There's nothing wrong with the Greek New Testament. The problem is that religious institutions have rewritten it to suit their needs over the last 2,000 years.
The Jewish race once divided their law into two groups: Justices (acts of kindness) and Jobs (religious rules). Jesus came along and declared that the Justices alone are the Law. (Mt. 7:12-14, 19:16-19, 25:31-46). He abolished all religious rules. Paul taught the same thing but his message has been rewritten in modern 'translations.'
@PaulOnHomosexuality "Jesus came along"....yes, sure he did......just bobbed by one day and went 'hullo, don't follow the guord, follow the broken flip flop'.....sorry, but it's all tosh.....
@PaulOnHomosexuality - Yeh but 'those words' were spread by a church who took land and wealth under a cross, burned women as Witches, and STILL persecutes homosexuality....I find most Christians to behave in the most unchristian manner towards fellow human beings......As soon as Christians adopt a 'live and let live' attitude (i.e practice what they preach) then I may just accept their right to believe in a cloud god....until then though..I deny it. Strongly. You Are Wrong.
@CarlBewley You say I'm wrong yet I agree with everything you wrote. I'm not defending institutions that hijacked Jesus' name and then did the very opposite of what he taught.
Jesus told people to throw out religious rules and regulations in order to focus on loving everyone as much as we love ourselves. The rest of his apostles taught the same thing... including the Apostle Paul. But Paul's words have been changed in the translations by the same institutions that reject Jesus.
@Cutie9326 - doesn't even make sense that, read it back...typical gobbledygook spun by deluded, misguided and lost people with nothing better to do than preach.
Nice Video. Its so important to counter all the hatred and intolerance in the world today. So many think that God has any love at all for violence and judgement and hatred. They think that they have the answer to what God wants, and refuse to listen to reason of any kind. If ever there were any reason for war, it is to war against the evil of man, found in his hatred and judgement and intolerance of others for religion, sexuality, thought, anything at all. It is said the only way is through love
That is what Jesus taught. How could anyone confuse "Pray for your enemies", with "Kill your enemies."? It is those who harm and destroy with the word rather than listening to the SPIRIT of His message who harm mankind, and through that, God Himself, the most. It is clear, though it is hard not to succumb to hatred of such people, that the line between right and wrong, just and unjust, righteous and unrighteous, is found in the line between love and hatred, compassion and judgement.
If two men or two women wish to lie together, it neither skins my knee nor stubs my toe. If God wishes it to not be, then God can do his own dirty work of judging and hating. Such a god who would behave in such a fashion is not mine god. Any who would fear such a statement cannot hear well enough to claim anything but cowardice. For what does far more than stub a toe or skin a knee is violence, hatred, and judgement based in self-righteousness, bigotry, and FEAR of those who are not as we are.
@shanonjhall God create humans to procreate, not to fornicate. He created sex to found a family, not for selfish pleasure and homosexuality He calls an abomination. Paul says homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom, they will have to be purged of their sinful filth before they are allowed into heaven. People must obey God and when they don't, they hurt, get all kinds of diseases and suffer the consequences of their stubborness and foolishness.
@Cutie9326 - and therein lies your biggest problem. GOD did not write 'that' book....men did. Men who wanted to control the population by creating fear, doubt and persecution of the weak or different.....Tell me Cutie, if sex isn't for pleasure, why is it pleasurable? i suggest you've never had a good er ...seeing to if you don't see it that way. Chill out, get laid more :)
@Cutie9326 And if someone doesn't want to have a family? What are they to do if they can't love one another in one of the most intimate of ways without fear of being judged because sex is only for those who pursue a family?
And Jesus preaches love, does he not? The Bible says not to judge lest you be judged back?
Homosexuals may not inherit the Earth but while they're still here they should be able to pursue happiness in peace, and if that offends you then you have something wrong with you.
@Cutie9326 Are you African American? I have found blacks to be generally a very God loving people, and I respect that alot. but I dont see much tolerance inherent generally in letting homosexuals live as they want to live. Now you tell me, how does it hurt you if bob wants to lay with jason? Me, Im straight, but why should I spend my time putting hatred out into the world that God created. Created so that I may learn the value of love and compassion, especially when it is hardest to do so?
@shanonjhall Do you not realize that the Klan used the bible to prove that blacks were meant to be slaves, or at least inferior to the white race. Do you not realize how much pain and suffering our black ancestors suffered in such judgement and hatred when they tried to stand up for their own rights? Is being black anything like being Gay, of course not. but i can tell you that hatred and judgement of anything, is simply hatred and judgement, and you can quote the bible and call it-
@shanonjhall -divine all day long, just as you were taught by another human to believe, but that doesnt make a lick of difference when you stand before God, filled with His perfect love and compassion, and see what your condemnation of his children, gay or black or white or Muslim or elderly or sick or poor or atheist etc.... has done in this gifted to you life, and are simply unable to deny the fact that it was easier to judge and feel safe than to have the courage to love without condition.
@shanonjhall I do not wish to judge or condemn you for the harm you must surely see you are doing, but I would ask you on behalf of all you judge to use the intellegence and discernment God gifted you with, as His child, even when looking at a thousands of year old book, one of many called "the word of God". If we are to give our children a world, as were we given such a gift, then we must simply put such willfully destructive behavior aside and focus instead on that which we have in common.
@shanonjhall I can tell you, I am much more written by the hand of God than is than any bible, and that being the case, perhaps these words spoken to you from my heart will stir at least some desire to ask Him DIRECTLY to show you the truth of what He feels to towards homosexuals truly. Is it not arrogance for you to walk among His children and proclaim yourself to be His police force, his right hand on what His will is among us?
Exodus 22:18: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Exodus 22:20: "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. they must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
Psalms 79:6: "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name."
@kyle887923 ...and from the New Testament, Gentle Jesus denounces Judaism...
John 8:44: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
The Bible was not written by God, but by man...and rewritten and rewritten......The Christians stole from the Jews, The muslims from both....
@kyle887923 - It's easy to follow a book of rules - but for an accident of birth your beliefs could be very different, a thousand miles to the east of you, and you would denounce everything you currently live by. Jesus would be a prophet only and Allah your God.....what makes you think only your rules are right then? all religions suck, free yourself, be spiritual by all means and worship invisible non answering gods but not because a plagiarised book tells you too. Peace and love...
There's nothing wrong with the Greek New Testament. The problem is that religious institutions have rewritten it to suit their needs over the last 2,000 years.
The Jewish race once divided their law into two groups: Justices (acts of kindness) and Jobs (religious rules). Jesus came along and declared that the Justices alone are the Law. (Mt. 7:12-14, 19:16-19, 25:31-46). He abolished all religious rules. Paul taught the same thing but his message has been rewritten in modern 'translations.'
PaulOnHomosexuality 1 month ago
@PaulOnHomosexuality "Jesus came along"....yes, sure he did......just bobbed by one day and went 'hullo, don't follow the guord, follow the broken flip flop'.....sorry, but it's all tosh.....
CarlBewley 1 month ago
@CarlBewley I appreciate your opinion. But I don't think anyone who teaches "love your neighbor as yourself" is all tosh. That's my opinion.
PaulOnHomosexuality 1 month ago
@PaulOnHomosexuality - Yeh but 'those words' were spread by a church who took land and wealth under a cross, burned women as Witches, and STILL persecutes homosexuality....I find most Christians to behave in the most unchristian manner towards fellow human beings......As soon as Christians adopt a 'live and let live' attitude (i.e practice what they preach) then I may just accept their right to believe in a cloud god....until then though..I deny it. Strongly. You Are Wrong.
CarlBewley 1 month ago
@CarlBewley You say I'm wrong yet I agree with everything you wrote. I'm not defending institutions that hijacked Jesus' name and then did the very opposite of what he taught.
Jesus told people to throw out religious rules and regulations in order to focus on loving everyone as much as we love ourselves. The rest of his apostles taught the same thing... including the Apostle Paul. But Paul's words have been changed in the translations by the same institutions that reject Jesus.
PaulOnHomosexuality 1 month ago
@PaulOnHomosexuality Were that the truth, I would be a Christian
shadowhunter144 3 weeks ago
i aam glad that god hates fags i just stopped smoking
stevechandler1 1 month ago
Many thanks for this video , i totally agree with you Carl ! my only religion is love , and i don't need any God to tell me what i have to do .
isabellle87 2 months ago
@isabellle87 - Me and you both Isabelle - great comment.
CarlBewley 2 months ago
@isabellle87 All human righteousness is but filthy rags. No one is can love and do good apart from God...
Cutie9326 2 months ago
@Cutie9326 - doesn't even make sense that, read it back...typical gobbledygook spun by deluded, misguided and lost people with nothing better to do than preach.
CarlBewley 2 months ago
Nice Video. Its so important to counter all the hatred and intolerance in the world today. So many think that God has any love at all for violence and judgement and hatred. They think that they have the answer to what God wants, and refuse to listen to reason of any kind. If ever there were any reason for war, it is to war against the evil of man, found in his hatred and judgement and intolerance of others for religion, sexuality, thought, anything at all. It is said the only way is through love
shanonjhall 3 months ago
That is what Jesus taught. How could anyone confuse "Pray for your enemies", with "Kill your enemies."? It is those who harm and destroy with the word rather than listening to the SPIRIT of His message who harm mankind, and through that, God Himself, the most. It is clear, though it is hard not to succumb to hatred of such people, that the line between right and wrong, just and unjust, righteous and unrighteous, is found in the line between love and hatred, compassion and judgement.
shanonjhall 3 months ago
If two men or two women wish to lie together, it neither skins my knee nor stubs my toe. If God wishes it to not be, then God can do his own dirty work of judging and hating. Such a god who would behave in such a fashion is not mine god. Any who would fear such a statement cannot hear well enough to claim anything but cowardice. For what does far more than stub a toe or skin a knee is violence, hatred, and judgement based in self-righteousness, bigotry, and FEAR of those who are not as we are.
shanonjhall 3 months ago
@shanonjhall God create humans to procreate, not to fornicate. He created sex to found a family, not for selfish pleasure and homosexuality He calls an abomination. Paul says homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom, they will have to be purged of their sinful filth before they are allowed into heaven. People must obey God and when they don't, they hurt, get all kinds of diseases and suffer the consequences of their stubborness and foolishness.
Cutie9326 2 months ago
@Cutie9326 - and therein lies your biggest problem. GOD did not write 'that' book....men did. Men who wanted to control the population by creating fear, doubt and persecution of the weak or different.....Tell me Cutie, if sex isn't for pleasure, why is it pleasurable? i suggest you've never had a good er ...seeing to if you don't see it that way. Chill out, get laid more :)
CarlBewley 2 months ago
@Cutie9326 And if someone doesn't want to have a family? What are they to do if they can't love one another in one of the most intimate of ways without fear of being judged because sex is only for those who pursue a family?
And Jesus preaches love, does he not? The Bible says not to judge lest you be judged back?
Homosexuals may not inherit the Earth but while they're still here they should be able to pursue happiness in peace, and if that offends you then you have something wrong with you.
PACMANnot 2 months ago
@Cutie9326 Are you African American? I have found blacks to be generally a very God loving people, and I respect that alot. but I dont see much tolerance inherent generally in letting homosexuals live as they want to live. Now you tell me, how does it hurt you if bob wants to lay with jason? Me, Im straight, but why should I spend my time putting hatred out into the world that God created. Created so that I may learn the value of love and compassion, especially when it is hardest to do so?
shanonjhall 2 months ago
@shanonjhall Do you not realize that the Klan used the bible to prove that blacks were meant to be slaves, or at least inferior to the white race. Do you not realize how much pain and suffering our black ancestors suffered in such judgement and hatred when they tried to stand up for their own rights? Is being black anything like being Gay, of course not. but i can tell you that hatred and judgement of anything, is simply hatred and judgement, and you can quote the bible and call it-
shanonjhall 2 months ago
@shanonjhall -divine all day long, just as you were taught by another human to believe, but that doesnt make a lick of difference when you stand before God, filled with His perfect love and compassion, and see what your condemnation of his children, gay or black or white or Muslim or elderly or sick or poor or atheist etc.... has done in this gifted to you life, and are simply unable to deny the fact that it was easier to judge and feel safe than to have the courage to love without condition.
shanonjhall 2 months ago
@shanonjhall I do not wish to judge or condemn you for the harm you must surely see you are doing, but I would ask you on behalf of all you judge to use the intellegence and discernment God gifted you with, as His child, even when looking at a thousands of year old book, one of many called "the word of God". If we are to give our children a world, as were we given such a gift, then we must simply put such willfully destructive behavior aside and focus instead on that which we have in common.
shanonjhall 2 months ago
@shanonjhall I can tell you, I am much more written by the hand of God than is than any bible, and that being the case, perhaps these words spoken to you from my heart will stir at least some desire to ask Him DIRECTLY to show you the truth of what He feels to towards homosexuals truly. Is it not arrogance for you to walk among His children and proclaim yourself to be His police force, his right hand on what His will is among us?
shanonjhall 2 months ago
"Love thy neighbour as thy self" -Jesus
"So love one another as I have loved you, this is the greatest law of the prophets" -Jesus
"Do not judge and you shall not be Judged, for in the manner you Judge others, it shall be measured back to you" -Jesus
"All those who live by the sword shall die by the sword" -Jesus
"Pray for those who persecute you" -Jesus
"Love is the fulfilement of the law" -Jesus
Although Chrisitans may have done bad stuff in the past, Christianity cannot be blaimed.
kyle887923 4 months ago
@kyle887923 -
Exodus 22:18: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Exodus 22:20: "He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed."
Leviticus 20:13: "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. they must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
Psalms 79:6: "Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name."
CarlBewley 4 months ago
@kyle887923 ...and from the New Testament, Gentle Jesus denounces Judaism...
John 8:44: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
The Bible was not written by God, but by man...and rewritten and rewritten......The Christians stole from the Jews, The muslims from both....
CarlBewley 4 months ago
@kyle887923 - It's easy to follow a book of rules - but for an accident of birth your beliefs could be very different, a thousand miles to the east of you, and you would denounce everything you currently live by. Jesus would be a prophet only and Allah your God.....what makes you think only your rules are right then? all religions suck, free yourself, be spiritual by all means and worship invisible non answering gods but not because a plagiarised book tells you too. Peace and love...
CarlBewley 4 months ago
A beautiful, fresh rendition of this song! The video is also stunning!
ImNoDylan 8 months ago
@ImNoDylan - Ta . . . it is a great version of the song . . it inspired the video!
CarlBewley 8 months ago
Absolutely brilliant!
catgivens 8 months ago
Well done, Carl.
Growlertrim 8 months ago