http://www.feministsdontbakebread.com/2007/03/24/17/ Neither do they knit. Apparently. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:42:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.feministsdontbakebread.com/2007/03/24/17/#comment-632 Donna Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:39:31 +0000 http://www.feministsdontbakebread.com/2007/03/24/17/#comment-632 I'm like you. I took alot of lessons from the Bible but if I had to look the exact words up it would take some doing. Matthew is definitely my favorite book, by the way, and I appreciate that you are quoting from it, and see as I do, that the lessons derived from it can be applied in many different ways in many different situations. The way I interpret that passage is that you shouldn't do good works in the hopes of getting praise from other people. Definitely not that you should never let anyone know that you do good works, but to look into your motives for doing so. Because other parts of the Bible talk about being an example for others. How can you be an example if no one knows that you do good works? It would appear hypocritical if you were pushing for others to do things that you do not do yourself (or that they can not see that you do). I’m like you. I took alot of lessons from the Bible but if I had to look the exact words up it would take some doing. Matthew is definitely my favorite book, by the way, and I appreciate that you are quoting from it, and see as I do, that the lessons derived from it can be applied in many different ways in many different situations. The way I interpret that passage is that you shouldn’t do good works in the hopes of getting praise from other people. Definitely not that you should never let anyone know that you do good works, but to look into your motives for doing so. Because other parts of the Bible talk about being an example for others. How can you be an example if no one knows that you do good works? It would appear hypocritical if you were pushing for others to do things that you do not do yourself (or that they can not see that you do).

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