The podcast I stumbled on yesterday with a pastor, a Muslim scholar and a Rabbi is still bothering me. The ‘pastor’ stated that God’s word equated disability with sin.
Jesus was very specific that there is something much worse than having a disability. In fact, that something is so much worse, we should intentionally DISABLE OURSELVES rather than succumb to it:
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’” Mark 9:42-48
That doesn’t read like Jesus was equating sin with disability. Jesus is telling us to do anything to keep from sinning, because the result of sin is eternal condemnation.
Unfortunately, we all sin. Cut off hands and feet, rip out eyes – we will still sin. But there is a great answer to our problem! Jesus!
If you want to know this Jesus, Pastor John explains the gospel in this short video from a few years ago:
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Did Jesus really say that about disability and sin?
May 7, 2010 by John Knight
The podcast I stumbled on yesterday with a pastor, a Muslim scholar and a Rabbi is still bothering me. The ‘pastor’ stated that God’s word equated disability with sin.
Jesus was very specific that there is something much worse than having a disability. In fact, that something is so much worse, we should intentionally DISABLE OURSELVES rather than succumb to it:
“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into hell, ‘where their worm does not die and the fire is not quenched.’” Mark 9:42-48
That doesn’t read like Jesus was equating sin with disability. Jesus is telling us to do anything to keep from sinning, because the result of sin is eternal condemnation.
Unfortunately, we all sin. Cut off hands and feet, rip out eyes – we will still sin. But there is a great answer to our problem! Jesus!
If you want to know this Jesus, Pastor John explains the gospel in this short video from a few years ago:
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