I can understand forgiving as insult from a friend, neighbor, or family member but come on folks.......it can't apply to everything. If someone killed my son I wouldn't let them kill my daughter. I mean come on already.
2007-03-17 21:09:54 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think there must be a lost commandment or something. Probably something like "do as though will to crush your enemies to pink mist if they take it too far."
2007-03-17 21:19:59 · update #1
Get the law involved. Good one sheeple. What would you do in a lawless place? Just nevermind.
2007-03-17 21:23:40 · update #2
Man, I wish more people would learn the Greek and Hebrew idioms or some of the street lingo from history. Sorry to be so blunt but it was analogy of sorts. If you go up to a preacher in the middle of his sermon and tell him he's lying to the congregation, you deserve the slap in the face. It's his church house. If, on the other hand, you have your own church house and you tell someone what you don't want taught there and they slap you, you have every right to slap them back. Jesus took a whip to the backs of the money changers when He found them in the temple changing money in HIS Father's house. Where was He when He turned the other cheek?
2007-03-17 21:17:22 · answer #1 · answered by aintnobeans 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think a lot of the point is to not let bitterness or revenge consume us. But we definitely should get the law involved when dealing with things such as murders. We're actually protecting more people that way, anyway.
Perhaps we should forgive even the murders for our own sakes---not let them get away with it, but not feel bitter about it. That's what I think Christ wants. It's super hard to do, but I can see it as being the best thing to do so that we can move on, and so being the easiest thing when all is said and done.
2007-03-18 04:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by Laurel W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turning the other cheek is a measure of ones forgiveness. It can also be interpreted as a tolerance of forgiveness without any hateful vengeance.
Jesus Christ demonstrated this while being nailed to the cross by saying, "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
2007-03-18 04:23:22 · answer #3 · answered by ATIJRTX 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, The Amish, I think, had what Jesus taught in mind when a gunman entered an Amish school and killed.Parents and members of the Amish community immediately forgave him and extended the forgiveness to his family.Now, that is turning the other cheek.
2007-03-18 04:16:29 · answer #4 · answered by Demopublican 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gods laws do NOT prevent seeking legal justice for crimes.
As far as your example. Extreme as it is. The person doing the killing would be a sinner. SO in that context...
"~Better to live a lifetime suffering as a CHRISTIAN, than to live eternity as a sad lonely sinner~"
2007-03-18 04:14:37 · answer #5 · answered by dbzgalaxy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look to Curly Howard as your paradigm of hope. How many times did he turn the other cheek? Let our brothers the Stooges show us the way.
2007-03-18 04:14:51 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Meat 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It applies to yourself, comparable to going the extra mile.
2007-03-18 04:15:51 · answer #7 · answered by Gary B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I haven't seen any Christians adhering to this particular rule--ever.
Please give me one documented case of official Christianity--any sect, any ruler, any pope--following this precept.
It is quoted in theory but forgotten in practice, imo.
2007-03-18 04:13:53 · answer #8 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A proper spanking involves both cheeks, anyway.
2007-03-18 04:12:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I think this is God's way of telling us to mock our enemies. If they slap you, moon them.
2007-03-18 05:14:13 · answer #10 · answered by Phil 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋