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Be Ye Therefore Civil:  Paradoxes in Jesus’ Teachings

by A. Glenn Foster

Yet only fools see themselves as perfect. Indeed, a surefire road to neurosis for ourselves and everyone around us is an ethic of demanding perfectionism. Surely Jesus saw this as clearly as we lesser beings do. Then why did he insist we be as perfect as God himself?

A. Glenn Foster, M.A. in Hebrew Studies from the University of Utah and lifelong student of the New Testament in several languages, believes some of Jesus’s teachings got muddied in translation. He thinks Jesus actually called us to be civil — or something like it, since there is neither Hebrew word nor concept for “perfect” and no true English equivalent for what Glenn translates as “civil”. Glenn explains this problem in an essay that offers such a perfectly simple understanding of Jesus’s saying as to thrill and soothe the soul.

Be ye therefore perfect, Jesus told his followers.

This book is in the writing stage. It is envisioned as a series of essays, each exploring a paradox in Jesus’s teachings.

 

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