A collaboration episode, where Keith and Nathan take turns responding to a YouTuber, with an intersting look at what he claims are inconvenient verses. He claims that preachers don’t preach these embarrassing passages in the pulpit.

After some housekeeping to remind listeners about the rapidly approaching 200th episode, and using #qft200 to alert us on social media, Keith lets folks know there won’t be a link to our guest audio clips, but use the following details to do your own search to locate the video n your own on youtube.com.

Youtube Channel: Truth Search

Nov 2015

Here’s the countdown:

* 9. Matthew 5:22 Forbids calling people fools. So Christians can’t call atheists fools, bummer.

Matthew 5:22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

This is a triple threat that includes being angry without cause, calling your brother. raka (or an air head), and of course a fool. And the result is basically the same. Judgement, facing the counsil, and hell.

The real issue isn’t the name calling as much as the context. The question ought to be, “Who is my brother?” The command is limited to who your brother is, and having malice in your heart against them.

* 8 Luke 24:25 (also 11:40) Jesus calls 2 people fools. Then calls religious leaders other names.

Luke 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

Luke 11:40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

The trouble here is a translation problem. The actual Greek words in play for fool mean “Un-intelligent” in the first verse. And “un-mindful” in the next one. The people being addressed were said to be uninformed, and unthinking about what they were doing. Warnings that could lead to a wake up call to danger in moral behavior.

* 7 Matthew 5:44 Christians are commanded to love, bless, and pray for enemies. Inconvenient for centuries for those who feel a need to burn a witch, or bomb an abortion clinic.

Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

This may be one of his few relevant inconveniences. But hey, Christians are still human. They sometimes don’t live up to the standards of the bible. But nobody has burned witches for centuries. And the wackos who bomb abortion clinics are few, and have little to no connection to Christians.

* 6 John 2:15 Jesus has a temper tantrum, and violently whips people in the temple.

John 2:15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;

Read the next verse for context, and why Jesus did this.

It explains why he did it. Also his rage wasn’t uncontrolled, but focused on those who were making a mockery of worship.

* 5 1 John 3:9 (also 1 John 3:6). Christians cannotg sin.

1 John 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

1 John 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.

Defimately a hard saying, and doctrine. But Keith steps through the verses leading into the passage to expand on how this can be.

* 4 Matthew 15:24 (also Matthew 10:5-6). Jesus only came for the Jews. Nobody else.