"Anyone who says to his brother, 'Raca,' is answerable to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, 'You fool!' will be in danger of the fire of hell."
I think we can all relate to this. In another passage is says:
"Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him."
There are some people in my immediate life who I dislike. There were times where this dislike of someone would evolve into a bigger and badder dislike - hate. The sad thing is that these times of dislike and immense dislike were not from my childhood, but rather a time not too long ago. Reading these two passages and those like it reminds me of how much higher I need to grow. Sometimes its so easy to hate someone. Do you know what I mean? I think you probably do. Its sad that we are prone to hate so easily. But sometimes I think, well I don't dislike the individual THAT much, or everyone has someone they dislike. But when you look into the passage the words Raca and Fool are used to describe a person of low intelligence and character, defined respectively. These words are not very strong words, there were worse words than those in Hebrew. So, something as trivial as the word fool, could it be something so displeasing to God that Jesus would tell those who commit this sin to watch out for hell? We must heed this passage and go to those who we need to forgive... I got a lot of cleaning to do.
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