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Matt.5:29 If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell} 5:30 If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off, and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.{or, Hell}

Once again Law Christian's find themselves at wits end in trying to legally explain away Christ words here, if as they teach, you must take literally what Christ spoke as truth? Did any of the apostles pluck out their eye, or cut of their right hand, and did they practice this among those that walked in tender affection for each member of the body of Christ?

Is Jesus teaching that a man should hate his body parts or feed and cherish his body members as he does the congregation, all fair questions, are they not?

No Jesus is not saying actually pluck out your eye, why not? Because in context of Matthew Chapter Five, he is showing us the absolute impossibility of us keeping the Law perfectly of God, the same law he was too fulfill for those putting faith in his righteous life. In other words, Christ poses an impossible thought to the minds of his listeners, which should have made them say; “how can anyone be saved, and found worthy before God, if I myself must pluck out my own eye?”

Powerful question, not someone else do the dirty job of cutting off your hand or plucking out your eye, no! One must do it too themselves if they believe that is what's required to be faithful to God, because none can stop sinning in this manner? That is the point the plucking out of the eye, or cutting off the of the hand does not change ones heart, they still can think of adultery, can they not, or lust for money with one heart?

Moreover, as some religious groups teach, you must use strong measure against your sinful thoughts that is what Christ meant here, but that is lie, one would have to kill themselves if they did not want to sin, for all men fail short of the glory of God and are sinners no matter how harshly they treat their bodies.

There is only one way to stop sinning for a Christian's, and how is that? By accepting the unmerited gift of Christ Jesus life as free gift of God's love.

Which, means in real terms, accepting Christ Jesus perfect sinless life as a pass-over lamb for our unrighteous sinful life. In other words, Christ Jesus life buying our life back so we can be declared righteous by God, as sinless. Hence, made a part of Christ Jesus life, which imputes his righteousness too us, making us dead to sin, that is, our old life, not plucking out the eye in our sinful body that still needs forgiveness each day for sin against YHWH.

Here we find that law Christian's who earn merit by punishing themselves harshly and others, has no righteousness before God, they must die, to pay the penalty for their sins, or accept Christ Jesus death, and life as paying the price for them. Thus, cutting off a hand does not make them anymore righteous, not unless it is self-righteous, why? Simply, put God only accepts Christ Jesus righteousness as paying off the Law, and its condemnation of us, we can never be justified in our righteous acts before God, we can only be justified by Christ Jesus righteous acts as part of his body members.

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Christ's sayings about the Law seem to be at variance with the rest of Christian Scripture, which simply declares that we are not under Law.

However, Jesus is merely amplifying the seriousness of the Law, and the impossibility for an honest person to actually keep it,

and the ultimate demand that it makes on His blood as the One responsible for letting people be born in sin, by not protecting them from the consequences of the transgression by Adam.

The Law was not to pass away by any means, UNTIL even the smallest demands of it were satisfied by nothing less than the death of Jesus,

or until all things were accomplished by Him at His saying so on the martyr stake, to wit: "It has been accomplished!"

While the Law is absolutely righteous and just by itself, placing inherently imperfect people under its judgment without their consent, is the worst travesty of all the Law stands for, and calls for nothing less than the death of the Law Giver Himself, as demanded by His very own Law.

Hence, the only way we can honestly uphold and keep the Law is by proclaiming the death of the Lord, until He arrives!