{"id":3387,"date":"2023-03-17T03:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3387"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:11","slug":"you-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3387","title":{"rendered":"YOU FOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">&#8220;But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, \u2018Raca,\u2019 is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, \u2018You fool!\u2019 will be in danger of the fire of hell.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Such is the warning from Jesus in Matthew 5:22, early in His Sermon on the Mount.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Before now, I had never noticed something interesting about Jesus&#8217; condemnation of those who would call their fellow man a &#8220;fool&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: large\">Take a look at Jesus&#8217; rebuke of the Pharisees in Matthew 23:17.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"background-color: white;color: #001320;text-align: justify\">That&#8217;s where Jesus rants at the Pharisees, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #001320\">You blind <i><b>fools<\/b><\/i>! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?&#8221; This is the exact word from 5:22.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #001320\">Either Jesus is a hypocrite &#8212; or it is clear that it is not the word choice which is the issue, it is the heart behind it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #001320\">Some people really are fools, but only the God who sees into the heart is qualified to make that call.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, \u2018Raca,\u2019 is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, \u2018You fool!\u2019 will be in danger of the fire of hell.&#8221; Such is the warning from Jesus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3387\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}