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That's a fair point because politicians on all sides of the spectrum have shown that they cannot be absolutely trusted. After all, they are just as human as the rest of us are. Correct?
It EXPLICITLY lays it out in one of the books (or a footnote). This was included solely to fulfill the prophesy.
I have heard that before but without any citation at all.
Perhaps "citations" are usually false, I dunno, but citations without the scare quotes say where the information came from. Apart from that, believing everything and everyone is false and misleading is a difficult pov. Sorry, bud.
Wikipedia has, at least what seems to be, a good explanation. I will admit that most sources for the claim come from Biblical scholars -- and it does appear the "mile" component may have been a local Roman version of the law. And, as the article states, the mere fact that the word "mile" is used refers to it being a reference to a Roman requirement.
Yes, sorry for you.
I did not misquote - even your weird spacing was kept.
Did I misrepresent your point? It wasn't on purpose; let me know where I got you wrong.
Well the Organians would take him at his word.
Kirk Cameron: Biblical command to 'turn the other cheek' doesn't mean Christians should 'tolerate tyranny'
Kirk Cameron has some thoughts on what it really means to turn the other cheekwww.christianpost.com
Kirk Cameron has some thoughts on what it really means to "turn the other cheek."
The actor said intolerance, at least when it comes to evil and tyranny, is, in fact, a “very essential Christian virtue,” one which, he added, America’s founding fathers espoused.
In a Feb. 21 appearance on the “Timcast IRL” podcast with Tim Pool, Cameron touched upon a number of topics, including his fight against “religious viewpoint discrimination” in public libraries and Noah Webster’s Christian influence on education.
But it was in response to Pool’s apparent reference to a Christian Post story earlier this month about his comments on conservative Christians playing a role in America's decline by being “tolerant and accepting” that led to a lively conversation between Pool and Cameron.
Crediting a 2023 speech by entrepreneur Patrick Bet David for his comments, Pool summarized David's speech as essentially saying, “Christians in this country are good people who keep saying OK to these people, being tolerant, allowing them to live the way they want to live.
"But what happens is they push more into the institutions, they introduce dangerous, bad ideas, they start targeting kids, and now we're here where we are today."
Cameron responded by saying “turn the other cheek” and “love your neighbor” were never intended to allow for the tolerance of evil.
“… I see so many who are just tolerating evil and that’s not loving your neighbor,” he said. “At the end of the day, the two great Commandments of Christianity are to love God with all of your heart, mind, soul and strength, and the second is like it, to love your neighbor as yourself.
“If you 'tolerate' the kinds of things that bring misery to your neighbors and ultimately strip them of their liberties, you're not loving them.”
As an example, he cited Just War Theory, followed by most Christians for over a thousand years, which states that if you believe your enemy is preparing to attack, you are justified in defending your own people by attacking first.
Cameron said the Constitution is another means of mitigating against overreach by tyrants.
“We don't tolerate tyranny, either from the outside or the inside, and that is a very essential Christian virtue, is to not tolerate that type of thing,” he added.
