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>>755203

What has that to do with my question?

>>755200 (OP)

>What does it mean to love our enemy?

It means exactly what it says. I fail to see what is ambiguous about Matthew 5:43-48.

>All my enemies

Ephesians 6:12

>Are we supposed to love Jews

Yes.

>>755209

The same way we love God? The highest form of love? Not the way you love a good song? Not in the way to recognise sentience in your enemy?

If I ruthlessly ruin your life and your children and their children's are you supposed to love me?

>>755210

>The same way we love God?

Of course not, but you're not supposed to love anything the way you love God.

>If I ruthlessly ruin your life and your children and their children's are you supposed to love me?

Yes.

ITT: /pol/ tries to prove Christians are "cucked".

>What does it mean to love our enemy?

It means to want the best for them, because they are children of God and He created them. This includes:

- praying and trying to convert them so that they may avoid hell

- helping them in their need

- praying for their well-being in this life (unless their hardship can bring them to Christ)

>All my enemies are the worst kinds of cheaters and backstabbers

<God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican

There is no rightous, not one. The only reason why you're not worse than them is the grace of God, which you can't claim credit for

>Are we supposed to love Jews our enemy the way we love God?

No, we are supposed to love Jews as we would love any other people

>>755200 (OP)

>the way we love God?

Uh, no? Where did you get that from?

>>755208

(S)he means that you don’t hate those who do bad to you or treat you poorly. You pray for them to change. In your case, Op, you shouldn’t necessarily trust them or hang around them, but treat them kindly when your paths cross and forgive them for their past sins

>>755200 (OP)

If you truly love them you'll kill them so they stop sinning and accumulating punishment in hell :^)

>>755333

Trips for murder! :^)

Paul was an enemy of Christ, we are supposed to pray that they turn from evil and turn to Christ. To love someone is to will what is good for them. It's not good to wish evil & suffering upon your enemy, even if that's the natural instinct we have.

Of course this is easier said than done, and even God eventually gives up and just burns entire cities to the ground cause everyone is so fugging evil. But vengeance is for the Lord.

>>755343

>this is easier said than done

Amen to that.

your own enemy is not the same as God's enemy. read your Bible. ps 139

>>755396

>open season on God's enemies it's okay to hate them

I hope you don't mean this^

>>755425

It is righteous to hate who and what God hates.

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. - Ecclesiastes 3:8

Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. - Psalm 139:21-22

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. - Psalm 45:7

I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar. I hate all who deal crookedly; I will have nothing to do with them. - Psalm 101:3

All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters. - Hosea 9:15

Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. - Amos 5:15

>>755782

>this part of the Bible offends my leftist feelings therefore it's not true

>>755200 (OP)

>Are we supposed to love Jews our enemy the way we love God?

We are supposed to feel bad for their misery. They are bad people and even though they harm us, imagine the harm they do to themselves and to their own souls.

But loving your enemy shouldn't stop you from doing your duty. If he threatens you or your loved ones it's okay to protect yourself/your family.

>>755216

>/leftypol/ is being paranoid

>>755325

>No, we are supposed to love Jews as we would love any other people

False. Nowhere does it say anywhere that we are supposed to love everyone equally.

>>755782

if you read your Bible you wouldn't be so unfamiliar with God and his wrath.

>>755210

Not so much the same way we love God, but in the same way God loves us.

Yes it is a stupid idea, but the Bible tells us how to go to heaven, not how to live in luxury. Doing what Jesus tells us to do is hard.

http://www.orthodoxchurchquotes.com/2014/09/04/st-nikolai-velimirovich-bless-my-enemies-o-lord/