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Matt.18:8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire. 18:9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna{or, Hell} of fire.

Christ very powerful words here, which no Christian's practices? However, some oppressive religious groups have throughout the history of Christianity have happily taken another person hand or eye, but not so much their own, which is Christ application of his words here, not plucking your neighbors eye, but your own eye or hand!

Matt.7:3 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye? 7:4 Or how will you tell your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye;' and behold, the beam is in your own eye?

Now that changes the hate of judgment in our own heart for unrighteous acts does it not? We can be very kind to our own flesh, but another person breaking God's law, will, not so much! Here is the extractor we all have in removing sin from someone else flesh, but God's word factually tells us we can't remove sin from ourselves. Our fleshly house is God's temple, while another person not our family, or friends is an outhouse! This is man judgment under sin not a noble thing if we are honest, and we love truth?

1 Peter 3:21 This is a symbol of baptism, which now saves you--not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

So if God's words is correct, and we cannot put away the filth of our own flesh, and Christ was correct in saying that even a thought of lust towards the opposite sex is adultery, is Christ than teaching nipping sin in bud before it happens making oneself righteous without sin, that is, plucking out the eye, cutting off the hand? No! Don't be foolish he is teaching the simple truth that none of us cannot not be a sinners no matter how tough we are on ourselves or on others by God's law.

Romans 3:10 As it is written, "There is no one righteous; no, not one.

None of us are going to cut off a hand, or pluck out an eye; so stop lying too yourselves and others that you have put away the filth of your own flesh by meeting rules and/or commandments of God, and accept the truth in Christ. By Faith we stand before God, by the redeeming blood of Christ Jesus. No Christian's condones sinning, if they have the love of God indwelling them, no Christian's promotes unrighteous acts if they are indwelt with Christ Jesus righteousness, nor do we declare ourselves righteous by some good works, we are instead declared righteous by Christ good works given us as God's gift making us sinless in Christ.

Romans 3:20 Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

Romans 7:18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don't find it doing that which is good.

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