As I've said, Christians selectively read their books. They love Matthew 5:17 and make love to that verse, yet they pretend that Matthew 5:18-20 isn't in the Bible at all. Christians despise Matthew 5:18-20 that much.
Thanks for bringing that up.
Perhaps it would be beneficial to go through those verses together, to illustrate the absurdity and illogic so-called Christians employ so they can continue pretending to love Christ while directly disregarding His Words and disobeying Him.
Christ instructed everyone not to even think that He came to destroy The Law because He did
NOT come to do that. So how could "Christians" believe that their preachers, who God considers to be the lowest of the low (the “least”)
CON so many into believing The Law has been destroyed despite the fact we are all still here?
Matthew 5:17-20
5:17
Think not that I am come to destroy The Law (1)
, or the Prophets: I am not come to destroy (2)
, but to fulfill(3).
5:18
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no way pass from The Law (4)
, till all be fulfilled.
5:19
Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least COMMANDments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in The Kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach [them], the same shall be called great in The Kingdom of heaven.
5:20
For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall EXCEED [the righteousness] of the scribes [lawyers] and pharisees [politicians], ye shall in no case enter into The Kingdom of heaven.
In verse 17, Christ states not once but
THREE TIMES in the same sentence that He did
NOT come to destroy The Law (or the Prophets who came before him and after him, who
all taught The Law).
In verse 18, Christ confirms that The Law will still be in effect long after His Ascension, to leave
NO DOUBT that The Law is still in effect today. All that anyone needs to do is open their eyes and observe we are all still here; thus the Earth has clearly not passed away and neither has The Law.
So what do “Christians” do? They take the word “fulfill” and redefine that word to mean “Christ did it for us, because we can't, so there's no need for any of us to keep The Law anymore”. It's not only completely ridiculous, but it's calling Christ a liar and claiming He contradicted Himself
within the same sentence. In summary, this is what “Christians” are actually reading into those two verses (Matt. 5:17-18).
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“Christian” interpretation of
Matt. 5:17-18: Do
NOT think I came to destroy The Law because I did
NOT come to destroy The Law, but I am going to destroy The Law, even though The Law shall in
NO WAY be destroyed before Heaven and Earth are.
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How absurd!
The Greek word that has been translated into English as “fulfill” was “pleroo”. In the original Greek there are six possible meanings for that word, five of which render the verse (17) to be self-contradictory. The only one that doesn't is
TO FULLY PREACH, which is exactly what Christ was doing with regard to The Law (
John 5:42-47).
Strong's #4137: pleroo (pronounced play-ro'-o)
from 4134;
1. to make replete, i.e. (literally)
2. to cram (a net), level up (a hollow), or (figuratively) to furnish (or imbue, diffuse, influence),
3. satisfy, execute (an office), finish (a period or task),
4. verify (or coincide with a prediction), etc.:--accomplish, X after, (be) complete, end, expire,
5. fill (up), fulfil, (be, make) full (come),
6.
fully preach, perfect, supply.
The passage continues in verse 19 by clearly stating that those who keep The Commandments of God (His Law) and teach others to do the same will be considered to be great in God's Eyes, while those who do NOT keep The Commandments and teach others it's okay for us to break them – purportedly because no one can keep them – will be considered to be the lowest of the low in God's Eyes.
So what do the so-called Christian priests, pastors, etc. do? They teach people to break The Commandments!
Any “Christian” who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves. That is exactly what the “Christian” churches are teaching by telling everyone it's impossible to keep The Commandments (God's Law) which is an obvious
LIE. Of course anyone who points out their hypocrisy is immediately attacked with a barage of logical fallacies and pathetic excuse-making. Like the false equivalency of people choosing to continue breaking The Law somehow being proof that it's impossible to keep The Law.
We are all quite capable of abstaining from murder. We can all abstain from adultery. We can all abstain from lying, cheating, stealing and bearing false witness against each other. And, with enough faith, we are all quite capable of enforcing The Law. So anyone pretending that it's somehow impossible to keep The Law needs to ask themselves what exactly is so difficult about it, along with how they could have been duped into thinking our
ALL-Knowing God somehow gave us something we couldn't do, and then punished us for not doing the impossible.
It's so utterly preposterous it's actually impressive, in a way, that Satan has been able to so easily manipulate the minds of so many to see everything upside down and backwards, to think that Father (God) is a sadistic tyrant Who supposedly wants us to disobey Him so He can punish us. How satanic!
Which brings us to verse 20. The terms “scribe” and “pharisee” in most Bibles have been left unstranslated into English, to hide the fact that the “scribes” were the lawyers and the “pharisees” were the politicians 2000 years ago. Once it is understood, the verse makes perfect sense.
Legislative bodies (e.g. Congress, Parliaments, etc.) are filled with politicians, who make up rules in direct violation of Father's Law (
Deut. 4:2,
12:32), which is a capital crime under The Law (
Deut. 17:11-13). Many politicians (if not most) are also lawyers, as are the black-robed judges, who take those made-up rules and manipulate them in the courts to see just how far they can stretch the limits of what is considered “legal”. Another (and more suitable) name for lawyers is attorneys, which literally means “one who twists and turns”. A “lawyer” has about as much to do with The Law as “Christians” have to do with
Christ's Teachings.
Most people intuitively know that what is considered “legal” is frequently
NOT moral, and yet we continue to allow these lawyers and politicians to commit capital crimes every single day, in every single nation, legislative body and courtroom around the world. Why? Because people are too afraid (lack faith –
Luke 18:8) to keep and enforce The Law.
This is exactly why verse 20 is clearly stating that there is absolutely
NO CHANCE that
ANY politician or lawyer/attorney/barrister will ever enter the Kingdom of Heaven
UNLESS they repent of their evil ways (stop committing all of these crimes/sins).
No law-breaker can be a law-enforcer (or administrator).
The entire world has chosen of its own free-will to try to do things our own way instead of Father's Way, which is the
RIGHT Way. Just look at the mess we've made of this beautiful world as the direct result of our arrogance/ignorance.
Every prophet Father has sent has brought exactly the same message: stop doing things your own way (
Deut. 12:8), which is the
WRONG way, and start doing things Father's Way.
The Old Covenant, New Covenant and the Koran are
REPLETE with one universal message:
OBEY GOD ONLY (
Deut. 27:26,
Thom. 2:14-16,
Acts 5:29,
Sura 24:51-52).
When the few who are willing to learn some humility become enough like Jesus (the Example), we will be released from this prison-planet reform school for the criminally insane. Father would
never release a bunch of unrepentant criminals into the law-abiding society that exists everywhere else in the Universe.
That's why we
MUST remember and return to keeping and enforcing God's Law
ONLY (
Mal. 4).
