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To: kittycatonline.com

I ask this literally, not rhetorically: are you saying that the Luke passage abrogates the Sermon on the Mount? All those teachings (the related ones, in any event) were in effect for the very, very short period between the time the speech was given and the night Jesus was betrayed?


232 posted on 11/07/2006 10:37:31 AM PST by BackInBlack ("The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.")
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To: BackInBlack
I ask this literally, not rhetorically: are you saying that the Luke passage abrogates the Sermon on the Mount? All those teachings (the related ones, in any event) were in effect for the very, very short period between the time the speech was given and the night Jesus was betrayed?

A fine question. I am not saying that the Luke passage negates the Sermon on the Mount. Neither does the Sermon on the Mount negate the Luke passage. Jesus spoke to the masses, and gave them the SoM. He spoke to the apostles and told them to carry a piece. So is this contradictory? I don't feel so; rather, it is complementary.

Pr 26:4-5
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

The ideas here in Proverbs are complimentary, you need to use a bit of wisdom, a bit of prayer, and apply the appropriate one. Sermon on the Mount and Luke? Complimentary, not contradictory. Use some commons sense, give it a bit of prayer. God tell you to carry some heat going down a dark alley? Do it. He tell you to carry nothing other than a pocket New Testament? Do it.

234 posted on 11/07/2006 11:19:33 PM PST by kittycatonline.com
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