Earliest Scriptural Premise: Mercilessness, Not Sin

The declarations featured in this blog are derived from Christian traditions, but such traditions stripped to the core premises of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth, the presentation of his statements and actions in the standard four gospels, and the necessity of crediting his spiritual contentions if those gospels are to be taken as substantive.

In short, the Jesus of the canonical gospels existed, and he existed in the fullness of the divine.

In regard to “Earliest Scriptural Premise”, it is the premise of this blog that the thrust of Jesus’ ministry is aimed not at the problem of sin—so often taken as the root of humanity’s alienation from God—but at the problem of mercilessness. The earliest humans were not sinless, yet they were in communion with God. That communion was broken when Eve and Adam first began to exercise judgment—invariably imperfect judgment—against human beings. Eve and Adam, in other words, had eaten of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The story of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis—the first book of the Bible—is logically the presumptive Scriptural foundation of Jesus’ exhortation “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” (Matthew 7:1, KJV)