Originally posted by sonhouse 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?
I 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.
Originally posted by RJHinds But it was not until 1095 that the the Roman Catholic Pope Urban II in Italy decided that the "turn the other cheek" policy was not working
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 RJHinds 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.
Seriously? Jesus said: "As a way of preventing the escalating of violence among normal friends and neighbors, turn the other cheek"?
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.
Originally posted by RJHinds 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 divegeester Your inability to answer the question is noted, as is your usual oafish, low-brow, casual attitude to religious torture.
I answered the question. Again, beheading the saints by Islamic extremist Muslims is worse than evil Muslims being tormented for their evil deeds for ever and ever. 😏
HalleluYaH !!!
Praise the LORD !!!
Holy! Holy! Holy!
Originally posted by RJHinds I answered the question. Again, beheading the saints by Islamic extremist Muslims is worse than evil Muslims being tormented for their evil deeds for ever and every
You haven't answered the question.
I asked you "how can it be worse?". Simply stating that it is worse, or that your version of Jesus told you it was worse, doesn't make it worse.
How can being decapitated once, here in the world, possibly be a worse experience than being tortured for eternity in a burning hell?
Islamic Jihad (holy war)
07 Dec '15 20:43
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