Biblical implications of being a bad-ass

Good morning,

As I sit here doing nothing this morning, I thought I'd look at what the bible has to say about GOOD Vs. EVIL. I've copied a few excerpts from the 'Children's big bumper bible book' to illustrate:

"Beware of false teachers who come disguised as harmless sheep, but are wolves and will tear you apart. You can detect them by the way they act, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit. You need never confuse grapevines with thorn bushes or figs with thistles. Different kinds of fruit trees can quickly be identified by examining their fruit. A variety that produces delicious fruit never produces an inedible kind. And a tree producing an inedible kind can't produce what is good. So the trees having the inedible fruit are chopped down and thrown on the fire. Yes, the way to identify a tree or a person is by the kind of fruit produced. "Not all who sound religious are really godly people. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but still won't get to heaven. For the decisive question is whether they obey my Father in heaven. At the Judgment many will tell me, 'Lord, Lord, we told others about you and used your name to cast out demons and to do many other great miracles.' But I will reply, 'You have never been mine. Go away, for your deeds are evil.'

(TLB, Matthew 7:15-23)

Not to sure what that's all about, I liked the part about 'false teachers disguised as sheep' though. I found that moderately amusing. The rest of this passage is about fruit trees, and telling which is which, I think I would have used a better analogy, but I suspect whoever wrote this was drunk at the time. And now a little something from Luke:

"The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks."

(NIV, Luke 6:45)

This seems to be an attempt to point out the obvious, and could have been cut down in length to "Good Heart=Good Mouth or Bad Heart=Bad Mouth" I appreciate this wouldn't have been as poetic, but it would saved a lot of time. And I think to wrap up this entry; I will finish off with a bit of Isaiah:

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight!"

(NAS, Isaiah 5:20-21)

If I wanted to have some 'woe' this would be perfect entry for me, I like this one best.

Glen