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If You Are Going to Quote Scripture
So, I am reading Unstuffed, and I am not happy about it. There is a bunch of garbage in here about how stuff is paid for with money that you get from hard work. This is not a good description of reality, but, fine.
However, in a discussion of saying no, and how it is important to do, and etc., she says this. “In the end, a simple, direct no is usually the most effective. It eliminates the expectation of any other possible outcome and quickly frees up both the person asking and the person answering. It allows you to check off the item on your mental list instead of wasting additional thought on it. Even the Bible advocates a direct approach. Jesus, in Mathew 5:37, says, “All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’, or ‘No”; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”
OK, then, we are going to be doing scripture now.
This is fucking from the Sermon on the Mount and there is context and the context is all quite clearly about oaths. Really. He is running down the various commandments, and spends 4 verses on oaths. It is said, do not swear falsely. Well, do not swear at all! Not by this, not by that, not by the other thing, just yes or no and anything else is bad.
This is NOT about whether you are being weaselly on agreeing to or not agreeing to doing something that someone asks of you. It is about swearing an oath, and how followers of Jesus should — or, specifically should not — swear. Your word is supposed to be good, if you are a follower of Jesus, whether you swore an oath or not (actually, now that I think about this, boy is this politically relevant right now). You do not need a rule about not perjuring yourself, if you always tell the truth. And when you have a look at how far people have been willing to throw down over this scripture, misinterpreting it really seems pretty bad! ETA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath#Christian_tradition Altho would you really want to be in the company of Franklin Pierce for anything, ever, under any circumstances!
Look, I do not like the quoting of scripture in general. Please. Leave it be. If you cannot say this in a more general purpose way, I wonder why you wrote it at all. But if you are going to quote scripture, at the very least, try not to get a major chunk of the Sermon on the Mount wrong. It will stick in my craw, and I will complain. And I bet other people are going to be really put off by it, too.
However, in a discussion of saying no, and how it is important to do, and etc., she says this. “In the end, a simple, direct no is usually the most effective. It eliminates the expectation of any other possible outcome and quickly frees up both the person asking and the person answering. It allows you to check off the item on your mental list instead of wasting additional thought on it. Even the Bible advocates a direct approach. Jesus, in Mathew 5:37, says, “All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’, or ‘No”; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”
OK, then, we are going to be doing scripture now.
This is fucking from the Sermon on the Mount and there is context and the context is all quite clearly about oaths. Really. He is running down the various commandments, and spends 4 verses on oaths. It is said, do not swear falsely. Well, do not swear at all! Not by this, not by that, not by the other thing, just yes or no and anything else is bad.
This is NOT about whether you are being weaselly on agreeing to or not agreeing to doing something that someone asks of you. It is about swearing an oath, and how followers of Jesus should — or, specifically should not — swear. Your word is supposed to be good, if you are a follower of Jesus, whether you swore an oath or not (actually, now that I think about this, boy is this politically relevant right now). You do not need a rule about not perjuring yourself, if you always tell the truth. And when you have a look at how far people have been willing to throw down over this scripture, misinterpreting it really seems pretty bad! ETA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath#Christian_tradition Altho would you really want to be in the company of Franklin Pierce for anything, ever, under any circumstances!
Look, I do not like the quoting of scripture in general. Please. Leave it be. If you cannot say this in a more general purpose way, I wonder why you wrote it at all. But if you are going to quote scripture, at the very least, try not to get a major chunk of the Sermon on the Mount wrong. It will stick in my craw, and I will complain. And I bet other people are going to be really put off by it, too.