Harmonious
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Shermana, you wanted a list. I have a list.
Jesus did indeed trangress Shabbat when he had his students pick grain. I mentioned it before. This story starts in Matthew 12, Mark 2:23, and Luke 6.
Jesus told a man to forsake giving his final honor. The man said he wanted to bury his father. Jesus callously told him that the dead will bury the dead. Matthew 8:21
Jesus disrespected his own mother when she and his brothers approached. A disciple informed him they were there, and he was rude about it. Matthew 12:47
The travesty with the Canaanite woman starts in Matthew 15:22.
While trees don't have feelings, destroying the fruit tree was a sin. It was a temper tantrum, and Jesus ignored the fact that he sinned and told a parable. This can be found in Matthw 21:19 and Mark 11:13.
Jesus was obnoxious to his disciples. I decided to forego pointing out when they were legitimately frightened and he chides them for having little faith before miraculously calming the sea. Instead, I'll point out when his parables weren't as obvious as Jesus thought. In Matthew 15:16, he calls them dull. In Matthew 16:6-11, he goes on about not accepting yeast from Pharisees and whatnot, Jesus chides them for not getting that the point of the parable was not talking about bread.
Jesus had a thing for insulting Rabbis gratuitously. He was baptizing someone, and when people show up, he called them vipers. Matthew 3:7
There is no social redeeming value to the whole chapter of Matthew 23. From start to finish, it is an insult fest. The proper way to have delivered rebuke is pulling the offenders aside and privately pointing out their sins. Instead, he unleashes invectives against all Pharisees as if every last one is a hypocrite, with more gratuitous insult, rather than any constructive criticism.
In Deuteronomy, it says that if a person claims to be a prophet, it is appropriate to ask him to show signs and wonders as partial proof. Jesus was approached in Matt 12:38 and 16:1 by Jewish authorities, asking for a sign. Instead, Jesus goes on and on about it being a wicked generation. Thst alone would have made him suspicious as a false prophet.
And Jesus decries the concept of kosher in Matthew 15:11.
If you are not predisposed to believe the best of Jesus, and you read the text from the perspective of a Torah observant Jew, Jesus sins quite a lot and appears to be a highly unpleasant person.
Jesus did indeed trangress Shabbat when he had his students pick grain. I mentioned it before. This story starts in Matthew 12, Mark 2:23, and Luke 6.
Jesus told a man to forsake giving his final honor. The man said he wanted to bury his father. Jesus callously told him that the dead will bury the dead. Matthew 8:21
Jesus disrespected his own mother when she and his brothers approached. A disciple informed him they were there, and he was rude about it. Matthew 12:47
The travesty with the Canaanite woman starts in Matthew 15:22.
While trees don't have feelings, destroying the fruit tree was a sin. It was a temper tantrum, and Jesus ignored the fact that he sinned and told a parable. This can be found in Matthw 21:19 and Mark 11:13.
Jesus was obnoxious to his disciples. I decided to forego pointing out when they were legitimately frightened and he chides them for having little faith before miraculously calming the sea. Instead, I'll point out when his parables weren't as obvious as Jesus thought. In Matthew 15:16, he calls them dull. In Matthew 16:6-11, he goes on about not accepting yeast from Pharisees and whatnot, Jesus chides them for not getting that the point of the parable was not talking about bread.
Jesus had a thing for insulting Rabbis gratuitously. He was baptizing someone, and when people show up, he called them vipers. Matthew 3:7
There is no social redeeming value to the whole chapter of Matthew 23. From start to finish, it is an insult fest. The proper way to have delivered rebuke is pulling the offenders aside and privately pointing out their sins. Instead, he unleashes invectives against all Pharisees as if every last one is a hypocrite, with more gratuitous insult, rather than any constructive criticism.
In Deuteronomy, it says that if a person claims to be a prophet, it is appropriate to ask him to show signs and wonders as partial proof. Jesus was approached in Matt 12:38 and 16:1 by Jewish authorities, asking for a sign. Instead, Jesus goes on and on about it being a wicked generation. Thst alone would have made him suspicious as a false prophet.
And Jesus decries the concept of kosher in Matthew 15:11.
If you are not predisposed to believe the best of Jesus, and you read the text from the perspective of a Torah observant Jew, Jesus sins quite a lot and appears to be a highly unpleasant person.
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