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(21,046 posts)Matthew 5:17? Jesus does not abolish the law of the OT, he's supplanting it. He's not replacing it with kindness.
There's plenty of fire and brimstone and cruelty in the words of Jesus. It's just that peaceful Christians ignore them. They pretend that Jesus is always a nice guy, rather than repeating the cruelties of the OT.
A small part of the cruelty & injustice Jesus speaks in favor of in the NT, all these are from the Gospel of Matthew:
Jesus says that most people will go to hell. 7:13-14
Those who fail to bear "good fruit" will be "hewn down, and cast into the fire." 7:19
The children of the kingdom [the Jews] shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 8:12
Jesus tells a man who had just lost his father: "Let the dead bury the dead." 8:21
Jesus sends some devils into a herd of pigs, causing them to run off a cliff and drown in the waters below. 8:32
Cities that neither "receive" the disciples nor "hear" their words will be destroyed by God. It will be worse for them than for Sodom and Gomorrah. And you know what God supposedly did to those poor folks (see Gen 19:24). 10:14-15
Families will be torn apart because of Jesus (this is one of the few "prophecies" in the Bible that has actually come true). "Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death." 10:21
Jesus says that we should fear God who is willing and "able to destroy both soul and body in hell." 10:28
Jesus says that he has come to destroy families by making family members hate each other. He has "come not to send peace, but a sword." 10:34-36
Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching. 11:20-24
.Jesus will send his angels to gather up "all that offend" and they "shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." 13:41-42, 50
Jesus had no problem with the idea of drowning everyone on earth in the flood. It'll be just like that when he returns. 24:37
God will come when people least expect him and then he'll "cut them asunder." And "there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 24:50-51
Jesus also hates a living thing: A fig tree. And because of the curse, it withers and dies. He cursed it because it was not fruiting because of the wrong season to fruit.
Mark 11:12-14 and 11:20
Way to be positive and encourage life, Jesus.
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I don't know why there is not a church who ONLY reads the good parts of the NT and ignores and disowns the bad stuff.
The churches I've seen do not disown the canonical parts that are cruel.
Everytime I point out the mean stuff in the NT, where Jesus is busy condoning mass slaughter or murder for foolish reasons or sending somebody to hell, somebody at DU gets mad at me for pointing out that it's there. Not my fault it's in your bible and mine too.
It doesn't surprise me that churches use intolerant and hateful verses, no matter whether from OT or NT, to justify their hate. Paul was a woman-hater and body-hater as well.