How did Eye for an Eye, become Love thine enemy?
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"eye for an eye" did not actually BECOME "love your enemy"  \nBOTH have a proper application.  But in Matthew 5 (Sermon on the Mount) Jesus DID call his followers that to apply the second rather than the first in their personal lives\n\nTo begin with, Jesus did not say he was "amending" the Law.  He said he came to FUFLILL it, and that not the smallest letter or least stroke of a pen would pass away until all was fulfilled"  \n\nTHEN, immediately after that, Jesus explains how the Law is to be APPLIED.   He does so by giving a series of examples.  In each case he contrasts how HE calls his disciples to live their lives with how others were saying the Law should be applied.  It is important that he does NOT say, "the Law says... but I say".  Rather he says,  "you have heard it said... but I say".  And several of the "sayings" are clearly NOT from the Law.\n\nThus Jesus is NOT saying that when the Law says things like "an eye for an eye" there is NO proper application of them. \nActually, the quotes he gives that DO echo the Law (several do not!) have to do with the judicial system, that is, what society ought to require of people, punish, etc.   Jesus is not taking issue with that.  But he is countering what people were doing with it --applying it to their PERSONAL lives as a way to JUSTIFY themselves and limit their responsibility.\n\nSo, for instance, on the law against adultery, Jesus "extends" it to apply to lusting after a woman.  Is he suggesting that the courts should punish people's THOUGHTS?  No, of course not.  He is not talking about the courts at all!  Rather, he is telling his disciples that they are not 'keeping the commandments' just be avoiding the overt act of adultery.  GOD looks at the heart.\n\nIt's the same with other matters.  Jesus addresses "oath formulas" since teachers of the Law were saying that one formula was binding, another was not.  This was a way by which people could excuse their not keeping their word or telling the truth.   Jesus critiques this and calls people to basic trustworthiness and HONESTY -- "Let your 'Yes' be 'Yes' and your 'No' be 'No'."    He is not saying "End the taking of oaths in court" (again, he is NOT addressing the judicial system).  In fact, it appears that Jesus himself submit to being put under oath at his own trial (responding to "I adjure you by the living God" which is a way of putting one under oath).\n\nIn the same way, Jesus calls his disciples in their personal lives and dealings with people NOT to use the "eye for an eye" as an excuse.  (And, indirectly, it CAN have a legal application, such as deciding NOT to sue someone, but rather to be wronged [as Paul says in 1 Cor 5].)\n\nOne other piece of evidence that Jesus was NOT calling for throwing out the Law is that much of his language in this Sermon and elsewhere echoes that of the Prophets, who similarly call God's people to not look for 'loopholes' in the Law to try to excuse their own behavior, esp. their abuse and lack of concern for the poor and disadvantaged among them  (key examples - Isaiah 1, Jeremiah 7, Amos 6).
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No only lust at first sight.\n\nUsually anyone who falls in love with you at first sight ends up having MAJOR emotional problems.
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Excuse me, but love can be in the eye of the beholder. For example, "Love at first sight."
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boy and girl from opposing families fall in love. family feud breaks out and Juliets cousin tybalt dies. Romeo is forced further away from Juliet as he hides from the law. in their wish to see each other Juliet plans to fake death so involves the friar. She taked a medic which simulates the symptoms of death. unfortunately poor Romeo does not recieve the message of her plan and upon see her 'dead' body attempts death. He succeeds in drinking poison and dies at her grave. Upon his death she wakes. Realising the circumstances she tragically stabs herself and they are both dead but together forever. Therefore utimately acheiving their aim. 'Star crossed lovers' that shall meet in the 'star crossed' skys i.e. heaven.
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Its true..Love is painful...But it is the most powerful emotion God has given to mankind and with every gr8 thing comes a drawback too.. just like with a rose comes the painful spikes. Same way with Love comes the pain..u have gotto accept the both sides baby..U cant opt for just one coz with the heads also comes the tail(in a coin)..;)
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Jesus said "Love your enemy"\nNot "Kill your enemy".\n\nYou will make more enemies with hate.\nYou will eliminate more enemies by winning them over with love.
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And it came to pass that the armies of the deadliness had grown and numbered ten and ten thousand. They bowed in the eastern sands; they became serpents upon all the earth. They caused all the lush fields to bring forth rotted stalks and the entirety of plentiful trees gave forth spoiled fruits.\nThey were the great serpent army; they caused nations to become as wasted as they spread their seed upon all lands. The white marbled city had become a haven for those that pledged hatred upon all the righteous. They sent forth a fiery beacon of light for the destruction of the new city.
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if you mean how you can get rid of your enemies?\nof course by BEFRIENDING them
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an EYE FO AN fu*#*ing EYE!!!!\n\nBEAT THEM SENSELESS!!!!
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Love and Hate are the same coin\nLove can turn to hate very easely\nGiven time & patience,love can\nconquer hate,but it takes work
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eyes r the keys to the heart of a person.so look into the eyes of ur beloved and enter the heart,closer than nething.be there for as much as u want.
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People in love will follow someone even if ordered to jump out of a plane without a parachute.  Love is blind.\nSometimes people in love don't see the truth nor evil for what it is.\nEven when over 2,800 of our own people are sent to their deaths for nothing.
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Yes, Jesus said love your enemy because if you only love those that you care for, where is the reward in that? It's impossible to love your enemy on your own, only through God's grace one is able to love their enemy. Since humans have a fallen nature due to original sin, it is in human nature to love only those that love them back, BUT it's in God's will to love those that hate you just as Jesus Christ loves His enemies. We must be more like Jesus Christ. Jesus said, be perfect just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
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Already answered on Yahoo before here: http://ask.yahoo.com/20000713.html\n\nAnd if I remember correctly love was a corruption of "l'oeuf" or egg (as in goose-egg).
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Why do fools fall in love.
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Love is blind, deaf and dumb to reason... so, no way can corrective surgery apply, I'm an expert on it, trust me... every body is a sufferer and everybody is scarred, even vaccination of endless relationships across a lifetime never dents the surface of infection... sigh... love is wonderfully ignorant in its beginnings, and marvellously cynical in hindsight... but is it ever fully sighted... nope, the haze of hope will always cloud our judgement. \n\nSavour the memories of beginnings and temper the thoughts of painful endings... who knows, there could be a best seller in there one day ;-)
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Luther. This antisemitic dogma was then used by Hitler to justify his atrocities.\n\n"For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.'"