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The first passage does not give license to harbor criminals. That is a crime. The second is about religious persecution. Not being a [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse].
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V5, from my translation (Kehot publications)
"So a man who is righteous and practices justice and righteousness."
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It is in present tense, what one has done before is done but the whole idea is that we reform ourselves.
Take your time, read and recite out loud.
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"Where does jesus tell us to allow people to break the law and steal from us?"
Jesus is usually capitalized. My understanding is that stealing is breaking the law. I gave the passages where Jesus said to not only allow the cloak thief to steal but throw in a shirt to boot. Imo, the given passages answer that question directly, plain reading.
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Yes most probably, but but consider something from Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory.
"Do good without reason, then there are no traps. you don`t need your ego`s approval to do something good."
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You cited Matthew 5:40: "If anyone wants to sue you and take away your tunic, let him have your cloak also."
This doesn't look like stealing to me, but making a claim whithin legality to take someone else's tunic. It looks like that at that time there were people with such a status, that they could legally make such claims toward the people of a lower class.
The next verse: "And whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two", concerns, as I have heard, a privilege of a Roman soldier to force anyone in an occupied land to carry his burden for a distance of a mile. This was as well within legality.
We have also to see that Jesus is setting a high standard that very few of us can claim to follow. I believe that the goal of Jesus was that we measure ourself with His standard, and see our sense of self-justice crushed, but not that we use this standard to judge other people that are in difficult situations where we are not ourself, such as the pastor of the church in question.
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Arrears are being made. Three so far. This is so awesome. We have yet to see if Justice will prevail in the end or if the two tiered justice system will continue to expand.
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