"but if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well" a qoute by Jesus, what does it mean?
2007-07-20 15:57:00 · 14 answers · asked by namso141 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It means "Sit there like a passive sheep while we come in, raze your villages and rape your women and girls, take your men as slaves or kill them, and forcibly convert you to our new religion Christianity - or we'll kill you if you resist."
It's suppose to actually be the antidote to the Jewish "Eye for an Eye" thing, but it isn't, because "Eye for an Eye" in Jewish law meant then, as it does now, that if someone puts out your eye, you take them to court and are compensated monetarily. It never, ever meant that the person who put your eye out would have to have his put out as well, like Christianity teaches that it means. Just another bit of propaganda on their part meant to show Jews as mindless savages who cannot think outside their dry box of the law.
2007-07-20 16:02:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Jesus was teaching that a Christian does not need to pay back blow for blow, retaliating, taking vengeance. He was inculcating the principle of avoiding quarrels by not replying or reacting in kind. A slap on the cheek is not intended to injure physically but only to insult or to provoke into a fight. Jesus did not say that if someone strikes a Christian on the jaw, he should get up off the floor and hold the other side of his face for a target. What Jesus was saying was that if anyone tried to provoke a Christian into a fight or argument by either slapping him with an open hand or stinging him with insulting words, it would be wrong to retaliate. This is in harmony with the statements of the apostles, giving further emphasis to this principle.—Ro 12:17-21; 1Pe 3:9.
2007-07-20 23:02:06 · answer #2 · answered by ldybugg93 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that is in Mathew of the New Testament...they were trying to change how people acted toward each other but went off the deep end.
He was saying to 'turn the other cheek' and not give "an eye for an eye", etc.
2007-07-20 23:22:06 · answer #3 · answered by Malachi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is talking about personal attracts more likely verbal, God gave people permission to protect themselves
(Exodus 22:2-3) . . .(“If a thief should be found in the act of breaking in and he does get struck and die, there is no blood guilt for him. 3 If the sun has shone forth upon him, there is blood guilt for him. . .(THIS is saying that if you strike someone in the dark your not liable, but in the daytime you can run away or otherwise protect yourself
2007-07-20 23:08:33 · answer #4 · answered by zorrro857 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means if someone hits you in the face on one side then you are suppose to let them hit the other as well and not hit them back. That is the very short way to put it.
2007-07-20 23:01:05 · answer #5 · answered by Love not hate 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A slap on the Face is small stuff.
It can lead into Big Stuff.
Try to stop the small from becoming big.
If you are Attacked, DEFEND yourself.
Try running like hell first, if that don't work, FIGHT!!!
And, WIN!
Ditto.......
2007-07-20 23:07:33 · answer #6 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It simply means it takes a good man to stand and fight but it takes a better man to walk away.
2007-07-20 23:02:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It means you are supposed to be patient and forgiving of people who behave badly.
2007-07-20 23:02:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means not to be vengeful but to be forgiving. In being forgiving you are showing love and compassion instead of anger and hate.
2007-07-20 23:02:19 · answer #9 · answered by Erin C 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means if hit don't rashly pick a fight. Count to ten and let them have another whack if it makes them feel good.
2007-07-20 23:10:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋