At March 7, 2026, 1:55 p.m. Real_The_Founder said: What Christ is teaching here is that whatever is enticing you to sin, whatever is making you sin against God, you must cut it off from your life. Christ usually used hyperbole to make his point be made clear, and here you must cut off anything that causes you to sin in your life, even if it costs an arm and a leg, figuratively of course. If we actually take it for literal, there would be a lot of people half-blind and limping. Self-mutilation was actually condemned at the First Ecumenical Council, at Nicaea in the year 325, where all the top Christian Bishops met to decide what is the real and orthodox doctrine of Christianity. So harming yourself in this literal way would be contradicting Christ's teaching actually, for he doesn't want you to actually hurt yourself, but wants to heal you of sin, which is why he is saying here in a poetic form to radically and drastically cut off and destroy every cause of sin in your life. For sin is indeed the silent killer.

At March 8, 2026, 9:32 a.m. Bleed_For_Love said: Thank you. This makes sense now.