Vanderhoven7
Pete, your rant is all over the place and yet you did not answer my question. Again, what kind of a world would we live in if people repented of such "thought crimes" as you put it, and sought to fulfill the teachings of Jesus in the sermon on the mount?
Vander—do you know what the word “rant’ means? Let me help you understand the definition;
verb: speak or shout at length in a wild, impassioned way.
There is a difference between “rant” and explaining- reasoning- debunking.
Now here’s the thing------I did answer it, but you don’t get it.
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Or—is it possible that this fear found in the bible and attributed to Jesus was an “IDEA” created later by the writers of the Gospels, to Create an Imaginary Illness-- so they could sell an Imaginary Cure, and keep the masses under their control, siphoning as much money and life as possible from the gullible?
Even though Christian apologists and most lay Christians assume on the basis of 4th century Church teaching that the gospels were written by the Evangelists c.50-65 AD, ----- the scholarly consensus is that they are the work of unknown Christians and were composed c.68-110 AD.
That’s almost 40 years after Jesus died. Considering all the evidence of bible scholars, it is more likely that Jesus was misquoted many times by the writers of the Gospels who never met Jesus to begin with.
Human Nature hasn’t changed much in 2000 years, so the way stories were told back then about Jesus—some 40 years AFTER THE FACT, is no different than the stories told by the media today with regards to Trump and Biden. The stories about Trump and Biden just this year alone are so far-fetched that the majority of people in the USA have had it with the media and have lost all trust and faith in them.
Now imagine the stories about Trump and Biden 40 years from now! Someone will probably say that Trump walked on water!
Now imagine the stories of Jesus 2000 years ago that were written about 40 years after Jesus was long gone into the dust. This was a time when there existed no videos, phone cameras, or recording microphones that could record all the sayings and events of Jesus.
In such an environment as this where only word of mouth was the source, it would be easy for anyone to create, misquote, or just plain out lie about any kind of story and make it seem believable.
Why a person under this situation might even be able to convince the masses who for the most part couldn’t even read, ------that someone could walk on water!
HEADS UP, HERE’S THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION.
That being the case, why would anyone repent from a Thought Crime that was construed by some UNKNOWN WRITER as a SIN---deserving – not of death----but instead ---being thrown in an EVERLASTING HELL FIRE, to be smoldering ablaze and writhing in pain forever and ever!!
That’s actually laughable as I write it.
Humans were created for one reason and that is to procreate, and attraction to the opposite sex is natural.
THINKING AND DOING are two completely different things. It doesn’t take a brain to see that it’s ludicrous to make someone believe that punishing someone with everlasting fire for THINKING about a woman he finds attractive------is a good and righteous thing.
You asked the question; what kind of a world would we live in if people repented of such "thought crimes"
I’ll ask you this question; (What kind of a world would we live in if Jesus’s words WERE TRUE, and every human who ever had a passionate thought of someone of the opposite sex was thrown into THE LAKE OF FIRE to burn forever?)
Life would be a living Hell for every Human ever born as billions would be writhing in anguish this very moment.
If God truly loved his human creation, then as I mentioned above;
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If anything, an Omniscient God who knows Everything, would know better than to create an intense desire for humans to procreate. A God that knows Everything and can do Anything would be able to create humans with a system where once a man finds a mate, something inside his brain would click and stop any desire for any other women as his sex object.
There are literally tons of animals that have this mechanism built into them, ------why couldn’t the Creator do like wise with humans? And these animals still have free will to do as they please.
Then there would be no need to “REPENT OF A THOUGHT CRIME-----would there!