It turns out that a Christian is not obliged to forgive his enemies? God will forgive?Jesus also preached "if they hit you on the left cheek, turn the right one".
Yes, taken from the personal injury law stating a life for a life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.
A slap on the cheek isn't even on the list as a personal injury. At the time a slap on the cheek was considered an insult not an assault. Thats how slaves were treated.
Jesus was teaching that sticks and stones break bones, but names will never hurt me kind of thought.In other words .. don't seek retaliation in court for an insult that doesn't qualify as an injury.
He was not teaching people to not defend themselves against violence or to believe that seeking retaliation or restitution in court for any evil suffered is wrong.
What kind of person would teach people that they just have to take shit from everybody? Not Jesus. He didn't take shit from anybody.
Jesus said that if a person repents you should forgive them every time. If not....do the math.
When Jesus was dying on the cross he asked God to forgive them, "because they know not what they do", and look what happened to Judea.
Jesus said that if they were blind they would not be guilty of sin.
They must have known exactly what they were doing.
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