89 chapter project: Matthew

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chansen said:
But if just following some of the customs while rejecting much of the underlying faith makes them Jews, then Christian Atheists must still be Christians. Unless you ask the sort of person who thinks Messianic Jews are Jews.
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May I suggest that discussion of Christian atheism and Messianic Judaism be moved to another thread? Many thanks.
 
Ritafee said:
So ... in the gospel (according to) Matthew (11.27) Jesus makes some pretty radical personal claims ...

"All things have been delivered to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him."

Is Jesus calling himself the son of God (father) and the revelation of God (father) to mankind?
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Remember it is all just words ... in essence ... do they mean nothing or is that just Sus-la in another tradition of Anna Gam ... Celtic scam appearing as scat? There are traditions, rites, rituals and folk lure that despise what's writ ... doesn't transpose directly as oral ... it is near Magi ... Magus ... or some strange irony ...

This may make Sue sink as Moi-le did after that essence of association ... very succinct ... as a mark was made ... a kind of inner warming ... like Jae's flaming desires for ... how he burns ... must be virtue!

Knot necessarily connected for what we know about excessive belittling ... small justices?

Word paene ... as paene ultimate humour about Jae's 5 conceptualisms about fruitcake knowledge about what alternates like ... why sometime objective folk find themselves alone? Out standing in their pasture ... others sink on their stands without testing the waters ... they could be fluid and swallow yah ... Jah that's potential!

The humbleness of life is transparent ... crystal gael ... enough to cloud the mind of some that haven't even poked it ...
 
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Jae said:
We who follow Christ must bear the yoke of Christ, the yoke of the cross. We are, after all, followers of he who bore his cross for us.
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Somehow I don't think Jesus was talking about the yoke of the cross in Matthew 11: 30. Surely he would not call the yoke of the cross easy and the burden light?
 
paradox3 said:
Somehow I don't think Jesus was talking about the yoke of the cross in Matthew 11: 30. Surely he would not call the yoke of the cross easy and the burden light?
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Heis just egg'n Jah on to Hallelujah ... an explete of scattered sort ... word of discovery?

We can only imagine what's out there ... camera obscura as it looks back at us ... forming and image from the alternate side! Some depth may be required ... of understanding strange things ... like reciprocation in the distance ... ultimately! Lying, in the wardrobe ... unavailed as something to unravel when exposed ... CS Lewis on mysteries of the dark?

Just can't see it ... right? What;s left ... stand alones ...
 
Seeler said:
I would suggest that if someone wants to do some discussion on a topic in detail and use other scriptures that they start a new thread, so that this thread can move on to a further reading of the Gospel of Matthew.
It would be easily possible to spend a whole season on one chapter. I could preach the whole sermon, which takes days of preparation, to talk about the single phrase or ehort parable in the sermon on the mount. I don't think this is Paradox's purpose in this thread.
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Thanks for these words Seeler. As I read my way through Matthew, one chapter every day, I am aware that I could slow down and spend at least a week on each one. Maybe even a whole season, as you suggest, if I wanted to look at multiple translations and study commentary.

Reading the bible as I am doing is starting to give me a somewhat different impression of it. Most of Matthew is familiar to me but it is a lot like a patchwork quilt. Reading the gospel as a developing narrative is new to me.

Coming up in chapter 12 is a section I have never seen before. Do you know how I could look up these verses to see if they appear anywhere in the three year lectionary?
 
BetteTheRed said:
There's strong external evidence for the existence of a human Jesus, writings contemporary to the time - Jewish, Roman and Greek, in later Judaism and Islam; the evidence for a divine Jesus is, of course, non-existent.
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Agreed. When it comes to a divine Jesus, I don't see how there could possibly be "evidence" of any kind. It is a matter of faith and the stuff of faith statements.
 
paradox3 said:
Thanks for these words Seeler. As I read my way through Matthew, one chapter every day, I am aware that I could slow down and spend at least a week on each one. Maybe even a whole season, as you suggest, if I wanted to look at multiple translations and study commentary.

Reading the bible as I am doing is starting to give me a somewhat different impression of it. Most of Matthew is familiar to me but it is a lot like a patchwork quilt. Reading the gospel as a developing narrative is new to me.

Coming up in chapter 12 is a section I have never seen before. Do you know how I could look up these verses to see if they appear anywhere in the three year lectionary?
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Could this be the purpose of the bible to be read openly ... to see what comes out of it?

Yet many beliefs are closed down and tight as ticks ... raider arcing and sparking ... shocking the dead to life ...
 
Pontifex Geronimo 13 said:
Just happened on this this morning.
It’s about paradox,
Christmas,
Matthew 11,
Prophesy.

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PG13 I don't know how many folks actually watch videos which are recommended on these threads. Does this speaker specifically mention Matthew 11? If he does, please give a summary of his comments.
 
paradox3 said:
My first reading of this chapter had me thinking Jesus was becoming rather arrogant.
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Considering he has been since he opened his mouth. I surprised you hadn't noticed earlier.
paradox3 said:
Especially if we contrast these claims with the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount.Reply
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That's is called playing to the audience. I wonder whether the writers of the tale intending on making him, come over as a sociopath or it is because, the scribes who were putting the story together and most likely discussed it amongst themselves without prove reading what they had written. ( taking bits from here and bits from there.) Thus giving jesus such a contradictive nature.
 
paradox3 said:
Somehow I don't think Jesus was talking about the yoke of the cross in Matthew 11: 30. Surely he would not call the yoke of the cross easy and the burden light?
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Well paradox3, I believe Jesus won the victory over the cross and so the "burden" of the cross is light indeed.
 
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Jesus went against the mystery of God ... thus he was toast ... gone ... at least in satyr value! Now scattered among the demos ... a paradigm of belief over twilight zones ...?

Tis a grey area in deed ... few does it ... attempts to understand reciprocating drives ... resonant reflection requires a look deep into the eye of the Gae'L ... that enigmatic broad thing ... sulking!
 
paradox3 said:
Reading the bible as I am doing is starting to give me a somewhat different impression of it. Most of Matthew is familiar to me but it is a lot like a patchwork quilt. Reading the gospel as a developing narrative is new to me.

Coming up in chapter 12 is a section I have never seen before. Do you know how I could look up these verses to see if they appear anywhere in the three year lectionary?
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Wow! I just reread chapter 12. What a lot to think about! Again a person could guide quite a few study sessions or preach a month of sermons on this chapter alone.

I did a brief search of lectionary readings but didn't find any for this chapter. I would expect it to be in Year A.
 
Seeler said:
Wow! I just reread chapter 12. What a lot to think about! Again a person could guide quite a few study sessions or preach a month of sermons on this chapter alone.

I did a brief search of lectionary readings but didn't find any for this chapter. I would expect it to be in Year A.
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"THINK" is a foul word to those of stoic belief ... seized by the terra 've it ...
 
Seeler said:
Wow! I just reread chapter 12. What a lot to think about! Again a person could guide quite a few study sessions or preach a month of sermons on this chapter alone.

I did a brief search of lectionary readings but didn't find any for this chapter. I would expect it to be in Year A.
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There are advantages to going lectionary-free.
 
Lexons are critical to understanding great dispersals of means and meanings in myth ... they may convert to le'sons ... which can be legion ... prodigal Eve in ... a spot to place the dark inn nin!

Thus the Nin Ka Po' ... as stoics have trouble with dark things ... they just don;t understand broad satyrs as temptations to learning ...

It was misunderstood as cover you ass and move when it should have been purged completely ... and washed ... pooped heck? Alas it happens humanity being flawed compared to divine abstract!

Tis a dark area ... 49 Eire?
 
Summary: Matthew 12: 1 - 50

A long chapter coming up which will be a challenge to summarize. Jesus is confronted several times by the Pharisees and he calls them a brood of vipers. Anyone remember the poster GRR or Golden Rule? He always challenged my view of Jesus as being too sanitized and he liked to remind me about the brood of vipers and the whitewashed tombs. :)

1. Jesus is challenged by the Pharisees about picking grain on the sabbath. He quotes the Hebrew scriptures, "I desire mercy and not sacrifice" (NRSV) and declares himself lord of the sabbath.

2. Again making the Pharisees unhappy, Jesus cures a man with a withered hand on the sabbath.

3. After curing the crowds, Jesus orders them not to make him known. This fulfills a prophecy from Isaiah.

4. Speaking against the Son of Man will be forgiven. Speaking against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven now or in the age to come.

5. A tree is known for its fruit, either good or bad. On the day of judgement we will be called to account for all our words.

6. The scribes and Pharisees ask Jesus for a sign. He predicts that for 3 days and 3 nights the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth.

7. When an unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it wanders for a while and then returns to its house. On finding the house clean, swept and empty it brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself.

8. While speaking to the crowds, the mother and brothers of Jesus want to speak with him. He declares his disciples to be his mother and brothers. 12 :50 "For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." (NRSV)
 
Imagine a carpenter appreciating how the grain runs on the Shabba Dais while drifting off in the Sin ag ode ... Agatha of place where one could draw out deep conceptions ... in legions ... as those flighty things in Sante Ego El Grande ... a painting in Fredericton's primeme art gallery ... a MasterMinds Mysterious presentation of his abstract ...

Dallying Master Peace ... on grey areas? Queer cognizance of how things should go to escape?

Tis a horse of a pale shade ... whitewashed Black Booty ... with angel ix ... nein muses ... manifest corruption of word is expected ... just because they Kahn? Within aged folk lore that's an inn ... thus sinking sensations ... hoards are blanched at the perception ...

If you fear horses ... imagine this is only an icon ...
 
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