BTW, Mat 5 10-13 is nothing but ifs and nuts and monkey butts.
"IF" is not a basis for anything.
It's called covering your ass and its a copout.
The worst part is that you in all of your humbleness think that YOU are righteous!
What a crock of shit.
Would you like for me to go through your all of your post to point out your hypocracy?
Matthew chapter 5 is a mess. It is full of nonsense and contradiction that has no meaning except to those that try their damnedest to read into it what is not there.
Mat 5:4 4"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."
If a person is to be blessed for mourning over some sorrow or misery, the reason for the blessing must consist of something more than just being comforted. Is the dedicated Christian supposed to go out of his way to look for occasions to mourn, so that he may be comforted by someone and thereby be blessed? There needs to be more to this beatitude for a teacher of wisdom to have spoken it. One may then suspect that the lack of substance here resulted from the writer of Matthew having altered his source for some reason.
Mat 5:5 5"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
As suspected this verse appears to be essentially a copy of a verse from a psalm:[3]
Ps 37:11 But the meek shall possess the land, and delight themselves in abundant prosperity. Most Logical folks find the Matthean verse to be false, in that in 2,000 years of history we see no evidence that it is primarily the meek who inherit land.
Mat 5:6 6"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied."
Whether today or two thousand years ago. Many who have hungered for righteousness have died for that reason, or lingered in concentration camps or in mental hospitals, they did not receive righteousness. If this verse and the other beatitudes are instead interpreted to mean that the satisfaction or reward will come after death, then there would have been no point in Jesus speaking them; he could merely have said: "Don't be concerned with the way things are, everything will be OK after you get to heaven." What was the point?
Mat 5:7 7"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy."
This one cracks me up. This verse lacks any semblance of truth or common sense, since the dispensers of mercy are often persons in authority who do not need mercy, and hence do not receive mercy. Conversely, persons in need of mercy are often those who have not been in any position to dispense it to others. What was the point of this nonsesnse?
Mat 5:8 8"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
Head scratcher here too. No one was/is supposed to be able to see God and live. So... If it really means to "see" God really means to be in his presence without seeing him, which is an obvious contradiction. Keep in mind that if you see "him" you are 'zzzzot!'
Mat 5:9 9"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God."
Mat 10:34, where Jesus says he came not to bring peace, but a sword. Thats a pretty damned strong contradiction between the two, which only an inordinate amount of interpretation can reconcile if even then. Jesus' actions so often were of a nature to provoke. However much one may wish that Jesus had been a peacemaker, his words directed against the scribes, Pharisees and chief priests, his action in "cleansing" the temple, etc., all contradict. Would the Son of God himself bless peacemakers if he himself were not one?
Mat 5:10 10"Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
"for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," competes with the very same wording in Mat 5:3 further detracts from its authenticity. I.e., does the kingdom of heaven belong to the poor or to the persecuted? I guess you have to be pretty damned miserable to belong to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Mat 5:12 12"Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so men persecuted the prophets who were before you."
If This verse does not imply that martyrdom should be eagerly sought in order to get to heaven quickly, at least implies a greater reward in heaven for those who have been persecuted than for others. It is those that have been unrighteously persecuted who will receive much reward. But... Jesus never taught what the different levels of reward or pleasure in heaven are, if any. Buttttt... Mat 18:1 when he is asked: "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?"
No wonder the maniacs in the Middle East do what they do. They have a better friggin book!
Look, I could go on and on and on, but to what end other than make you cry.
It is a book written(poorly written at that) by men that had no real clue how the world worked, full of flaws, errors and contradiction much of which was lifted or plagerized from other writings.
