Was Jesus truly free of sin? Didn’t the deadly sin of anger rear its head when he withered a fig tree?
I’m just wondering what was with that act.
Would God really do that?
Wrath isn’t a sin? Thinking of sinning is a sin itself. Did Jesus not say in his Sermon on the Mount, look upon a woman with lust in your heart and cut your eyes out to prevent such thoughts again?
God is a troll.
God is a troll.
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Actually, the Bible doesn’t say anger is a sin. It says that if a man is angry without a cause or if he handles his anger in an inappropriate way, it is a sin.
Wrath is not the same thing as anger in the Bible.
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Anger not a sin.
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Hasn’t this gone far enough??
God might not be real for you, but the tears of the children are.
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The fig tree with green leaves and no fruits refers to Christians by name only. they do not have the Spirit of God then there is no fruit yet they have the name and the appeariance. The end of such a person is to be cast out and hell at last. The Lord gave a demonstration of what is going to happen in the future.
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Jesus was justifiably angry. The tree gave false evidence of bearing fruit.
However, anger is not a sin.
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being angry is not a sin, it’s how you act upon the anger that determines sin or not. Jesus was making a point. if the tree doesn’t produce good fruit, then there is no use for it. same can be applied to people.
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"be angry and sin not"
First it’s not a sin to be angry. Be angry and sin not Ephesians 4:26
Second, Christ knew it was too early for figs. However when a fig tree gets its leaves it also gets little knobs that indicate the figs that will ripen later. These ‘knobs’ are actually eaten by the peasants if they are hungry enough. There were obviously no knobs for Christ to eat so He knew that tree would not be producing any figs. He cursed it to show the greater lesson that we must produce fruit or we will be cursed.
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there is such thing as righteous anger. just a Jesus was angry with those that were marketing in the temple. he turned tables and forced the merchants out. he was angry because of his love for God, and how Gods own people disrespected God’s house (the temple). the same can be said with the fig tree, only this was a parable. those that do not produce the fruit of the spirit.such as love, kindness,etc. they will perish. almost everything that Jesus did in his teaching ministry was a parable. this is so that those with ears can hear, and those with eyes can see. but also, so that those that do not want to understand will turn away.
@ JR. why are you making false claims. almost all mainstream scholars agree that Jesus existed. not a Jesus but the Jesus. it is only those that are of the minority that do not believe that Jesus existed. this is 100 year old scholarship you are talking about. today we know a lot more.they just differ on what he did. all mainstream N.T scholars agree with the following facts about Jesus.
1.Jesus was crucified by Roman consul Pontius Pilate and his burial by Joseph of arimatheia
2.the discovery of the empty tomb by his women followers
3.postmortem experiences by his followers
4. and the origins of the disciples faith even when they had ever predisposition to believe otherwise (the Jew believed that the Resurrection happened at the end of the world)
scholars just differ on the explanation of these facts. most scholars just say that there must be a natural explanation. but this is simply because they presuppose naturalism.
agnostic burt Erhman, author of best seller "misquoting Jesus" defends the existence of Jesus, to a very ignorant host: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRx0N4GF0AY
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Ephesians 4:26 says ""In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry". Anger is an emotion, and emotions aren’t sin. Now if the fig tree had been a puppy or something, perhaps withering it would have been inconsistent with Jesus’ nature, but it wasn’t…just a tree.
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Any first year student in rel. studies could make a solid case Jesus never even existed….at least, not the one in the Gospels.
No historian of the era even mentions him. He himself wrote nothing… he was illiterate. And no one who knew him, wrote any gospel….those men were all dead. The gospels were all written decades after his supposed death.
There is no warrant, nor paper ordering his death……..this at a time of great Roman record keeping.
There is not one line in the bible such as,
"When Jesus told ME……"
or
"When Jesus and I were walking in………."
Nothing.
It’s endless what isn’t there…………
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One day in late March in the year 33 C.E., Jesus Christ saw a fig tree as he and his disciples were walking from Bethany to Jerusalem. The tree was in full leaf, but closer inspection revealed that it had no fruit whatsoever. Jesus therefore said to it: “Let no one eat fruit from you anymore forever.”—Mark 11:12-14.
Why did Jesus curse that tree since, as Mark explains, “it was not the season of figs”? (Mark 11:13) Well, when a fig tree bears leaves, normally it also produces early figs. It was unusual for a fig tree to have leaves at that time of year. But since it had leaves, Jesus rightly expected to find figs on it. The fact that the tree had borne only leaves meant that it would be unproductive. Its appearance was deceptive. Since fruit trees were taxed, an unfruitful tree was an economic burden and needed to be cut down.
Jesus used that unfruitful fig tree to illustrate a vital lesson regarding faith. The following day, his disciples were surprised to see that the tree had already withered. Jesus explained: “Have faith in God. . . . All the things you pray and ask for have faith that you have practically received, and you will have them.” (Mark 11:22-24) In addition to illustrating the need to pray in faith, the withered fig tree graphically showed what would happen to a nation lacking faith.
Some months earlier Jesus had compared the Jewish nation to a fig tree that had been unfruitful for three years and would be cut down if it remained unproductive. (Luke 13:6-9) By cursing the fig tree just four days before his death, Jesus showed how the Jewish nation had not produced fruits befitting repentance and thus was in line for destruction. Though that nation—like the fig tree—superficially appeared healthy, a closer look revealed a lack of faith that culminated in the rejection of the Messiah.—Luke 3:8, 9.
In his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus warned against “false prophets” and said: “By their fruits you will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. Really, then, by their fruits you will recognize those men.” (Matthew 7:15-20) These words of Jesus and the account of the cursed fig tree clearly show that we need to be on guard spiritually, for religious appearances can also be deceptive.
Man’s expression of anger may be proper if it is based on principle. One may rightly express righteous indignation. We are commanded to “abhor what is wicked.” (Ro 12:9) The Bible provides numerous examples of righteous indignation.—Ex 11:8; 32:19; Nu 16:12-15; 1Sa 20:34; Ne 5:6; Es 7:7; see also 2Sa 12:1-6.
Also, in other texts, opponents of Jehovah are depicted as being forced to drink of God’s righteous indignation, likened to “wine that is foaming,” “the wine of rage,” “the wine of the anger of God.” (Ps 75:8; Jer 25:15; Re 14:10; 16:19)
P.S. (Matthew 16:15-17) Jesus said to them: “YOU, though, who do YOU say I am?” In answer Simon Peter said: “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” In response Jesus said to him: “Happy you are, Simon son of Jonah, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to you, but my Father who is in the heavens did.
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