Reply #9: Jesus was speaking to the Sadducees

[theredpen]

This "speck of dust" crap is what some Christian's like to pull out when they are caught with their hand in the cookie jar (or, more realistically, their peckers in the prostitute). "Don't worry about the speck in my eye, when you have a log in yours!"

Nice try.

In this passage, Jesus is not speaking to His disciples, He is speaking to the Sadducees. Jesus talks about the "speck of dust" in Luke 6:42, but the context for this quote is established at the beginning of the chapter, Luke 6:1-11. In Luke 6 He is trying to illustrate the idea that one should judge other according to the same standards and one would have others judge them. The Sadducees were quick to judge and condemn other people, but they themselves did not live up to their own rules (think Ted Haggard).

I don't think that this skywriter is following the spirit of the commandments in Matthew 6, and I'm sayin' so. If someone wants to judge me on these same grounds, I accept that.