Originally posted by sonhouseI seriously don't see that happening, but regardless, I would tell them to read their Bible and to love and honor their God and follow Jesus. We are charged with "enduring to the end", no matter how long that takes. And to take care not to be caught unawares.
If for some reason you lived to be 1000 years old and just before you die in the year 3000 and no hammer has come, what do you say to your upteenth great grandkids?
Originally posted by C HessIt was a mistaken notion that Jesus meant this for all situations. This was meant as a way of preventing the escalating of violence amoung normal friends and neighbors. Jesus was not referring to delusional people, like radicalized Islamic terrorists.
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Soooo, Jesus was wrong?
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Originally posted by RJHindsSeriously? Jesus said: "As a way of preventing the escalating of violence among normal friends and neighbors, turn the other cheek"?
It was a mistaken notion that Jesus meant this for all situations. This was meant as a way of preventing the escalating of violence amoung normal friends and neighbors. Jesus was not referring to delusional people, like radicalized Islamic terrorists.
Originally posted by C Hess
Seriously? Jesus said: "As a way of preventing the escalating of violence among normal friends and neighbors, turn the other cheek"?
"Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either."
(Luke 6:29 NASB)
When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus, saying, "Is that the way You answer the high priest?" Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify of the wrong; but if rightly, why do you strike Me?"
(John 18:22-23 NASB)
Obviously Jesus did not literally mean to turn the other cheek in all cases, for he did not offer himself to be stricken again in the above example. It is only an assertion of a principle of love.
