Matthew 12....Jesus said....this ADULTEROUS and EVIL generation...what does it mean?
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Jesus is complaining that the Pharisees and teachers are distorting the meaning of their religion.  This "adultery" does not refer to sex but to "adulteration", to contamination and unfaithfulness to the true Jewish faith.  They are twisting the meanings of the scriptures to promote their own evil ideas.\n\nLooking at the context, Jesus had just cured a blind, deaf man by casting out a demon.  The Pharisees explained that Jesus had done it with with the permission of the prince of demons.  They then demanded their own personal miracle from Jesus as a test.  Jesus was angry and accused them of discrediting any sign from God that they couldn't control.  He then brought up examples of miracles from the past, Jonah converting the hated Ninevites, the heathen queen of the South coming to learn wisdom from Solomon, to show that the Pharisees were blind to real signs of God's presence.\n\nBy calling them a "generation", Jesus was saying they were controlling the attitudes of an entire generation, setting themselves up as the authority to interpret scripture and religion in their own, twisted, Godless way.
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That's a catchphrase of WWE wrestler "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. It's a parody of the Bible verse, John 3:16, which states: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." I'm not particularly sure if Steve Austin intends for us to worship him or believe in him, though. ;)
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Son,you know that to be not true\n\nSpare us your stupidity and refrain from making even more of a jackass out of yourself.\n\nThis insult is very lame because an eight year old can come up with something better than this to get attention.\n\n\nI mean,even the heaviest christian bashers on this forum would call this one weak compared to their onsluaght.
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You need to extend the passage a little.\n\n Now Jesus and his disciples set out for the villages of Caesarea Philippi. Along the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" They said in reply, "John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others one of the prophets." And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter said to him in reply, "You are the Messiah." Then he warned them not to tell anyone about him. He began to teach them that the Son of Man 7 must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and rise after three days. He spoke this openly. Then Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. At this he turned around and, looking at his disciples, rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan. You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do." He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said 8 to them, "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel 9 will save it. What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life? What could one give in exchange for his life? Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels." \n\nThis utterance of Jesus challenges all believers to authentic discipleship and total commitment to himself through self-renunciation and acceptance of the cross of suffering, even to the sacrifice of life itself. Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it . . . will save it: an expression of the ambivalence of life and its contrasting destiny. Life seen as mere self-centered earthly existence and lived in denial of Christ ends in destruction, but when lived in loyalty to Christ, despite earthly death, it arrives at fullness of life.\n\nWhat are you doing in your life that is self-centered or not in keeping with what the Master needs?
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I understand this to mean not to worry fruitlessly about things that we have no control over. \n\nSo do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today.\n--Matthew 6.34\n\n--in the KJV (King James Version of 1611): Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
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Matthew 25:38-40    \n\n"When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? \n\nOr when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? \n\nAnd the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
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The statement "Everyone will be salted with fire" is difficult to interpret.\n\nIt may mean that unbelievers will enter hell for their rejection of Jesus, in just as salt preserves, they will be preserved in their punishment in hell forever.\n\nOr Christians who endure punishments in this world for their belief in Jesus\n\nOr any person who experiences suffereing in a way appropriate to their relationship with Jesus.\n\nFor believers, this means the suffering of purification, and for unbelievers, eternal torment.\n\nGood luck on your date tonight.
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The quotation you site IS shocking for those who have been duped by the conventional church all this time.  To anyone objective, it is exactly what would be expected.  Christians have brought more violence and bigotry to the earth than any other group.  There is NO HIDDEN MEANING to the passage.  It's very simple.  By starting Christianity, Christ brought a "sword to the world." End of statement.
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Well friend,\nI am a christian.\nAnd this is what that verse means to me.\n\nThe main problem with christians is that they always like to read such verses from a worldy perspective ignoring the spiritual aspect of it.\n\nLook at the begining it mentions of future and hope. Thats what we should be aiming for NOT earthly fortunes or satisfactions.\n\nSeeking the Lord comes with calling upon our Lord as well as praying to Him NOT just sitting around and trying to "argue" out things in your mind. Honesty is important here.\n\nNow consider, the phrase...\n"will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile."\n\nSome people like to take the that and say, Hey, God will bless me!!\nIt is true but does it mention necessarily EARTHLY blessings? No. I believe its more spiritual blessings that you will inherit one day in the afterlife. For the spiritual blessings are eternal as opposed to the temporary blessings on earth.\n\nWell, dont seek after earthly things as others do, these are all vanity.\n\nAs for me,\n"Jesus is enough"\nNothing else I want.\n\nRegards
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ask them, How do you understand the following verse from the Bible, and doesnt it meant that Jesus cant die for our sins?\n\nDeuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not \nbe put to death for the children, neither \nshall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: \nevery man shall be put to death for his \nown sin (eesh b’chet-o yumatu).
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Jesus is quoting from Psalm 82.  The exact line he's quoting is: "I said, 'You are "gods"; you are all sons of the Most High.'  But you will die like mere men; you will fall like every other ruler."  It does not mean human beings are literally gods, but that everyone who hears the word of God and takes it to heart contains the Spirit within them.
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That's from Matthew 26:52:\n\n52 But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword."\n\nPeace.
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In today's world, it means that a bunch old men should have sex sex with innocent and young girls. \nBack then, IDK. I hope it doesn't mean the same thing.
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"Forgive them father for they know not what they do". Jesus
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That is correct; the Bible speaks of those who have a "wicked heart of unbelief".\n\nhttp://www.needGod.com
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Although those words were addressed to the past, they are also quite appropriate for our day.\n\nNotice also his words to Timothy, concerning events that would definitely occur in our day:\n\n"But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."
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I was kind of wondering the same thing but then I found this: Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolators nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor theives nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.\n1 Corinthians 6:9-11 NIV (New Testament)