Why don't you follow the literal keeping of the sabbath? The Bible clearly says "forever" with regard to this command. Is it because Jesus and others waxed a bit allegorical about it?
Jason (and others) - why don't you take the Sermon on the Mount literally? Read
Matthew 5:29-30. Why isn't this done? Ever?
What keeps you from literally fulfilling the very plain teachings of Jesus Christ in this passage? We don't find the word "
parable" associated with
Matthew 5. Jesus didn't didn't hedge His words with any comments like,
"Don't anybody try this literally at home!"
He said if your eye has caused you to sin, pluck it out. If your right hand has caused you to sin, cut it off.
Why don't any of you literalists do that?
What is there about the text in this passage that keeps you from being obedient to the very clear command?
I would submit that there's nothing really in the text at all that keeps you from maiming and blinding yourselves. You are prevented from accepting a literal interpretation by your own good sense and judgment.
Something
external to this passage of the Bible influences your behavior and causes you to suddenly wax allegorical on us when
nothing in the words of Jesus Christ appears to require that you do so.
Why are you all allegorical on this one?
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