- Joined
- Aug 5, 2020
First of all, claiming God is flawed is literal heresy.
From Mathew 16:21-23
21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life. 22 Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” 23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Here Jesus is rebuking Peter for saying that his death must not happen, where as Jesus death is a requirement for his resurrection, leading to salvation for all. He speaks that Peter's concern are human based and not foreseeing of their divine nature (valuing human life against the divine life is the work of the devil.
The one who doubts in the garden?
It's called the agony in the garden, not the doubt. Jesus knew his Father will be done.
From Mathew 26:39:
Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
He wants another alternative then dying for all of mankind, as he is fully man (and fully divine), and the man part would not like to suffer. But he understands his Fathers will.
From Mathew 21:12-13:
12 Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 13 “It is written,” he said to them, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Jesus' house was full of moneylender, people full of sin and greed. He removed them from his house, not out of rage but of justifiable anger. (The peaceful, never hurt a fly Jesus never heard of Matthew 18:6). Jesus is the ruler of the house and does not want people lying on his behalf, while harming good people.
The fig tree is a parable to the Jews not accepting Christ as king. From "An Introduction to the Gospels" :
Mark uses the cursing of the barren fig tree to bracket and comment on his story of the Jewish temple: Jesus and his disciples are on their way to Jerusalem when Jesus curses a fig tree because it bears no fruit; in Jerusalem he drives the money-changers from the temple; and the next morning the disciples find that the fig tree has withered and died, with the implied message that the temple is cursed and will wither because, like the fig tree, it failed to produce the fruit of righteousness.
"If you're going to do your cod theology at least get the central tenet of the New Testament correct you goddamned idiot."
If you're going to claim statements about the New Testament, at least read it once and google search these basic points. This isn't anything controversial and has been understood for centuries.
. And up in the top-right corner is the wretched bitch that started it all. I really do wonder what the 2010s would be like without her & the other leftist woke moral guardians and we still just had the classic right-wing conservatard moral guardians (or better yet, no moral guardians whatsoever).