[CyberAnt]

Exactly - the secret is to use the whole scripture to rightly divide what Jesus was saying.

And ... yes, it is a difficult task trying to decipher motives of the heart from another person's words.

[Paulus Invictus]

It is not just difficult, it is impossible at this remove (2000 years). Just think of the complexities involved: decifering scriptures that may or may not have been written in the earliest Christian times by who knows who in three or four different, now obsolete or dead languages. Almost all of the originals have been lost and "re-constructed" later over the centuries. Copies upon copies were made and many words or phrases may have ben changed over time in meaning due to huge cultural and religious biases of the scribes. That we have any coherence left in the Bible at all is amazing.