Read The Sermon On The Mount (matthew 5-7) & Comment On What It Tells You About Christianity

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In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus covers many topics concerning the life to lead and salvation. In Matthew 5-7, he lays out what will later become the basics of Christianity. Jesus' teachings are very metaphorical and hard to find true meaning. I may be taking some of this too literally but, I found it very hard to follow. This is supposedly Jesus talking, yet he says one thing and then totally shoots it down in the next part. For the most part, I see that it is about obeying God and living a morally good life. What this passage tells me about Christianity is that it is no more than faith. "I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the King ...view middle of the document...

Throughout the sermon, Jesus seems to focus on the rewards as opposed to the acts of goodness, and this seems to be what God doesn't want. But Jesus later speaks of doing good deeds in private so not to be doing it for the reward you get, but out of the goodness of your heart. It is beyond me how he could say that after reading up to that point.From what I have gathered in this sermon, humans are held very high. "You are like light for the whole world." In Genesis, it is said that everything was created for humans alone and that we were created in God's likeness. The earth seems to be held very low. It seems to say that the Earth is ours to do what we please with it, and only heaven really matters."When you pray, do not use a lot of meaningless words, as the pagans do, who think God will hear them because their prayers are long. Do not be like them."(Matthew5. 7-8) It confused me to see that Jesus said this. Two passages before this one, Jesus speaks of loving your fellow man, even your enemies. It seemed very childish that he said such things.What I have gathered about Christianity from this sermon is as long as you have faith in God then you need not worry about anything else. God will take care of you if you have faith in him. Do not be concerned with material things, money, or anything of this planet, just be concerned with God. "You cannot serve both God and money."(Matthew6. 24) Hold your religion inside you and do not worry about others, only God is concerned with your spirituality and that is all that matters.

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