An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves.
One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.
The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
Jesus overturned tables and used physical violence against the greedy Jews.
That said, Jesus still felt ANGRY, likely mostly because the the sin and perhaps a little anger was directed towards the sinners as Jesus beat the greedy Jews with a whip as they ran for their lives.
But my point still stands. Anger is not inherently evil. Jesus felt anger and acted on His anger and his actions were good, not evil or Satanic. This is the single best example I can thing of and we both know that you can't rebut it even if Jesus did feel some anger at the sinners or not.
Granted, but the moneylenders (not all Jews, as you seem to insinuate twice,) were essentially 'setting up shop' where they did not belong. Nehemiah 5 or 6 describes a similar incident with Sanballat and Tobiah, who tried to do the same thing, essentially. Nehemiah kicked them out as well as the Gentile merchants who tried to come to the gate to make a sale on the Sabbath.
I somewhat agree with your baseless interpretation of scripture, however nitpicking at my metaphor doesn't rebut anything about my argument. We may as well be arguing about the best flavor of ice-cream.
What? I back this up with two scriptures and you define it as baseless?!?! You didn't bother to find a cross-reference or any other reference.
I honestly agree with the idea that there are things we should hate, as well. (And said so!) But when we carry that hatred from things to people, we cross a line that should not be crossed. You never know whom God will call to serve Him. All of the twelve were Jews, and Paul (aka Saul of Tarsus) was actually a Pharisee who disagreed so vehemently with the Apostles that he tried to kill all who had an alliance to them ---Until Jesus showed up and turned his whole life around 180 degrees.