Posted on 05/26/2013 12:19:47 PM PDT by Salvation
The hot links to related Scripture did not post.
Find them here.
http://www.christianbiblereference.org/jneighbr.htm
What if my neighbor is trying to kill me or bring about the destruction of my nation? Easy to preach; hard to practice...; )
From the article we have the words of Jesus:
**”There is a saying, ‘Love your friends and hate your enemies.’ But I say: Love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way you will be acting as true sons of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust too. If you love only those who love you, what good is that? Even scoundrels do that much. If you are friendly only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even the heathen do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect. (TLB, Matthew 5:43-48)**
What if my neighbor works for the IRS trying to destroy my liveliyhood, my business, my financial well being and in the mean time making sure we have a MARXISTS in office?
Nope, can't do it.
Amen...I live in Red England...extremely hard to practice when your neighbors are all foul-mouthed supporters of abortion, the sodomite agenda, and the Communist Agenda.
What if my neighbor is a homo?
“Hate the sin; love the sinner” is what they tell us.
I often have the impression that we do not always correctly interpret Jesus’ teachings.
What if my neighbor wants to kill me? Should I allow him/her to do so?
If that were so, the human race would not survive and only evil would be victorious.
Somewhere He said: “If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out... etc.”
If I were to pluck my eye out because it caused me to sin, I would have been blind a long time ago and I would have been guilty of self-mutulation — something that is a very grave sin. So, what is it?
Exactly, for a rational ethics,one must consider context and consequences. And one must take into account cause and effect.
The original scripture for love your neighbor is found in Leviticus 19:18: “Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against anyone among your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.”
Self-Defense is Biblical:
http://www.lawandliberty.org/defense.htm
http://www.survivalnewsonline.com/index.php/2010/07/the-bible-and-self-defense/
http://www.biblicalselfdefense.com/
Was Jesus a pacifist?
http://www.faithdefenders.com/articles/theology/jesus_pacifist_t.html
And this was from a Christian website — not even a Catholic website.
Go figure!
No, I will not love my neighbors.
Sometimes we don’t like what our children do and we tell them that. And usually in my home, there was a punishment attached.
However, don’t we always “love” our children?
Isn’t it the same with neighbors?
We may not like them, but God calls us to a higher level to love them as a fellow being made in His Own Image!
Well if I defend my life from a Muslim attacker and shoot and kill him I will not be jumping for joy on the outside but I may feel like the Muzzie had it coming which may not be the Christian thing to do but what do you want me to do? Lie about it and sin twice?...: )
No, I will not love my neighbors.
Rather ? let those who preach it live in those conditions and see how they fair or actually do what they preach.
I wonder about the accuracy of that translation. Here is a collection of translations;
http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Luk&c=10&t=NASB#vrsn/29
“Which neighbors” has a different meaning than “who is my neighbor”. The man who had fallen among thieves was the example of who was the neighbor. The one who helped was the one who was loving a neighbor;
“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?” And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”
“Mercy” is an interesting word to use in this context. We usually think of mercy as something to be extended to those who have done wrong, not to those who have had wrong done to them.
As I said above, this was from a Christian site, not a Catholic site.
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