Shain
Your reasoning is ridiculous. So, according to you, christians are not to be light, not to be salt , cannot get persecuted for righteousness sake, we are not to mourn ,not to be peacemakers when Paul says we are to live peacably with all men????

I have been line by line thru the Beatitudes and the new testament hundreds of times and you have your own agenda for discarding these verses. They are needed NOW, not in the millenium where Christ is ruling and reigning with a rod of iron. This teaching is what hyper dispensationalism teaches, that the gospels do not apply to the church. Have you joined their ranks in part??

You show me where in the Bible where it states that these beatitudes cannot be applied to the church?????I will take the scriptures word for it, not yours.