[Elsie]

or selling all they have and giving to the poor.

This was a specific reply to a specific individual.

I can see nowhere that it is to be applied across the board.

[js1138]

This was a specific reply to a specific individual. I can see nowhere that it is to be applied across the board.

As I suspected. Inconvenient, but very explicit statements are just metaphors. Can you point to anything in the life or teaching of Jesus that suggests he was more impressed with public bloviations about faith in preference to helping other people? Even helping enemies?