In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus covers many topics concerning the life to lead
and salvation. In Matthew 5-7, he lays out what will later become the basics of
Christianity. Jesus' teachings are very metaphorical and hard to find true
meaning. I may be taking some of this too literally but, I found it very hard to
follow. This is supposedly Jesus talking, yet he says one thing and then totally
shoots it down in the next part. For the most part, I see that it is about
obeying God and living a morally good life. What this passage tells me about
Christianity is that it is no more than faith. "I tell you, then, that you will
be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the
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Stained glass at St John the Baptist's Anglican Ch...
Jesus is considered by scholars such as Weber to b...teachers of the Law and the Pharisees in doing what God requires"(Matthew 5.
20).
Much of Matthew 5 seems to be about the golden rule. Jesus conveys that what you
door don't do, God will or will not do to you. Jesus speaks of rewards very
often and that seems to be the underlying meaning of his sermon. He repeats that
if you do this or that then you will or will not be rewarded by God. Throughout
the sermon, Jesus seems to focus on the rewards as opposed to the acts of
goodness, and this seems to be what God doesn't want. But Jesus later speaks of
doing good deeds in private so not to be doing it for the reward you get, but
out of the goodness of your heart.
What I have learned in this sermon, humans are held very high. "You are like
light for the whole world." In Genesis, it is said that everything was created...