I haven’t attended church for a long time but I do remember Jesus being very into persecuting others and generally in favour of cruelty for the sake of it. /s
When they were alone, the people around Jesus, along with the Twelve, asked him about the parables. 11 He said to them, “The secret of God’s kingdom has been given to you, but to those who are outside everything comes in parables. 12 This is so that they can look and see but have no insight, and they can hear but not understand. Otherwise, they might turn their lives around and be forgiven.
Mark 4:10
I agree. He was really into it. He deliberately talks in a hard to understand manner so humans who don’t get it will burn in hell.
It’s been a while, I looked it up. Very clever. Is this type of cherry picking done in megachurch sermons to propagate the message of supply side Jesus?
I don’t know if quoting a text in context that is aligned with other passages is really cherrpicking. Jesus is very much into revenge on people who don’t follow him. If the man existed, which I don’t think he did, he must have been insufferable. Demanding that everyone give up their life to follow him, absolute faith from his followers, absolute love from his followers, claiming no one can know anything at all except what he teaches. A narcissist to the hundredth power.
You’re joking, but nowadays there are “Christians” who complain that their pastor teaching them about turning the other cheek and such is “leftist propaganda”.
They don’t care about Jesus at all, it’s all about tribalism.
