What They Think of Us: Brief Bible Blunders #10

This is a video posted on You Tube in which an anti-Christian laughs at our "stupidity." He (she?) thinks this is a "gotcha" in which Jesus contradicts Himself. Well .... no.


In the first Bible quotation (Matthew 5:21-22), Jesus does one of His "but I say ..." clarifications in which He equates belligerent and belittling behavior toward another person with murder. Jesus took the Hebrew Scriptures and traditions and reinterpreted them. He placed His statements on a par with them. This is one of the reasons the Jews of his time thought He was a blasphemer. Only God could do what He did.


In the second quotation (Matthew 23:17), Jesus calls a group of religious leaders "fools." Did he violate his prior statement? If He was, as the world believes, just a man, yes. If he was, as Christians believe, fully Man and fully God, then, no. He was merely speaking the truth as He did in other situations.

"But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?" Luke 12:20