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.
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?
Rather ? let those who preach it live in those conditions and see how they fair or actually do what they preach.