When is it right to.........?

Question

turn the other cheek??

Answer 1

Right, or acceptable, is a subjective term that would vary from person to person.

I would turn the other cheek when the blow was deserved, metaphorically speaking, or when peace was more important than confrontation.

Answer 2

Christ Jesus' implication includes the notion of divine Love's Truth shaming the perpetrator, i.e., the Presence of God as a "road to Damascus" experience in which the wrong is understood by the very Presence of Goodness, the "other cheek." The suffering of Goodness ought awaken in the perpetrator a repentance, not a lust to do it again. A reason why Christ does not answer Pilate's "what is truth?" is that the asker is simply ignorant of the Living Truth, and one does well not to "cast pearls before swine." "Be ye therefore wise as serpent [+/- relativity e-veiling], gentle as dove [of Spirit]."

Martha Beck provides some good examples of this in her "Expecting Adam," as do Reverend Richard Wurmbrand in his "Tortured for Christ" and Eknath Easwaran in his "Gandhi, the Man: The Story of His Transformation."

regards,

j.

Answer 3

Turning the other cheek means opening yourself to being slapped again. If you want to be that vulnerable, go for it. Otherwise, learn verbal martial arts.

Answer 4

when reacting to a situation that was to cause another wrong. Hence the old saying 2 wrongs doesn't make a right. That's when I turn away from a potentialy bad situation.

Answer 5

This is a Christian Principle, active non-violence, when someone slap you on one side and offer the other side, the person can not do it twice, his conscience will bother him, especially if the person is not fighting back.

Answer 6

Only when the offense is just to us. We cannot ignore justice for others.

Answer 7

In situations where you can ignore and move on. Not literally