{"id":639,"date":"2011-09-05T07:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?p=639"},"modified":"2011-09-05T07:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T11:29:36","slug":"do-we-literally-cut-off-our-right-hand","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/?page_id=639","title":{"rendered":"Do we literally cut off our right hand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Question:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Mt. 5:30 say that we are to cut off our right hand if it offends us.\u00a0 Are we really supposed to cut off our hand?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This verse does not literally mean to amputate your hand.\u00a0 There are other scriptures that make mention of cutting off body parts; Mt. 18:8-9, \u201c\u2026..hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off\u2026&#8230; if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee\u2026..\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 If we took these statements literally, some of us would inevitably be without any body parts at all.\u00a0 We are all members of the Body of Christ; 1 Cor.12:27, \u201c\u2026..ye are the body of Christ\u2026..\u201d\u00a0 Christ is the head of the body; Col. 1:18, \u201c\u2026..he is the head of the body, the church\u2026..\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">All of the members represent a body part, such as a hand, a foot, an eye, and etc.\u00a0 If you see a member doing something that entices you to do wrong, you are to separate (cut him off) yourself from that person; 2 Th. 3:6, \u201c\u2026..that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received\u2026.<\/span><\/span><em>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/em><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">We are to adjust our life styles in such a way that we avoid any and all persons, places and things that causes us to stumble.\u00a0 When you separate yourself from the presence of evil, you are in fact, cutting off that part of the body that offends you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Mt. 5:30 say that we are to cut off our right hand if it offends us.\u00a0 Are we really supposed to cut off our hand? \u00a0 Answer:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This verse does not literally mean to amputate your hand.\u00a0 There are other scriptures that make mention of cutting off body parts; Mt. 18:8-9, \u201c\u2026..hand or thy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-639","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/639\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epistleofchrist.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}