(August 24, 2019 at 11:44 pm)EgoDeath Wrote:(August 24, 2019 at 11:36 pm)Acrobat Wrote: Okay please explain to me what Jesus meant by fulfilling it? He provides example of fulfilling the law, when he takes the OT instruction of an eye for an eye, and transforms into turn the other cheek? How does the latter fulfill the former?
If the laws were unfulfilled before, what does Christ mean by fulfilling them?
Now you're attempting to change the argument here. Stay on point. "Oh! But I am staying on point!"
No you're not. That the Bible has glaring contradictions in it means nothing. I'm not repeating myself anymore.
Besides, turning the cheek may not mean literal pacifism. But even if it does, so what if the Bible contradicts itself? What's new?
It’s not a contradiction, there’s a relationship between the idea of an eye for an eye, and turn the other cheek, that lays at the heart of the meaning of what it means to ‘fulfill’ the law. Hence why Jesus uses it as an example in the same passage.
You seem to support the argument that the verse you quoted indicates that real Christians ought practice an eye for an eye, a point refuted in the same passage your quoting a from.