Relevancy of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.

[Benson]

Matthew Chs. 5-7 and Luke Ch. 6 give Jesus' Sermons on the Mount and the Plain. Therein He addressed the Jews about their obligations unto true obedience if the Mosaic Law beyond mere compliance to the letter of the Law. He did so in contradistinction to the corrupt Phariseeism.

This thread is presented to deal with the question for Gentiles, "Are Christ's Sermons on the Mount and Plain given to the Jews meant to be understood by Gentiles as commands to be followed, or as mere background perspectively? Were they instructive, or informative?"

I submit Jesus' Sermons there were exclusive for the Jews, because it is not possible for any Christian today to literally and consistently follow any of what Jesus therein specified should be done. No person today can show, or even explain, compliance to Jesus' teachings in Matthew 6-7 and Luke 6.

If you disagree, tell us how you personally obey His Sermons.

[Avoice]

[Replying to Benson in post #1]

Why should a Jew obey another Jew? Jesus is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

[William]

[Replying to Benson in post #1]

Why should a Jew obey another Jew? Jesus is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

It appears that the personality which Christianity modeled its mythology upon, gave most of his knowledge to small gathering of personalities interested in his particular take on reality and didn't teach the same information publicly which he taught privately. What information he did teach publicly, he taught in a different way than how he taught privately.
It is hard to say whether the Jesus of the Christian Bible even regarded his idea of The Creator as being the same entity as the Jewish idea of The Creator, as he is never recorded to have actually said so or name The Creator. He simply referred to The Creator as his "father".
Perhaps he saw similarities in the Jewish religions ideas of G_D as well as contradictions.

One thing seems certain enough. Christianity became the same type of traditional culture as that of the Jewish organized religions with the ritualistic and other regulations which organized religions cannot seem to help but apply over the lives of the adherents. Every religion begins its life as a cult. Some cults die out, some go underground and some become religions and one or two become super-religions.

If anything, Jesus was a member of one of the many small sects which existed outside of the direct authority of traditional Jewish Religions and had different ideas as to the nature of The Creator.