(August 26, 2015 at 1:14 pm)robvalue Wrote: The "love they neighbour" bit, in the comparatively tiny New Testament, is the equivalent of father saying the odd "kind" thing now and then while beating the shit out of you the rest of the time.The "love thy neighbor" bit is not original to the New Testament. It was copied from Leviticus 19:18.
https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Leviticus%2019:18
BTW, it only applied to fellow Israelite neighbors.