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CountCorvinus posted...

You didn't get very far into Matthew did you? It's literally the first book of the New Testament. Come back after you read through Chapter 5.

The sermon on the mount? Sure he makes some call backs to old testament stuff in there, but even then there's still some radical takes on it if you take the times into account, such as the bit about loving your enemies and whatnot. I mean there was a reason he was hated. He went against a lot of stuff that was taught.

I also wanna restate the word "generally". I'm not a fan of all the stuff he went on about but yes, in general he was progressive compared to the times.

Like when the pharisees came at him trying to trick him with asking what he would do if a goat fell in a ditch on the sabbath. He said to go save it and they were like ah hah, but you're not supposed to work. And then Jesus said the life of the goat was greater than the letter of the law. Or something like that. I'm summarizing here.

But yeah in a general sense he was tamer than old testament mentalities, and it's not like I'm the only one who believes that. I mean he went and ate with a prostitute when old testament mentality would say to stone her. C'mon.