No, the story of the Good Samaritan is not meant to bless taking the gospel into the way of the Gentiles

 

 

 

 

 

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

-- Mark 3:35 

Jesus thought the Torah was good for eternal life, but Christianity Today doesn't want to mention it

 

What Do Christians Do with the Law of Moses?

Brad East, Christianity Today:

... if what you want is the eternal life manifested in the resurrection of Jesus, then fix your eyes on him. Whatever else the Torah is good for, it can’t give you that. What then is the Torah good for? ...

 

 

What did Jesus do with the Law of Moses?

 

And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.  

 

-- Luke 10:25ff.   

The welfare of us all

 The welfare of us all

Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.

 

-- William Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 2, Act 3, Scene 1  

All's not fair in love and war

 Why should you, whose mother-wits

Are furnish'd with all perquisites,

B' allow'd to put all tricks upon

Our cully sex, and we use none?

 

-- Samuel Butler, Hudibras 

The hero is not without honor save in his own house

 Three duels he fought, thrice ventur'd his life;

Went home, and was cudgell'd again by his wife.

 

-- Jonathan Swift 

When you surround yourself with toadies and sycophants

 Some valuing those of their own side, or mind,

Still make themselves the measure of mankind:

Fondly we think we honour merit then,

When we but praise ourselves in other men.

 

-- Alexander Pope 

The Trump type has been known for centuries

  It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

 -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Trump Doesn't Care If He Wrecks Global Economy

Alex Shephard, The New Republic

 

Time sanctifies everything, including monarchy

 

 Kings titles commonly begin by force,

Which time wears off and mellows into right.

 

-- John Dryden 

There is safety in solitude

School of the Vestals, a painting by Hector Leroux, 1880

 How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

 

-- Alexander Pope