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Also, when Jesus states, "Honor your father and your mother" (Luke 18/20),
and "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (Mark 12/31), we find that Luke
14/26 accuses Jesus contradicts himself: "If any man come to me, and hate not his
father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and
his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." He also accuses him of preventing one
of his disciples from burying his dead father when he asked him if he could do so: "Follow
me; and let the dead bury their dead." (Matthew 8/22) Even the well-known biblical
text which calls to patience and forbearance, namely, "but whosoever shall smite you
on your right cheek, turn to him the other also" (Matthew 5/39) has been
contradicted by the writers of the Gospels! In John 18/22-23, for instance, we read, "And
when he had thus spoken, one of the officers who stood by struck Jesus with
the palm of his hand, saying, 'Answer you the high priest so?' Jesus answered
him, 'If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil: but if well, why strike
me?'"
Not only do they describe Jesus as being tyrannical and rough, as in Matthew 21/12, "And
Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought
in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats
of them that sold doves", they go as far as accusing him of saying horrible statements,
such as "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword" (Matthew 10/34), and "I am come to send fire on the earth;
and would that it were already kindled?" (Luke 12/49)
They accuse him of killing children: "And I will kill her children with
death" (revelation 2/23), and claim that he was hard-hearted, as he invoked a curse on
a fig tree that had no fruits on it when he was rather hungry: "And when he saw a fig
tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and
said unto it, Let no fruit grow on you again forever. And presently the fig tree
withered away." (Matthew 21/19) They also claim that he intentionally deceived other
than his disciples by using parables so that they would not understand anything and thus
not repent. In Mark 4/11-12, for instance, we read, "And he said unto them, Unto
you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that
are outside, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see,
and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any
time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."