Bismillah: Assalamo Alikum.
I have been repeating the same but I will again. Your enemy (Trinitarians) are saying the same thing and dont mind killing you either. that's why Jesus is saying to "love your enemy".
I am sorry, but Trinitarians, Atheists, Agnostic, Christians, Jews, etc are NOT OUR ENEMIES, who gives you this idea? I said it plainly that any of the above mentioned groups are to be treated justly and kindly as long as they are peaceful and loving people. So there is no enmity at all just because they are belongs to different faiths and ideologies.
In Old Testament time, God directly ordered His people destroy His enemies. God knows exactly what is going on; He knows who is truly evil. but remember this: we humans are so selfish we always think we are the righteouse ones and our enemy is always wrong and evil. that's why Jesus is not appoving judging others by killing your enemy. It is so simple, people.
I don’t get it. Don’t you believe that Jesus pbuh is God? Don’t you believe that he was there during OT time? So you mean to say that OT time God (Jesus) believed in destroying the enemy by killing them, and later on he changed his mind?
I already repsonded this one to you too. Are you reading all responses to you? I will repeat again. Of course I will do everything to defend innocent ones if I see it in front of me. But listen carefully; I will do it without killing anyone, it may cost my life also but I will not kill anyone to defend anyone including me and my family. It is so simple locgic.
Ok got your point.
"love your enemy" is very simple to understand but hard to practice. that's why I am saying Jesus is the only one who have such deep love. No other religions teach like Jesus. That's why I am so proud to be His follower and I will practice it.
I respect your beliefs, but in my opinion, “love your enemy” teaching is not just difficult, but it is impossible to be practiced. You see one of the great thinkers of his time named Michael Hart wrote a book called “The 100, a ranking of the most influential persons in history” in his book, he dedicated one chapter to Jesus pbuh as one of those great persons in history, and he commented on his teaching, specifically on “love your enemy”, look what he said:
Does this mean that Jesus had no original ethical ideas? Not at all! A highly distinctive viewpoint is presented in Matthew 5:43-44:Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shall love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you. Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.And a few lines earlier: "...resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also."Now, these ideas—which were not a part of the Judaism of Jesus' day, nor of most other religions—are surely among the most remarkable and original ethical ideas ever presented. If they were widely followed, I would have had no hesitation in placing Jesus first in this book.But the truth is that they are not widely followed. In fact, they are not even generally accepted. Most Christians consider the injunction to "Love your enemy" as—at most—an ideal which might be realized in some perfect world, but one which is not a reasonable guide to conduct in the actual world we live in. We do not normally practice it, do not expect others to practice it, and do not teach our children to practice it. Jesus' most distinctive teaching, therefore, remains an intriguing but basically untried suggestion.
The above is just for your reference, you don’t have to change your mind about something you strongly believe in. Salamammuslim
