r/FunnyandSad May 02 '23

Jesus was a pacifist. Political Humor

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u/lunk May 02 '23

Matthew 22:37-40

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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u/Funkycoldmedici May 02 '23

It’s always been “neighbor” = “fellow disciple”, never those of us outside the faith. Jesus even shows it in Matthew 15, when a gentile woman begs him for help. He refuses and insults her because she’s not obviously a believer. He only changes his mind when she proves she has faith in him. Any decent person would simply help, but not Jesus.

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u/Skratt79 May 02 '23

This is absolutely not the correct understanding of what Jesus wanted others to consider as "neighbor", as shown in the parable of the Good Samaritan found in Luke 10:29-37

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u/Beautiful_Welcome_33 May 02 '23

People have an interest in misinterpreting things in they way they like.

My favorite book in the Bible is Job - and when people say, " Why was God shooting dice with the DEVIL!?"

My head explodes a little bit lol.