If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.
Founder of Christianity
Matthew 5:29, teaching on radical self-denial to avoid sin.
c. 27-30 CE
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"But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me."
Shocking"I did not come to bring peace, but a sword."
Strange & Unusual"For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God."
Philosophical"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock."
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Shocking