IF YOU LOVE YOU WILL NOT HURT.
Vengeance is mine saith the Lord.
2007-10-22 00:58:21 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes
source: my body.(if 100% in love)
Have a nice day.
2007-10-25 20:48:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Make no mistake about it--love can hurt worse than almost anything most of us will encounter in a lifetime. Perfect love is attained by very few. Perhaps St. Francis would be a good example of someone who achieved a level of active, conscious loving that physical pain was no longer relavent. Most of us will never get quite as far as that, though it wouldn't hurt if more people tried!
Vengeance? Humans can go very far astray if they try to "play God." We actually start believing that we--either as individuals, or "we" as a society--can be the ones personally injured when a crime is committed. Actually, the One chiefly offended is God, and therefore vengeance is His prerogative. Many people spout nonsense about "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" thinking that it means they are justified if they get the other person back. In context, that quote states the absolute outside limit of punishment in retribution for an offense. Many people conveniently forget that FORGIVENESS can be the appropriate response. Hmm. That sort of brings us back to St. Francis, doesn't it?
2007-10-22 08:13:38 · answer #2 · answered by Gryphon Noir 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It has also been said that you always hurt the one you love. Neither premise is in the Bible.
Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord IS in the Bible and like all God's commands turns out to be the best policy to live our lives by.
2007-10-22 08:04:57 · answer #3 · answered by Prof Fruitcake 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think if you "love your neighbor as yourself................as I have loved you" your hurt will be unbearable at their suffering, unless you accept that God has made the best of all possible worlds, and has everything completely in hand; somehow it is necessary that baby koala's burn up in forest fires.
"Vengeance is mine saith the Lord" means we are not to take vengeance on anyone.
2007-10-22 22:26:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sentence 1 = incorrect...to see just how incorrect, review Duet. 32:39. Remember, through love God sent His only Son to die for sins He never committed. He suffered and died -- I'm sure their was alot of hurt.
Sentence 2 = truth.
Man has neither the authority nor responsibility to judge others. We are commanded to love one another. Love does not imply that consequenses of sin are absolved.
Quoting scripture is not judgement. The Law condemns, not the one sharing the Law. Christians, on the other hand, are held to a higher standard -- they are to hold one another accountable.
2007-10-22 08:20:41 · answer #5 · answered by BowtiePasta 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) If the first statement is true, then it stands to reason we often don't 'get' what love is. We put our own wants and needs first, and when things don't turn out the way we planned, "love" hurts.
2) I think the second statement was God's way of telling people to stop being a*holes to each other. If God has things under control (and in that statement, God leaves little room for guessing), then we don't have to concern ourselves with justice. It's handled.
2007-10-22 08:06:19 · answer #6 · answered by Jenny 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Loving doesn't mean you'll never hurt.
2. Since God is God and creator of all he is the only one that can do just vengeance.
Deuteronomy 32:35-38 To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your protection.
2007-10-22 08:11:20 · answer #7 · answered by Matt 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I love I will not hurt...hmmm, depends on what context it was used in.
As for vengeance being God's, only he is what's perfect and can exact pure justice. Us humans are imperfect but sometimes we do feel vengeful inside because of evil humans in the world that attack us for no real reason at all but onlythat they are filled with wickedness.
When these troublesome times arise, I have to pray very hard, otherwise I'm no good on my own, not strong enough as at times I feel I could easily tear off the faces of my enemies.
It's good that only HE can exact pure justice and punishment because we imperfect humans tend to mess things up worse off than when we started when we apply "our own justice".
Hope this has helped.
2007-10-22 08:06:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
My husband left me for someone else after 29 years of marriage and six children together. I never did anything to hurt him back. But now I see the hand of God torturing him and his new wife and even my kids are rejecting him now and it is very painful to see , but God said that His wrath is going to come and no matter what we pray for them, it will not stop God.
2007-10-22 14:12:12 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) If you love, you will hurt, but if you don't love, you will also hurt. Better to love.
2) Let God take care of vengeance. It doesn't work when we dish it out ourselves. It always comes back at the one who was vengeful and perpetuates itself. Try forgiveness instead.
2007-10-22 08:06:03 · answer #10 · answered by Suen 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Statement one is wrong. Sometimes the loving thing to do does hurt.
Statement two is wrong because there is no God. I also really dislike the word vengeance.
2007-10-22 08:05:17 · answer #11 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋