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testallthings · 01-27-2016, 02:18 AM

A TEXT, TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT, IS A PRETEXT, FOR PROOFTEXT

Mat. 1:1 And when he saw the crowds, He went up to the mountain. And after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. (RcV)

“When the new King sat down on the mountain, His disciples, not the crowds, came to be His audience. Eventually, not only the believing Jews but also the discipled nations (the Gentiles—28:19) became His disciples. Later the disciples were called Christians (Acts 11:26). Hence, the word the new King spoke on the mountains in chs. 5—7, concerning the constitution of the kingdom of the heavens, was spoken to the believers of the New Testament, not to the Jews of the Old Testament.” (footnote 1.2)

I am jumping to chapter 5 now. I have something to say about Jesus' baptism but it will take me a while before I post it.

So let's analyze this footnote. The first things we notice is the really small audience. If you ever watched a movie about Jesus then you got it all wrong. The sermon on the mountain was only for His disciples, maybe 12 or 70? and not for the crowds, too. Is it really so? In the previous verse it is stated that, “And great crowds followed Him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan” (Mat. 4:25, RcV). Great crowds followed Him. So the Lord Jesus without dismissing the crowds sat down on the mountain. The message was intended for His disciples (who sat closer to Him) and the crowds. And so, “28 And when Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astounded at His teaching, 29 For He taught them as One having authority and not like their scribes” ( Mat. 7:28-29, RcV). The crowds were astounded! Were they not part of His audience?

In Luke we have a clearer picture, “17 And He came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a great crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of people from Judea and Jerusalem and of the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases...19And all the crowd sought to touch Him....20 And He lifted up His eyes to His disciples and said, Blessed are the poor....” (Luke 6:17-20). Even if some suggested that Luke's account describes a different occasion (see footnotes on Mattew 5:2 and Luke 6:20 in the Companion Bible), what is stated in Matthew is sufficient to prove our point. In any case at the end of His discourse it is stated, “After He completed all His words in the hearing of the people, He entered in Capernaum” (Luke 7:1, RcV). In the hearing of the people!

READING THE FUTURE INTO THE PAST

I have another point to make about the second part of this unbelievable footnote. It is about the contorted logic which has been used to “demonstrate” that the audience were Christians. If anyone today would dare to say that the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts), a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1776 after the Boston Tea party, against the Thirteen Colonies were meant for todays 50 States of U.S.A. .....I better stop here.

01-27-2016, 02:18 AM	#81
testallthings Member Join Date: Dec 2015 Posts: 297	Re: Putting To Test The Recovery Version A TEXT, TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT, IS A PRETEXT, FOR PROOFTEXT Mat. 1:1 And when he saw the crowds, He went up to the mountain. And after He sat down, His disciples came to Him. (RcV) “When the new King sat down on the mountain, His disciples, not the crowds, came to be His audience. Eventually, not only the believing Jews but also the discipled nations (the Gentiles—28:19) became His disciples. Later the disciples were called Christians (Acts 11:26). Hence, the word the new King spoke on the mountains in chs. 5—7, concerning the constitution of the kingdom of the heavens, was spoken to the believers of the New Testament, not to the Jews of the Old Testament.” (footnote 1.2) I am jumping to chapter 5 now. I have something to say about Jesus' baptism but it will take me a while before I post it. So let's analyze this footnote. The first things we notice is the really small audience. If you ever watched a movie about Jesus then you got it all wrong. The sermon on the mountain was only for His disciples, maybe 12 or 70? and not for the crowds, too. Is it really so? In the previous verse it is stated that, “And great crowds followed Him from Galilee and Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan” (Mat. 4:25, RcV). Great crowds followed Him. So the Lord Jesus without dismissing the crowds sat down on the mountain. The message was intended for His disciples (who sat closer to Him) and the crowds. And so, “28 And when Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astounded at His teaching, 29 For He taught them as One having authority and not like their scribes” ( Mat. 7:28-29, RcV). The crowds were astounded! Were they not part of His audience? In Luke we have a clearer picture, “17 And He came down with them and stood on a level place; and there was a great crowd of His disciples, and a great multitude of people from Judea and Jerusalem and of the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who had come to hear Him and to be healed of their diseases...19And all the crowd sought to touch Him....20 And He lifted up His eyes to His disciples and said, Blessed are the poor....” (Luke 6:17-20). Even if some suggested that Luke's account describes a different occasion (see footnotes on Mattew 5:2 and Luke 6:20 in the Companion Bible), what is stated in Matthew is sufficient to prove our point. In any case at the end of His discourse it is stated, “After He completed all His words in the hearing of the people, He entered in Capernaum” (Luke 7:1, RcV). In the hearing of the people! READING THE FUTURE INTO THE PAST I have another point to make about the second part of this unbelievable footnote. It is about the contorted logic which has been used to “demonstrate” that the audience were Christians. If anyone today would dare to say that the Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts), a series of punitive laws passed by the British Parliament in 1776 after the Boston Tea party, against the Thirteen Colonies were meant for todays 50 States of U.S.A. .....I better stop here.