock) http://sabdiscussionboard.yuku.com/topic/1308 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:55:29 GMT