(03-01-2022 09:12 PM)G-Man Wrote:  And I'd also follow-up by pointing out He also said if your right eye offends you, to pluck it out, and that if your right hand offends you, to cut it off. And He also said to His Disciples (and a lot of them abandoned him at that point when He said it) that they needed to eat His body, and to drink His blood.

There are very few people today who seriously study scripture would take those things literally because they are nonsensical in that context and taking them literally blatantly contradicts the rest of scripture. For example, drinking blood and/or eating the flesh of a human is one of the most serious sins in all the OT God laid out. Of course this is a core issue with the Catholic view of Communion (the Eucharist as the call it), but Catholicism is all over the place on scripture.

This is a perfect example of how you TEST scripture against other scripture to be sure you really understating it correctly. That is how the Bible itself tells us to study scripture.

Its also a massive error to uses Jesus words (Jesus explained specifically He was going to speaking in parables and in different ways and why HE did this), and to then try to apply the way you understand a parable or saying from Christ to how you read and understand Acts, Paul, Peter, John and James letters.

Those books, which make up most of the NT, are NOT written in parable form or in an attempt to hide meaning from the pharisees, the lost or those that reject Christ. They are all straight forward words and teachings, meant to be taken fully literally in almost all cases. There is a DRAMATIC difference in the words of Christ and the majority of the NT and how we read and understand them.

Yet a lot of people want to point to Christs words as an excuse to twist the words of Paul, Peter and the others to ignore what they plainly say and instead argue they mean something completely different and hidden that their church knows or only select men in their church understand.

That is unbiblical nonsense people spew to twist the Bible to fit their denomination or personal views.