(November 11, 2015 at 3:49 pm)Drich Wrote:(November 11, 2015 at 12:56 pm)jenny1972 Wrote: jesus teachings of turning the other cheek and loving your enemies is much much different than bible gods attitude in the old testament ordering people to kill their enemies you must not know much about the massacres and atrocities god ordered people to do to their enemies in the OT
Those were God's enemies. The Law of moses allowed an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. In essence one could not go beyond the severity of the wrong commited against you. It was a upper limit, the option was to forgive. This is what Jesus pushed rather than take full avantage of what the law would allow. Nothing change, Jesus simply wanted people to look at it the other way.
exactly jesus/god and ot god were very very very different in their approaches to enemies , OT god was for destruction jesus-god was all about forgiving them (could they be more different?)
Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today 
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one - John Lennon
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain
Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you will join us And the world will be as one - John LennonThe easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also - Mark Twain
