A question for people who claim "The Bible" is the word of "God?"?

Question

The "Old Testament" says...
"An eye for an eye!"
The "New Testament" says
"Turn the other cheek!"
Which is IT, folks?!?
Ya can't have both, you dummies!

Answer 1

actually, it is both. when we disobey the laws of the land, we are subject to the punishments laid down by whatever government has jurisdiction.... hence, and eye for an eye... if we steal, we 'do the time'... if we kill, we 'do the time'....

if wrong is done to us.... we are to turn the other cheek and not seek to do harm back at whoever does the deed to us... if it is something against the laws of the land, they are subject to that law and its punishment... but we as Christians are not to pursue our own retaliation on a personal level

Answer 2

Scripture is the action, process or function (-ure) of scripts. It encourages writing even when times are tough. People tend to stop writing when even their professionals are telling them things are hopeless. Why they are doing this is another story. They may know more than they are saying. Maybe they've nicked off with the dosh and want everybody else to go away now.

Leviticus 24:19 If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him: 20 fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. As he has injured the other, so he is to be injured. 21 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death. 22 You are to have the same law for the alien and the native-born. I am the LORD your God.' "

From www.blueletterbible.com - The words here are doubled up. I'm still trying to get an answer back from a university in Israel about what this word structure means, as it appears in a few places. One of them is in Genesis 2:17 and it is translated "surely die" (muwth muwth). If you use this grammar, you could give an amateur reading to Leviticus as that the various parts are doubled in intensity. The words "to him" do not occur that I can see. The difference between "has done" and "done to him" at the end of verse 20 (KJV) is that the first is a simple action, whereas the second is passive and/or reflexive. A possible reading is to compare this with the middle voice endings of seleniazomai and daimoniazomai in New Testament Greek which are moonstruck (epileptic) and demon-possessed, respectively.

This would tend to indicate that these books are not necessarily the "law" so much as a set of instructions about various health concerns considering the existence of crime.

I think "turn the other cheek" implies a prayer to accompany any perception of being attacked. You are focussing your attention inwards (your inner room - Matthew 6:6) so as to put all your energies towards self-preservation, as is right before God.

Answer 3

Um, hello...it's a BIG something called grace! That's also why it is called Old and New hmmmm.......imagine that.
There was not grace in the Old Testament. Try reading the Bible in which some of us people know is the word of God and you might learn this and a lot of other good things :o) Truly amazing!
God Bless~

Answer 4

What Jesus was teaching when He said, "turn the other cheek" is that grace and forgiveness is better than revenge and getting even, since God also forgives us through the grace of Jesus Christ. The eye for an eye line is from the Law of Moses and deals with judgement. Jesus was making clear that forgiveness and mercy triumphs over judgement as He also proved on the cross.

Answer 5

An eye for an eye means don't exact more punishment that what the crime deserves, for example, if someone steals a loaf of bread don't put him in prison for 20 years.

Turn the other cheek is a matter of forgiveness in your heart. Forgiving someone because God has forgiven you will not change their punishment under the law. Example, if one of my family members is murdered, I should forgive the murderer, but that won't stop him/her from going to jail for the crime.

So it's both, actually. And calling people "dummies" really isn't going to win you any points. Have a lemon bar and rethink the whole "zen" thing, okay?

Answer 6

Turn the other cheek. It's from the New Testament. I believe it to be the foremost word of God. It updated some points from the Old Testament.

Answer 7

You seem to be trying to address the entire religious community on something people treat very differently. In the old testament there was no grace ( an eye for an eye)
However in the new testament, God sent his Son Jesus, who died for our sins, and that is God's grace, which we are expected to extend to others as well. I hope this explained at least the Christian view on the matter, a good question btw.
Cheers.

Answer 8

I would have appreciated it if you took off those quotation marks. The Bible IS the word of God. No doubt about that.

The OT did show violence but this was just the ancient Jews' idea of God. That he is to be feared. But those were in ancient times. "An eye for an eye" was a law of a king I guess and God did not put that in the ten commandments. This was the interpretation of the people.

But not to worry, Jesus came and told us that God is not to be feared and that he is a loving father to his children. Jesus revised many things to a more moral way. He stopped animal sacrifices and instead, he sacrificed himself for mankind. And this is not bloody, what he did, his blood is pure. Flesh to bread and blood to wine. Now that's a miracle!

Have faith! God bless! He loves you!

Answer 9

"I will destroy the wisdom of all those who claim to be wise. I will confuse those who think they know so much."
1 Corinthians 1:18

Jesus came and changed the OLD testament. For example sacrifices and what you eat ect.. were disregarded in the NEW testament.


( YOU KNOW THAT I TAUGHT "AN EYE FOR AN EYE AND A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH" BUT I TELL YOU NOT TO TRY TO TO GET EVEN WITH A PERSON WHO HAS DONE SOMETHING TO YOU.)
mathew 5:38-42

Answer 10

It seems clear Jesus was not criticising the law, but calling on his followers not only to refrain from the abuses the Law condemns, but to go to the opposite extreme by exercising forgiveness and love — even when one has a just claim to vengeance.

Answer 11

The Old Testament was written under Mosaic law.
The New Testament was written for the Church age, in which we now live, the age of Grace.