Phasmid
Mr Invisible
Not letting the ******** get the best of you.
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Loving Your Enemies
- Thread starter Lightkeeper
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Not letting the ******** get the best of you.
Loving your enemies is like trying to understand why they act they way they do. It doesn't mean you have to support what they do, particularly if it is murder, rape or whatever. It also doesn't mean you don't want the person to be punished for his/her actions. It just means that you pray for their spirits, hope that they repent of their crimes.
I think that's the whole point in loving them. That in showing love to your enemies they become no longer your enemies. After all if everyone loved their enemies then enemies would no longer exist. I imagine many battles and wars have been prevented or stopped due to acts of compassion by one side or the other.
Has anyone ever heard the term, kill them with kindness?
Heneni
Miss Independent
If god tells us to love our enemies, it must be because he is doing the same.
God did not destroy satan because he must have understood him. It's like ChristeneS said. When you try to understand why they are seeing you as an enemy you can demonstrate love to them.
Satan, wanted a war, and he got it. God did not support him in his evil, but god did not stand back and let him take over his kingdom. Satan was the one thrown out. But he is still alive. Must be because god had mercy on him.