Matt 18:9 Was Jesus being literal with this statement?
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שלום עליכם
Shalom, God's peace be with you.
I'm sure it's a metaphor, because we can still sin with one eye or leg, if the passion is working in our heart. Even if we castrate ourselves, the passion will bring us to fall in another way. So in our tradition we have an interpretation that Jesus here is talking about breaking relationship with our close friends, if they seduce us to sin.
We also are called to wisely mortify our sinful passions that cause us to sin. We do this by means of moderate asceticism.
God be with you. Praise Jesus.
Shalom, God's peace be with you.
I'm sure it's a metaphor, because we can still sin with one eye or leg, if the passion is working in our heart. Even if we castrate ourselves, the passion will bring us to fall in another way. So in our tradition we have an interpretation that Jesus here is talking about breaking relationship with our close friends, if they seduce us to sin.
We also are called to wisely mortify our sinful passions that cause us to sin. We do this by means of moderate asceticism.
God be with you. Praise Jesus.
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It can be without Spiritual understanding ------this is all about God's Judgment --Jesus is using a hyperbole communication here to show how serious it is for believers not to be tempted into sin -----the wages of sin is eternal death and believers are not to have a casual attitude about sin -----
So Jesus is saying if your one eye causes you to be tempted into sinning then you would be better off taking out the eye that caused you to sin and go to heaven with one sinless eye then to keep sinning like the unbeliever does and be thrown into the fire of hell -----
Remember ---we are in the Old Testament and Jesus is just teaching His disciples about how they are to rightly act and how dangerous sin is to their having eternal life --
He definitely wasn't being literal, because the Bible, which he inspired, says that our body is a temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 3:16,17). Since we must take care of our bodies, what could he have meant? I think that he is showing very dramatically and clearly the problem of sinful conduct and that it must never be minimized.
I agree there was another situation when he taught them to eat his flesh and drink his blood some took him literally and departed because they took it as he was teaching then to literally eat his flesh and drink his blood So they thought we’ll this is too hard a teaching we can’t accept it and parted Jesus answers like this
“He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
…Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.”
John 6:56, 60-61, 63, 66
I agree with what you said we need to look for the spirit and lessons he’s teaching us in his word
“He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
…Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.”
John 6:56, 60-61, 63, 66
I agree with what you said we need to look for the spirit and lessons he’s teaching us in his word
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