Did Jesus Prove He Wasn’t Sinless When He Overturned the Tables?
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Stand to Reason
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the last hashtag STR Ask podcast of the year. |
| 0:17.7 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 0:18.4 | We made it all the way to the end, Greg. |
| 0:20.0 | We did. |
| 0:20.8 | Congratulations, Amy. |
| 0:22.1 | All right. We're going to start with a question from Abby. Okay. Witnessing about Jesus being |
| 0:27.8 | sinless. Response from school principal was that Jesus lacked self-control, got angry, and chucked a |
| 0:33.8 | violent temper tantrum when he overthrew the tables in Matthew 21, 12, and 13. |
| 0:38.8 | I tried to explain he had a right to act, but they just insisted throwing tables rules out sinlessness. |
| 0:46.7 | What kind of, what teacher is that? |
| 0:49.8 | She says that was the response from the school principal. |
| 0:53.6 | Oh, public school. |
| 0:54.7 | I would assume. |
| 0:55.8 | It sounds like that to me. |
| 0:57.0 | Well, just advanced notice, a person like that's not going to be persuaded by any argument, okay, because they don't have a charitable attitude to begin with. |
| 1:07.7 | So, shooting a person in the head with a bullet, is that wrong or not? |
| 1:15.1 | I can't answer that, great. |
| 1:16.7 | Well, the reason you can't answer is because you don't have context. Right. Okay. Probably the immediate |
| 1:21.8 | response would be, of course, that's bad. Well, wait a minute. What if you are shooting somebody |
| 1:25.5 | who's killing a bunch of other people with their own weapon in a school yard, for example, and we've had plenty of instances like that, and you happen to be armed and you sit that person ahead, and that's it. That's the end of it. By the way, that happened in a church, what, two years ago, you know, a guy came in and wasted a couple of people, and then the, finally, one of the |
| 1:45.7 | security guards, armed, a former police officer, took one, finally got a clear shot, took |
| 1:51.1 | him out by shooting him in the head. So, in some circumstances, shooting somebody in the head is not |
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