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I recently posted this to this site's Memes 'R' Us group and was disappointed with the response, but some of that may have been due to a lack of clarity on my part which I will rectify here. Many Christians rationalize about or seem not to really care about God and the Old Testament. For them it's all about Jesus. So I'm always keen to find arguments which are critical of this aspect of the their faith. This is a list of utterances attributed to Jesus which are worthy of ridicule and/or contempt. In other words, complete crap...hence the accompanying . These are paraphrases. Please contribute the exact quote and where to locate it if you know. And add to my list in the comments section if you know any examples I have missed:

  1. Take no thought for the 'morrow'
  2. He came to turn brother against brother
  3. You should love him more than your family
  4. He came to uphold every jot and tittle of the Old Testament
  5. He would return within the lifetime us those who lived in his time
  6. He came not to bring peace but a sword
  7. If you don't follow him you'll burn in hell for eternity
  8. He promoted the idea that men should castrate themselves to go to heaven
  9. If your eye offends you (lust), pluck it out
  10. Whatever you pray to for will be granted if you truly believe
Rossy92 8 May 30
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Seems like you have already got some answers! That's great! I will also give you some of the verses I looked up just in case there are some different ones. There are many verses in the bible that support what you are saying, here are only a few. They are in the order that you wrote them by number.

  1. Luke 12:22 and Mathew 6:34
  2. Mathew 10:34-36 and Luke 12:51-53
  3. Mathew 10:37
  4. Mathew 5:17-18
  5. Luke 9:27 and Mathew 16:28
  6. Mathew 10:34
  7. Revelation 20:11-15
  8. could not find this one!
  9. Mathew 18:8-9
  10. Luke 11:9
    I will be talking about some of these issues in the future! thanks for your post!
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  1. Take no thought for the 'morrow' Matthew 6:25-34
  2. He came to turn brother against brother Matthew 10
  3. You should love him more than your family Matthew 10
  4. He came to uphold every jot and tittle of the Old Testament Matthew 5:18
  5. He would return within the lifetime us those who lived in his time Matthew 24:34
  6. He came not to bring peace but a sword Matthew 10
  7. If you don't follow him you'll burn in hell for eternity John 14:6
  8. He promoted the idea that men should castrate themselves to go to heaven Matthew 19:12
  9. If your eye offends you (lust), pluck it out Mark 9:47 Matthew 5:29
  10. Whatever you pray to for will be granted if you truly believe Matthew 7:7

these and other disgusting quotes of jesus and his successors litter the new testament

So much in Matthew? Wow! Thanks for the input.

@Rossy92 The gospel of Matthew was written by an unknown Jew attempting to prove to his fellow jews that Jesus of Nazareth was the long prophesied messiah of the Torah, to this end he was willing to quote non existent scriptures, rewrite actual scripture and give Jesus a big more kick ass personality then in the other two synoptic gospels.

@LenHazell53 That's interesting because, from what you said, I would have thought that Matthew was the last of the four gospels, as each successive one tended to make more extravagant claims, at least concerning the supernatural. But from the source I referenced it appears Matthew was one of the middle two.

@Rossy92
The generally agreed order agreed on by historians is that Mark was the first gospel, written by a Jewish follower of Paul, dating from about 60 to 70 AD, it is aimed largely as new converts and is a primer on the life of Christ, the final chapters referring to the resurrection, were not present in the earlies texts we have and were seemingly added somewhere around the 6th century perhaps much later.
Matthew and Luke come from about the same period of time, between 75 and 100 AD, they both quote verbatim from Mark and from one other source, commonly referred to as the Q document. Matthew as I said was a gospel for the Hebrews, Luke however is a gospel for the Romans, stated as being such and by the same author as the Acts, Luke it is summarized was a doctor, a Roman or Roman Citizen and was likely a disciple of Paul.
John's Gospel is much later, quotes from neither Q or Mark, but does seem to have been aware of Matthew and Luke as well as some of the apocryphal gospels.
It is a gospel for the Greek Intelligentsia, contains multiple mentions of Platonic philosophy and is also Stoicism influenced. It is assumed it came from a man using the name John living on the Island of Patmos about 120 to 175 AD.
However it has been discovered recently that it is in fact likely an edited down and sanitised version of an earlier document known as the Levitikon (not to be confused with the book of the same name published in the 19th century) a scripture of the rival sect who followed the Messiahship of John the Baptist and regarded Jesus as a usurper that in some parts of the middle east clings on as the gnostic sect known as the Mandaeins.

@LenHazell53 Thanks!

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I will be looking up where these are in the bible and getting back to you with exact scripture at your request, please give me a few days to do this. thanks

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That's exactly why I created this group! Great points here, and we will be discussing many of them in the future! Thank you for this post!

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