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Mounty meme9/7/2023 ![]() He made references to passages in the Hebrew scriptures, but then expanded on them, suggesting that scripture alone was not sufficient guidance for living.Ĩ) The second coming of Christ or “the end times”. Jesus did not say that someday there would be a Christian Bible and that we must believe every word of it literally. But nowhere in it did he suggest that all of us deserve eternal hellfire because we were born into sin, or that he would have to die on the cross in order to save us from it.ħ) The Bible. He acknowledged human sins in the Sermon on the Mount. He made no reference to a Holy Spirit.Ħ) The doctrine of original sin or substitutionary sacrifice. In the Sermon on the Mount, he taught what we now know as the Lord’s Prayer – and he didn’t tell people to pray to him, but rather to their Father in heaven. (The real miracle would be a person who could follow the Sermon on the Mount perfectly!)ĥ) The doctrine of the Trinity. His words and his example were enough to make his case. Jesus didn’t ask people to believe the unbelievable. The Sermon on the Mount made no reference to anything miraculous. ![]() But neither did he contradict the possibility that other religions may be as good for others as ours is for us, in leading people to a fulfilled and compassionate way of life.Ĥ) Anything supernatural. This didn’t make Jesus a “pluralist”, necessarily. “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord’, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” (Matthew 7:21)ģ) Any condemnation of other religions. Do we love even those who persecute us? Do we pray with sincerity? Do we forgive those who do us wrong? Are we liberated from useless worry? He asked people to practice a life of radical compassion. ![]() In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was focused on good works, not on faith in dogma. Find a heterosexual male who has never lusted for a woman! All heterosexual males are “busted” by this passage, so those in this category would do well to refrain from throwing stones at anybody for perceived lapses in morality.Ģ) Anything to believe in order to gain salvation. The “pelvic issues” Jesus raised in the Sermon on the Mount were limited to male lust for women, heterosexual adultery, and heterosexual divorce and remarriage – all of which he lumped into the same category of sinfulness. To the end of sorting the wheat from the chaff in Christianity, I offer this list of ten things that aren’t in the Sermon on the Mount:ġ) Any reference to homosexuality and abortion. If something is missing from the Sermon on the Mount, we can presume that it didn’t matter much to Jesus. It’s worth reading again and again, not only for what’s in it, but for what’s not. Thank God it’s short! Just his admonition to love my enemies is overwhelming. I’ve occupied my whole life in a stumbling attempt to live up to it. The Sermon on the Mount has been as much Christianity as I can handle. We can presume that the Sermon on the Mount was Jesus’ “stump speech”, or at least was the essence of his message that his early followers wanted to preserve. ![]() Nowhere in his sermon did he suggest that there was more they needed to know from or about him. Jesus addressed a “great multitude” of people who had, in all likelihood, but this one opportunity to hear his “good news”. What’s known as Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount is found in two of the gospels of the New Testament, in Matthew chapters 5-7 and in Luke chapter 6. Here are a few memes that bring a little laughter (if you’re immature, like me) and help balance out the negativity of angry comment sections.A common Internet meme uses the Sermon on the Mount. Still, whether this product makes sense or not, the internet has once again proven that it can be a glorious place. Your wallet is not mine, and my wallet is not yours, and I don’t doubt that Silca will sell these (which will probably help fund more-useful products in the future). Bastion, cycling’s titanium-3D-printing veterans, produced similar mounts three years ago but never brought them to market because the price would offend. This is extremely expensive technology with high-priced raw material. Oh, the price!Īnd while it may seem like Silca is trying to pull an S-Works and charge whatever dentists are willing to pay, the reality is that the selected method of manufacturing directly results in the astronomical price. Some hate how it looks, others think it should be lighter, many want accessories underneath, and then there’s the price. Silca’s brand new 3D-printed titanium computer mount seems to have triggered the online bicycle world. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members! ![]()
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