Reply #30: Yes, Jesus did say that, [View All]

[tanyev]

but you have to look at it in context.

Matt. 5:17 "Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil them." He continues on in verse 20, "For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

This from the same guy who in Matt. 23:13 blasts the scribes and the Pharisees with, "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in."

I think the point of Matt. 5:17 and following is that no one is perfect enough to earn their way into heaven. That's why his death on the cross was necessary to atone for sin.

And it's my opinion that the fundie Christians are a modern day version of the hypocritical scribes and Pharisees.