When folks try to use the beatitudes as prescriptive, as though God were bribing us to do good and threatening those who do evil, I've come to the conclusion that the same persons who have the nature that gets the blessing, are also those whose nature causes them to put faith in God and in His Messiah. It's kind of like how the good soil is the soil that will receive the seed and bear fruit. They are descriptive statements. We can see them as warnings and rewards, perhaps, to soften our hearts and get us thinking, which motivates people towards repentance and faith. But mainly Jesus is saying that there are people who will be in the category of God's children, who imitate His nature, and that this is the best for them and for humanity, and then there are those who are opposed to God and His children, who defy God, and will have the worst life. I also view the beatitudes and other parts of the Sermon on the Mount as a sort of foil to the belief that good Jews are the blessed ones, while the Gentiles are the cursed ones. Jesus is saying, if we take this approach, that what makes people blessed or cursed is not about their ancestry or the Mosaic Law; rather, the blessed are both Jews and Gentiles that have the blessed nature of God's children, who imitate His character and share His "DNA" (the Holy Spirit new birth), while the woes are for those, whether Jewish or Gentile, who do not share in God's nature and character.
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Check out Dallas Willard's explanation of the Beatitudes
@@JonClark-dy7dh I’ll definitely look into that. I love Willard. Do you happen to know which book?
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Divine Conspiracy
When folks try to use the beatitudes as prescriptive, as though God were bribing us to do good and threatening those who do evil, I've come to the conclusion that the same persons who have the nature that gets the blessing, are also those whose nature causes them to put faith in God and in His Messiah. It's kind of like how the good soil is the soil that will receive the seed and bear fruit. They are descriptive statements. We can see them as warnings and rewards, perhaps, to soften our hearts and get us thinking, which motivates people towards repentance and faith. But mainly Jesus is saying that there are people who will be in the category of God's children, who imitate His nature, and that this is the best for them and for humanity, and then there are those who are opposed to God and His children, who defy God, and will have the worst life. I also view the beatitudes and other parts of the Sermon on the Mount as a sort of foil to the belief that good Jews are the blessed ones, while the Gentiles are the cursed ones. Jesus is saying, if we take this approach, that what makes people blessed or cursed is not about their ancestry or the Mosaic Law; rather, the blessed are both Jews and Gentiles that have the blessed nature of God's children, who imitate His character and share His "DNA" (the Holy Spirit new birth), while the woes are for those, whether Jewish or Gentile, who do not share in God's nature and character.