Bulletproof heart

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22574570-unoffendable

This is such BS.  I know I've never felt angry with perfect wisdom and measure, and **harboring** anger is never righteous, but I'm pretty sure obtaining a bulletproof heart is just not going to happen.  It's a fruitless pursuit.  The Bible never says never be angry.  It does say "No murdering", but the original old testament readers of that text would not have equated being angry with murder.  The sentencing God issues for murder in the ot -- the death penalty -- does not carry over to people who call their fellow kinsman "fool".  The point Jesus was making in Matthew ch5 about murder/anger was not that they are the same thing.  The point He was making is that WE CANNOT SAVE OURSELVES.  Obviously, **actual** bloodshed is far worse than calling a fellow churchgoer a heathen. After the "beatitudes", Jesus is telling people about the kind of righteousness they should be thirsty and hungry for.  Jesus will give you peace that overcomes anger in accordance with your hunger for it, but getting angry for a moment or two is not something we need to eradicate.  

"Get angry

but do not sin."

If you can't keep from falsely accusing your adversary or saying stupid shit, or flying off the handle, then obviously you really should just not get angry if there's anything you can do to help it.  But I know there's times I've gotten angry and I dealt with it appropriately.  Maybe not with utter perfection.  Maybe if I ever get a grip on my idolatry, gluttony and laziness etc, I might care more about at least coming closer to perfection in the ways I deal with my anger but I am not going to be unoffendable.  I'm not specifically interested in trying to be offended, but I don't know how a person living on this planet is even legally allowed to pursue being unofendedable and actually succeeding.  If David had committed to that, then Nathan's analogy about David's own sin would have been useless.  And if you look at the text, Nathan wasn't just some neutral party in the whole thing either.