You talkin bout my son?Never mind that, I notice many people have a hatred of anyone who can interpret Christ's teachings in any effective way.
Never mind that, I notice many people have a hatred of anyone who can interpret Christ's teachings in any effective way.
Maybe there are forms of consciousness/knowing/being we have yet to evolve into and coalesce with/into
@what23: to be honest i've never heard anyone interpret that phrase in any other way than i did (maybe they mashed it up with an 'eye for an eye' or something)
Nietzsche, nineteenth century philosopher, has many criticisms of Jesus and Christianity, even going so far as to style himself as The Anti-Christ. In Human, All Too Human, and Twilight of the Idols for example, Nietzsche accuses the Church's and Jesus' teachings as being anti-natural in their treatment of passions, in particularly sexuality: "There [In the Sermon on the Mount] it is said, for example, with particular reference to sexuality: 'If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out.' Fortunately, no Christian acts in accordance with this precept[19]... the Christian who follows that advice and believes he has killed his sensuality is deceiving himself: it lives on in an uncanny vampire form and torments in repulsive disguises."[20] Nietzsche does explicitly consider Jesus as a mortal, and furthermore as ultimately misguided, the antithesis of a true hero, whom he posits with his concept of a Dionysian hero.
However Nietzsche did not demur of Jesus, saying he was the "only one true Christian". He presented a Christ whose own inner life consisted of "blessedness in peace, in gentleness, in the inability for enmity". There is much criticism by Nietzsche of the organized institution of Christianity and its class of priests. Christ's evangelism consisted of the good news that the kingdom of God is within you.[21] "What are the 'glad tidings'? True life, eternal life is found—it is not promised, it is here, it is within you: as life lived in love.... 'Sin', every kind of distancing relationship between God and man, is abolished - precisely this is the 'glad tidings'. The 'glad tidings' are precisely that there are no more opposites...."
@Felonious Monk - But did we not "need" him? With the Christianization of Europe, there was a uniting principle, right? And under this, the Bible was the first mass produced book, which spread literacy, and contrary to what some might think, actually led to an increase in science. Jesus may have acted as a catalyst. It might have been "someone else" or something else, but it did do some good, and for us to be having this conversation, it very well may have needed him. This is also a question.
Is it right to pay the imperial taxb to Caesar or not? 15Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”
But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”
“Caesar’s,” they replied.
17Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”
And they were amazed at him.
Romans 13:1 said:Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God.a
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Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon themselves.
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For rulers are not a cause of fear to good conduct, but to evil.b Do you wish to have no fear of authority? Then do what is good and you will receive approval from it,
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for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer.c
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Therefore, it is necessary to be subject not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience.d
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This is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
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Pay to all their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, toll to whom toll is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.e
Titus3:1 said:1Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, 2to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone.