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Debate:Does the Bible display poor ethics and morals? (view source)
Revision as of 14:33, July 23, 2007
, 14:33, July 23, 2007→No
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==From Eye For An Eye To Turn The Other Cheek==
The contrast between the Old and New Testaments are stark. In the Old Testament the Israelites are told to kill all their enemies, even their wives, children, and animals.
Yet in the New Testament Jesus says pray for your enemies and if they take your shirt let them take your shoes as well.
I the think a more accurate pattern is that God is preaching against violence. He is telling the Israelites during those savage times, an eye for an eye, not a life for an eye. Kill your enemies but do not kill for the sake of killing.
Jesus is furthering this by saying that all violence is wrong. Still a hard concept for us today. How many of us would not defend our families or our country with violence?
Pacifism would not have worked in the savage BC times and so God was taking it one step at a time.