Sermon on the mount

[Wootah]

What was the point of this sermon?

[Monta]

[2timothy316]

[Replying to post 20 by Monta]

I made a more in depth post here. viewtopic.php?p=913894#913894

[dio9]

What was the point of this sermon?

The point was to show Jesus as the new law giver , the new Moses if you will. This is a rewrite of the law as Jesus said "I have come to fulfill the Law. Then Jesus goes on to give his take on the commandments murder, adultery , divorce, oaths , eye for an eye , and love thy enemies. The point is Jesus raises understanding of the laws to the new testament level. Its all right there clear in Matthew's Chapters 5 and 6 .

[Wootah]

What was the point of this sermon?

The point was to show Jesus as the new law giver , the new Moses if you will. This is a rewrite of the law as Jesus said "I have come to fulfill the Law. Then Jesus goes on to give his take on the commandments murder, adultery , divorce, oaths , eye for an eye , and love thy enemies. The point is Jesus raises understanding of the laws to the new testament level. Its all right there clear in Matthew's Chapters 5 and 6 .

If God gave Moses the law but Jesus spoke the update, who gave the update to Jesus?

[2timothy316]

[dio9]

What was the point of this sermon?

The point was to show Jesus as the new law giver , the new Moses if you will. This is a rewrite of the law as Jesus said "I have come to fulfill the Law. Then Jesus goes on to give his take on the commandments murder, adultery , divorce, oaths , eye for an eye , and love thy enemies. The point is Jesus raises understanding of the laws to the new testament level. Its all right there clear in Matthew's Chapters 5 and 6 .

If God gave Moses the law but Jesus spoke the update, who gave the update to Jesus?

God of course. Its a case of different strokes for different folks.

[FWI]

[dio9]

[bluethread]

The writer of Matthew states in verses 28-29 of chapter 5 that the people were astonish at these teachings and realized that he (the Christ) taught as one having authority, beyond that which the scribes had.

This is just a good point to chime in on. The "sermon" is basically his initial midrash(teaching) as a rabbi, outlining the characteristics of His shul. This would generally be nothing peculiar. The reason that the others were astonished is that the traditional practice is for a rabbi to quote his rabbi and then comment on what his rabbi said. However, Yeshua did not support His teaching with the teachings of previous rabbis, but simply stated His views. On the contrary, he refers to the teachings of other rabbis and corrects them. He doesn't even refer to HaTorah, though I do not think anything he says is contrary to Torah.

[marco]

What was the point of this sermon?

It is a sermon to enlist the support of the downtrodden multitudes, the no-hopers, those burdened with tax, those who were born poor and will stay poor, those with no voice. Communism had that same appeal to the masses. It is the substance of revolutions.

There is absolutely no evidence that the promises will ever be fulfilled, but that's not important. Hope is a fire that supplies warmth. And that is good enough for billions - it would seem.