You seem to be agreeing with Pope Francis that this commandment of Jesus is very, very hard for men to accept, and entirely contrary to the calculations of worldly reason.
As Msgr. Charles Pope mentions in his article today, with this kind of talk, Jesus got just about everyone against Him.
Dear Tax-chick,
I am disagreeing with the Pope because Christians made a serious error when they assumed Jesus had departed from Mosaic Law regarding forgiveness of evil. Jesus was an Essene, a practicing Jew.
There are rumors that G*d was the source of Jewish law, something about some Commandments given at some remote “Mount Sinai”.
I draw your attention to Jesus intolerance of the minor evils of the “financial service providers” around the Temple and to his actions when facing said evil.
Knowing the falibility of Man, and having acepted the need for forgiveness does not give any Christian reason to cravenly allow evil to continue. I suggest that both Jews and Jesus expected the individual to oppose evil, to exert best possible efforts to stop further acts of evil, and to follow the rules for forgiveness.
Those rules worked.
Perhaps there is a reason Jews have followed that rule, allegedly given to them by G*d, for thousands of years.