Feed Your Friend - Starve Your Enemy? That is NONSENSE!

HubBlogs with GADEL ^ | Saturday, August 6, 2011 | GADEL

[GADEL]

If you are left in an island with a piece of bread and two people all starving to death, your friend before you and your enemy behind you, who would you feed?

Would you pick and choose your friend who has been so good to you or would you pick your enemy who has consistently attempted but failed in killing you? Well, anyone who would choose friend over enemy is both emotionally and spiritually immature as I'll attempt to demonstrate.

I know many would chant, "Feed your friends - starve your enemies!" That is not just NONSENSE but diabolical at best.  Feed your enemies first for that is the LAW (of love) and the (way of) CHRIST! It is quite true that we are humans and as humans, we are emotional beings. It is also a fact that we are both rational and spiritual beings too.  By our emotional and rational natures, it makes sense to feed our friend as Saint Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle point out respectively:

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

"Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."

[GADEL]

Will you give the piece of bread to your enemy instead of your friend?

[humblegunner]

Will you post your full content instead of excerpting?

[Dr. Sivana]

I know nothing in Scripture or in Christian tradition that tells us to feed our enemy FIRST.

I give the piece of bread to my friend, and tell him that it will give him strength to help defeat our now dying enemy who should soon be fainting from hunger.

[trebb]

Will you give the piece of bread to your enemy instead of your friend?

Nope - not if it's one or the other. Don't pervert what Jesus said - it's good to forgive and treat your enemies good, but Biblically it is also described as pouring hot coals on their heads because it shows them how bad they are and how good you are in comparison - I fail to find where any Bible teaching tells us to starve ourselves or our friends so that our enemies might persist.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

If one is truly my friend, and one is without question my enemy, I will of course give the food to my friend. When I have grown too weak to fight from starvation, my friend will be alone facing a threat to his existence.

If I fail to feed my friend but aid my enemy, I will have endangered my friend by weakening him and strengthening the enemy. If I feed my friend and starve my enemy, I will have left my friend better able to defend himself and his life against a weaker threat.

To do otherwise is would prove I was never a friend in the first place. I will not betray one who has given me his trust.

[HarleyD]

I know nothing in Scripture or in Christian tradition that tells us to feed our enemy FIRST.

Absolutely correct. One can imagine who Elijah would give a piece of bread to if he had to choose between Jezebel and one of the prophets of God.

The early church really looked after their own-not society at large. The church grew simply because unbelievers noticed Christians took care of one another. And those invited to fellowship could be part of this. This is the way it continues today with our Christian brothers and sisters who live in oppressed societies. It's those of us who live with plenty who fail to miss this principle.

[Louis Foxwell]

Blog Hog,
Wrong again. It is your friend’s decision, in Christ, to give his bread, received at your hand, to your enemy. THAT is an act of Christian charity.
It is your duty, in Christ, to sacrifice your well being for your friend. If you feed your enemy and allow your friend to starve you curse your enemy, your friend, yourself and you slander Christ.

[BufordP]

Feed your enemy and starve your friend? You’ll quickly teach your friend that it doesn’t pay to be your friend and in short order you will have two enemies. Big DUH!

[IamCenny]

Okay, or feed your enemy and starve your friend. Then your enemy kills you. So two people die instead of one. As Spock would say.....

[Mach9]

False argument all round. Neither the Bible nor Aquinas nor GKC ever suggested that we feed our enemy at the expense of feeding a friend. Extending that logic would mean depriving family for the benefit of others. But it gets worse. Whether out of love or sheer stupidity we feed our enemies first, it’s not just appeasement, it’s empowering the enemy. Feed the enemy if and only if you’ve imprisoned him.

[darkwing104]

How selfish...Feed your Friend and give your portion to your enemy.

This is nothing more than selectively using scripture to justify redistribution.

Peace be with you.

[frankenMonkey]

[rwilson99]

So we should pay 100% tax to Obama, and let our families starve?

[ravenwolf]

Will you give the piece of bread to your enemy instead of your friend?

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Jesus says to love your enemy, he simply means that if you come up on some one who is hungry give them something to eat if you can, don,t let them starve just because they may be a dam socialist.

If your enemy is socialism and you choose to feed them instead of your friend then soon we will all be starving.

Of course i am saying this keeping in mind what we now face with the socialist agenda of redistribution of wealth.

If this really had anything to do with our spiritual warfare i would hate to be in a position to have to choose, but i think we will be safe on that point because if the socialist have their way the Christians will not have anything to share with anyone.

[ravenwolf]

This is nothing more than selectively using scripture to justify redistribution.

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Right.

[Taffini]

strengthen your enemy, starve your friend and get yourself killed, really smart....

[MosesKnows]

"Feed your friends - starve your enemies!"

The choices offered are an excellent example of how liberal logic based on false premises results in convoluted conclusions.

The scenario presented stated that both your friend and your enemy were starving. Therefore, whoever you do not feed is not starving because of your decision to feed the other.

[GADEL]

I’ll humbly consider that. Thanks a lot.

[GADEL]

Well, I respect your views. :)

[GADEL]

Interesting. Thanks a lot for your views.