"You, atheists take Bible quotes out of context"

[Jesster]

Yes, the context is generally that. That is exactly my problem with it. The context doesn't improve on the meaning behind the direct passage that I posted. It's the same kind of problem that I have with people like Mother Teresa. Suffering is supposed to be a good thing? Yes, please treat me poorly. God wants me to accept that. Enslave me, beat me, and stick me up on a cross so I can be more like Jesus.

If you want me to be okay with this kind of passage, then we are never going to see eye to eye.

If don't think that one can seek to suffer and it be the same?  And I also wouldn't agree, that God wants us to suffer. The Gospel is quite the opposite. I don't go around beating myself with a stick or anything.

Thank you for your interpretation, but that's another game entirely. This is a thread about the context game. We can move onto why the other method is just as bad another day.

In the meantime, you haven't at all defended that passage to me. You've twisted it around to another angle. The passage says, and you've even admitted it yourself, that you should accept the suffering that others give you. It is supposed to be noble to just take it instead of rejecting it. Like I said before, this is exactly why I don't agree with it. This is Mother Teresa's kind of justification. It also enables slavers.