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Stegley:
Christ commants in His Sermon on The Mount to "Love your enemies."  Today in America with all of our Religious resources, freedoms, and protections, who exactly are our enemies?  Anyone?

We need to identify them so that we can obey Jesus by loving them.  Remember, Jesus was talking about actual enemies, and not about people who were just rude, were unkind, had alternative lifestyles, or were a nuisance.

Hal:

--- Quote from: Stegley on December 08, 2013, 07:44:01 pm ---Christ commants in His Sermon on The Mount to "Love your enemies."  Today in America with all of our Religious resources, freedoms, and protections, who exactly are our enemies?  Anyone?

We need to identify them so that we can obey Jesus by loving them.  Remember, Jesus was talking about actual enemies, and not about people who were just rude, were unkind, had alternative lifestyles, or were a nuisance.

--- End quote ---

Actually Jesus was talking about unbelievers who are about to prosecute him. Unbelievers to this day still try to prosecute our Lord by going after those who worship him. Matthew 12:30 NAS
[The Unpardonable Sin] "He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

Stegley:
Did you perhaps have some examples of this "going after those who worship Him" today in America which you have theorized about?

I was also wondering where in the Text it shows Jesus was "actually" talking about those who were going to persecute Him.  Remember, Scripture explains and reveals itself, and human imaginations and suppositions reveal nothing at all.

JB Horn:

--- Quote ---We need to identify them so that we can obey Jesus by loving them.  Remember, Jesus was talking about actual enemies, and not about people who were just rude, were unkind, had alternative lifestyles, or were a nuisance.
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Really, and exactly what is your definition of love? Is it love to allow a child to go undisciplined? Is it love the standby and watch one nation plunder another nation? Is it love the standby and allow people's freedoms to be taken from them? Is it love the standby and watch a woman being raped and not try to stop it? Is it love to take the laborers of one man and give it to a man who refuses to work?

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.

Matthew 22:36 "Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law ?" 37 And He said to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' 38 "This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 "The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' 40 "On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."

But yet we do battle with them:

Deuteronomy 20:1 NAS
[Laws of Warfare] "When you go out to battle against your enemies and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the LORD your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt, is with you.

Deuteronomy 23:14 NAS
"Since the LORD your God walks in the midst of your camp to deliver you and to defeat your enemies before you, therefore your camp must be holy ; and He must not see anything indecent among you or He will turn away from you.

JB Horn:

--- Quote from: Stegley on December 08, 2013, 09:13:36 pm ---Did you perhaps have some examples of this "going after those who worship Him" today in America which you have theorized about?

I was also wondering where in the Text it shows Jesus was "actually" talking about those who were going to persecute Him.  Remember, Scripture explains and reveals itself, and human imaginations and suppositions reveal nothing at all.

--- End quote ---

Me ask you what enemies did (does) Christ have? "Actually"  have you ever heard the term antichrist?

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