What does this mean to you?
** No extracts from the Bible or Quran please.. YOUR words only.. Thank you.
2006-11-12 22:14:39 · 12 answers · asked by *JC* 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes i know it is written in religious texts... and i know what it means from my point of view, i wanted to see what others thought.. This is Q&A isn't it?? Hence my question, I'm looking for your answers.
2006-11-12 22:38:43 · update #1
It is the Judeo/Christian equivalent of Karma...what you do to others will be done to you.
I like the bumper sticker I saw the other day...it said "GOD GIVE YOU DOUBLE WHAT YOU WISH FOR ME!"
Deeply religious people think its an insult as they wish evil for others and think they will get double the evil. Non religious types think it is a blessing...because they wish well for all people and want all to have freedom of thought. Non religious types are happy to wait for their reward of double freedom and happiness.
Live by the sword, die by the sword means you get what you give. Give vengence and pettiness and you will get that in return. It isn't a spiritual idea, its a natural one.
2006-11-12 22:28:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a reference to karma and reincarnation. This is just one of many sayings in the Bible that don't make sense until you include the perspective of multiple lifetimes. If you restrict it to one life only, then it becomes mere poetry, because we know that people can live their whole lives "by the sword" and die peacefully in their beds. Though, there may be an overall tendency for violent people to die violently. So people who believe in one lifetime only take it that way, as a poetic statement, kind of like "A stitch in time saves nine" or "a rolling stone gathers no moss." But if you interpret it as the original writers did, with a background understanding of reincarnation and karma, then it is literal. Sooner or later, in one lifetime or another, the person who lives the the sword will have the balancing-out experience of dying by the sword.
2006-11-13 06:24:06 · answer #2 · answered by ssake1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that people who practice murder shall find their end on day on the hand of another murderer. In other words, what goes around comes around.
2006-11-13 06:18:04 · answer #3 · answered by seek_fulfill 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You realize this phrase comes from the Bible, right?
It means if you use violence, you will get violence in return.
2006-11-13 06:29:59 · answer #4 · answered by Sister Christian 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bin laden.
2006-11-13 06:20:20 · answer #5 · answered by Nabil 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
whatever u fighting with from same weapon u wil die
2006-11-13 06:23:45 · answer #6 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use violence, get violence back to you.
(I hate to tell you this, but that is also what the bible means by it)
2006-11-13 06:17:29 · answer #7 · answered by Slave to JC 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You die how you live.
2006-11-13 06:20:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you're completely outdated with your point of view.
2006-11-13 06:18:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
live for god dy for god! thats what it means to me
2006-11-13 06:24:49 · answer #10 · answered by swd897 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋