Why has this site seen a huge turn towards Christian shit? It smells waaay off. Like, Russel Brand and all these other influencers turn Christian and this forum becomes overrun with worshippers of the Lord God of Israel via the Jesus psy op.
Why have TPTB decided to shove Christianity down everyones throats and flood boards with Christian bots etc?
Are they trying to strengthen their grip over us spiritually by reinforcing their original deception or what?
We're sheep that need a shephard because humans are stupid, even moreso with the knowledge we 'so' desired. Please stop talking about things you don't 'know', MrEx.
This is NOT what sheep refer to in Scripture!
NOT AT ALL
This is only one of the many things that we as English speakers inherently miss out on, that ANE (ancient near east) culture understood as common knowledge.
David was a shepherd; as such, he had intimate knowledge of sheep. Have you even met a shepherd?
I've never met a shepherd in person. Seem like cool people.
There's a lot we can learn about this online, that gives insight into the whole sheep thing in Scripture.
Basically they are very smart; smart enough that they have distinct personalities. They also are extremely picky about who they trust and who they do not. I guess that makes sense when you're basically lunch on a stick for wolves. And while modern shepherds use guns and sheepdogs in combination, and sheepdogs are some of the most dangerous dogs there are for this exact reason, (they're bred to fight to the death and you aren't breaking their skull which is the guaranteed way to definitely stop most dogs that might attack) Biblical shepherds relied on different techniques.
Those techniques were common knowledge at the time, and therefore never explained in Scripture. I don't remember the details off the top of my head well enough to explain it clearly, but I do recall that it adds a lot of richness to the Word.
Personally, the most interaction I've had with a sheep was getting to the point where one would ram into me because it wanted affection. They are surprisingly forceful, and unsurprisingly related to ... Rams! I was shocked by this at first, and frankly so was the shepherd; sheep don't usually take to someone that quickly.
Mr ex is correct though. Jesus instruction was to become as a child - that is to say, naive and trusting and not to use your critical faculties. You are to be as a sheep and a child, questioning nothing, requiring nothing proven, but to take it all on trust or faith.
This is not good advice. You should absolutely maximise all of your critical faculties in order to be able to spot nonsense and deceit and to discern good advice from bad.
He also said be wise as serpents. I agree with your statement, but also his. See my longer comment.
he did say that, but only to his twelve apostles when sending them out to proselytise. It wasn't general advice to all.
In fact, he purposefully kept his 'sheep' in the dark, revealing his teachings only to his cronies. Thus:
Mat 13:10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. Mat 13:12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath. Mat 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Jesus, pretending to impart wisdom to his followers, was actually just stringing them along whilst purposefully deceiving and confusing them.
Jesus warned his fellow Jews not to give holy things to the dogs (gentiles) or cast their pearls before swine (also gentiles)
at 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
This is also echoed in the story of the Canaanite woman:
Mat 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Mat 15:25 Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord, help me. Mat 15:26 But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs. Mat 15:27 And she said, Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.
The dogs are the gentiles whilst the children are the children of god, the Jews. Only when the Canaanite woman acknowledged the Jews as 'masters' and her own status as a 'dog' did Jesus deign to help.
This is the true Jesus - a thoroughly unpleasant, hateful, racial supremacist literary figure posing as a good guy whilst deceiving even his fellow Jews with unfathomable parables but hoarding his real secrets for his inner crew - just like all secret societies since. He is not a purveyor of truth, but a gatekeeper of it.
Did you have a better teacher than Jesus?
Your methods here are not following logic. (1) "Not general advice" is your assumption; (2) Jesus told the apostles to speak his words from the rooftops, and they did, contrary to your assumptions; (3) "Purposefully deceiving and confusing" is your assumption, as there is no deceit and the parabolic style is not confusion; (4) "Dogs" and "swine" didn't mean Gentiles per se any more than "sheep" or "serpents" meant Israelites, they were metaphors; (5) Jesus praising the woman's great faith and her receiving healing after he tested her sincerity are contrary to your narrative.
But let's imagine your "thoroughly unpleasant, hateful, racial supremacist literary figure posing as a good guy whilst deceiving even his fellow Jews with unfathomable parables but hoarding his real secrets for his inner crew - just like all secret societies since .... not a purveyor of truth, but a gatekeeper of it" for a moment. As I linked from c/Atheist, someone had to have written out the life of this character and to plot out such distinct moral teachings and claims of divinity as were hardly conceivable in those days. It would take a Jesus to invent a Jesus. Someone is there with great truths, and the simplest truths there are not hidden but are clear to children. And when I compare this to every other religious etiology in existence I find this one the best, the fullest, and the incomparable, by many objective standards. The Bible's Jesus requires us either to accept his ways or to despair of finding anyone whose ways can be accepted. That's the choice I ask you when I redirect you to whether you are willing to pursue the truth wherever it leads.
This is completely false.
This is proven extensively through Scripture - but again this is not something that can be addressed quickly and easily.
Why are you even responding at all if everything you say can be summed up as ‘I would provide an answer, but it is too laborious’
You can't summarize anything I've said that way.
He’s a zionist shill
Yeah have you ever even met a shepherd you fucking moron?!?
Not in person.
Don’t tell me that, tell that to your assistant pastor who asked hours before me, who I was merely humorously quoting
Ok.
You don't know what any of these words mean.
Including "quoting," a concept you've never grasped.