Hating your enemies only gives them power over you. Instead, pray for them.
Discussion
"You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven." Matthew 5:43–45
"Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
Romans 12:19–21
I do not belive that a loving God is vengeful.
Man is.
It is unloving for the perfect Judge not to avenge injustice
This
No. Not this.
This is extremist.
There is no god that wants revenge. There is a loving god and that's it.
This is a pathetic take.
I believe Romans 12: 9 thru 21 provides the character clarification u seek.
"It is written" within references Deuteronomy 32:35 & 41
I believe the bible was written by men that didn't know what the sun was.
I believe there are passages in that book that are a abhorrent that outweigh any good passage that if you followed them today you would be in prison.
I believe tradition is peer pressure from dead people that some are slaves to.
I must give you credit for recognizing that these positions are your beliefs, which you are obviously free to hold.
I actually believed as you did most of my life, but in my 30s made the "mistake" of reading this book. Ends up that context matters. It's a story that is progressing from one rule, to no rules, to 1000s of rules and instant justice to 'do as you will' under all conditions. The endgame being that there won't be any "but ifs" at the end regarding actual human character vs His desire for ure character. IE there is relational behavior that is compatible with living forever and behavior that isnt.
We can likely at least agree to stay humble and stack sats ^^
Bullshit.
You are doing Christianity wrong.
Enjoy meeting your maker Jordan. Wear shorts when you do.
Hmm when u muted me for agreeing with u my notifications flashed me ure whole #mute list. Wish Ida ss'd that. Seems not ideal lol.
I don't understand this either. The only thing I know is you get the notification & it lets you know that the person has blocked your profile. I guess this is for you to know they can't see your posts because you can still write to them.
Actually the best is to ignore.
When you give time & energy you make the thing stronger.
So
Put time and energy into the things you want more of. And ignore what you want less of.
a lot of people talk smack about something they don't like. (they put time and energy into it) and guess what you are making it stronger.
Ignore it. its like not watering a plant it will die.
Long text but the idea is that you should put time & energy into what you want more of. And complwtely ignore what you want less of.