Do you think the world would be a far better place if all the Christians in the world followed it literally (except for eye gouging and hand chopping)?
Do you try to live by it always? How?
Would you agree that if these teachings were practised, Christian society would resemble Anarchist Communism?
If you don’t know it, it is in Matthew 5-7
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+5&version=NIV
Thank you, and God bless.
The Sermon on the Mount were the Laws of the NT.
This Sermon begins in Matthew 5:1. The laws Jesus says not one jot nor or tittle shall be changed were the Laws Jesus was about to speak beginning in Matthew 5:19.
Matthew 5:19 was the first Commandment given by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, followed by 77 more Commandments, the 2nd commandment is given in Matt 5:20, the 3rd commandment given by Jesus is given in Matt 5:22.
I have never had a need for Eye gouging, because I look toward the beauty of males and females in the same manner I look at the beauty of a flower growing wild and I have never had a need for hand chopping because I have never taken anything that was not mine.
I live by all 77 commandments given by Jesus and I am happy in my life.
The Commandments given by Jesus in Matthew 5:39 and Matthew 5:44 are the Commandments I use to live my life by, along with the Commandment in Matthew 6:14-15.
Yes, to live a life as Jesus commanded would be to live like a liberal socialist and to live for mammon would be like a conservative capitalist