Some right-wingers say they love Jesus, seeing him as their personal savior and claim they want to re-make the U.S. into a “Christian” nation. However, when one reads the New Testament, one wonders which texts they’re reading. (quotes from KJV).
Here are prominent quotes from the liberal Jesus they eschew:
“Ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.” [J 13:14]
“Judge not, that ye be not judged.” [MT 7:1]
“Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” [L 6:41]
“Blessed are the peacemakers” [MT 5:9]
“Behold the fowls … they sow not, … yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.” [MT 6:26]
“He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.” [J 8:7]
“But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need,
and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?” [J 3:17]
“Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages … healing every sickness and every disease among the people.” [MT 9:35]
“Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” [MT 23:28]
“Make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.” [J 2:16]
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” [MT 19:24]
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” [MT 22:39]
“When thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.” [MT 6:5]
“I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.” [MT 12:7]
“They need not depart; give ye them to eat.” [MT 14:16]
“Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! For ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.” [L 11:46]
“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required:
and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.” [L 12:48]
“All ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” [MT 11:28]
“Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” [MT 11:28]
“Depart from me, ye cursed … for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink …” [MT 25:41]
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.” [MT 23:27-28]
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