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Everyone remembered what Jesus had to say about how to treat others.
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Whatever you would like people to do for you, do that for them. That sums up the Law and the Prophets.
This
saying tends to put in perspective the previous saying about the law not being destroyed. The Golden Rule shows that, for Jesus, it is the law of love that
counts.
Paul sheds light on the idea that the Golden Rule is at the core of the Law (and the Prophets).
Another point: When Jesus talks about adultery, he is quoted as saying that a man has a right to divorce an unfaithful wife. But Jesus also urges us to forgive others. How often? Seventy times seven. Though Peter was asking about forgiving another man, it is unimaginable that Jesus was excluding women in his response.
Peter was guessing "seven," as that is a number used to express completion in Scripture, but in his reply, Jesus obviously does not mean to be taken ultra-literally at exactly 490. He is speaking hyperbolically to mean that we are to forgive as many times as we are sinned against. There is no limit on Christian forbearance and love. A tall order. But that is the way we should go.
So even if the aggrieved husband feels compelled to divorce Runaround Sue, he must still in his heart forgive her and request God's mercy on her. The same applies to the woman who divorces an unfaithful husband; this possibility isn't mentioned in the gospels because Jewish women of that time had no right of divorce. But clearly the teachings that apply to men are there for women also.
If you are living side by side with someone every day, friction may well develop. That's when the test comes. Can you treat that annoying person the way you would like to be treated? Perhaps not, but it's worth a try.
Paul sheds light on the idea that the Golden Rule is at the core of the Law (and the Prophets).
Owe no one anything, but love one another. For he that loves another has fulfilled the Law.Paul explains to the Galatian congregation,
For the sayings, You must not commit adultery, You must not murder, You must not steal, You must not bear false witness, You must not covet -- and ... any other rule -- is summarized in this saying: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Love works no ill to his neighbor. Thus love is the fulfilling of the law.
For I through the Law am dead to the Law, that I might live toward God.Further, he said,
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
But before faith came, we [Jews] were kept under the Law, shut off from the faith which would afterwards be revealed.As we are told by Peter, "love covers a great many sins."
Hence, the Law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
But after that faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Another point: When Jesus talks about adultery, he is quoted as saying that a man has a right to divorce an unfaithful wife. But Jesus also urges us to forgive others. How often? Seventy times seven. Though Peter was asking about forgiving another man, it is unimaginable that Jesus was excluding women in his response.
Peter was guessing "seven," as that is a number used to express completion in Scripture, but in his reply, Jesus obviously does not mean to be taken ultra-literally at exactly 490. He is speaking hyperbolically to mean that we are to forgive as many times as we are sinned against. There is no limit on Christian forbearance and love. A tall order. But that is the way we should go.
So even if the aggrieved husband feels compelled to divorce Runaround Sue, he must still in his heart forgive her and request God's mercy on her. The same applies to the woman who divorces an unfaithful husband; this possibility isn't mentioned in the gospels because Jewish women of that time had no right of divorce. But clearly the teachings that apply to men are there for women also.
If you are living side by side with someone every day, friction may well develop. That's when the test comes. Can you treat that annoying person the way you would like to be treated? Perhaps not, but it's worth a try.
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