Commandments?

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-29-2018, 05:12 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The evangelicals are often poor souls who have lost their way. They do say just as David says they do; it's not a stereotype, vile or otherwise. Although I'm sure evangelicals can be fine people, and Jesus said don't judge our fellows. All we can do is wait for them to wake up, and meanwhile take the moats out of our own eyes if we can.

Apple Dictionary Wrote:Stereotype:  a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing: the stereotype of the woman as the carer

Apple Dictionary Wrote:Vile: extremely unpleasant: he has a vile temper | vile smells.
• morally bad; wicked: as vile a rogue as ever lived.
• archaic of little worth or value.

I just find the simplification of what all evangelicals believe to be vile.  Whenever you lump all your opponents into one unpleasant bucket you are inviting error.

(08-29-2018, 05:12 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Meanwhile, what did Jesus say? "Keep the commandments." But he also seemed to narrow them down to two; not to "accept me as your savior", but "love God and love your neighbor as yourself." But then, for many evangelicals, the Bible is often not for actual reading; it's just for using as a political and/or religious weapon. Or why don't they quote that, instead of interpreting his other sayings to mean "accept Jesus as the only savior?"

I don't read it as Jesus killing commandments, but on emphasizing a few important ones.  I note also that he commanded love, an emotion, which would go with respect and envy, with an attitude to have.  It is a very religious attitude and angle.