Posted on 04/21/2022 7:38:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes and pray for them as well.
Romans 12:20
King James
Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Yes, but only until you run out of cheeks
Most people don’t realize that number is 4 unfortunately
G.K. Chesterton pointed out that Our Lord didn’t have a lot to say about the occupying Roman army, except that he generally got along with them.
You don’t have to hate your enemies to fight for your freedom and faith.
Many soldiers in WWII didn’t hate the Krauts or the Nips, in fact that was a sign of weakness to hate them. Those that understood what they were fighting for fought to the death for the cause of freedom and didn’t hate, and often respected their enemies.
Paul the Apostle had much opposition and many adversaries in his good fight of faith and grace. He, too, fought to the death but didn’t hate his enemies. His enemies were the ones he was trying to help and save.
I would have to call that title a false dichotomy.
I tell my kids as they are becoming CCW age. If you need to use it, you will most likely be sending them to Hell.
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Cause he was a Roman psi-op ?
I wish that I had the strength to love Democrats.
Matthew 8:5-13 King James Version 5 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 8 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. 9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. 10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. 11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven.
There are worse things than killing your enemy.
For instance,when the enemy teaches your toddlers about sex. And your supposed government pays for it.
IMNSHO that is worse than putting a bullet in someone’s head.
Loving our enemies comes from the same place in G-d that tells us to love the sinner. We know G-d does not mean for us to love the sin. We are to condem the sin.
G-d also does not want us to love a war an enemy commits against us. He expects us to condem the war. The problem comes when we fail to sperate the two parts and wind up not codemning the bad that the sin or the enemy is doing.
I think that CS Lewis said
“I have often thought to myself how it would have been if, when I served in the first World War, I and some young German had killed each other simultaneously and found ourselves together a moment after death. I cannot imagine that either of us would have felt any resentment or even any embarrassment. I think we might have laughed over it (p. 119).” Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Lewis thought war horrible, but not the worst thing that could happen to us. To kill or to be killed in war is not murder. Rather, war is a species of punishment that may require our death or the death of the enemy, but we cannot hate or enjoy hating those we kill.
Turning the other cheek is one of the most if not the most misinterpreted scripture in the Bible.
It doesn’t mean we let people walk all over us.
Also, the Bible mentions righteous anger.
There are times when anger is not sin.....e.g. if an elderly person is being beaten up and you step in and beat the snot outta the attacker I would consider that righteous anger and not sin.
You don’t have to allow evil to love your enemy. Stop him... and pray for his salvation. We are Easter people. We long for resurrection and Heaven. There are times when you have to usher some people on their way.
Love them to death...
That’s the appropriate verse.
You wanna pour coals of fire on your enemy’s head? Pray for them.
I do understand, just being cheeky
All depends on how the words “love” and “hate” are defined. I’ve always maintained there are circumstances where hate can rightfully be considered a virtue.
Regarding this paragraph:
“Some might quip in facetious response, “So, it looks like this? Before the sniper shoots the enemy in the head, he mutters under his breath, ‘Jesus loves you, and so do I. Here’s a token of my love. Bang!’””
It gave me this sarcastic thought “It is easier to kill the enemy if he is a godless commie.”
Brown has written a good article.
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