Autymn D. C. wrote:
> On May 8, 10:10 pm, monkfish <monkfish@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> arah wrote:
>> > Sorry, that is not a myth, that was the true statement by Esau or
>> > Jesus
>>
>> Thanks, actually that is my point.
>>
>> Some atheists here are adamant that
>> Christianity is nothing but borrowed myths.
>> So, I am asking them to find the myth
>> where we are told to love even our enemies.
>> They couldn't, so far.
> The Historical Jesus in Context
> http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/i8265.html
>
>>Both the Jesus of the Gospels and the Rabbis of Mishnah and Talmud
follow
>>the approach of what Basser terms “literal unacceptable: stretch
apt”;
>>this reshaping of a verse’s words or structure typically served to
>>alleviate any hard****p created by following the more literal sense.
>>Exemplifying this process in the Gospels are the “Antitheses” of
Matthew 5
>>that follow the formulaic structure, “You have heard that it was said
. .
>>. But I tell you. . . .” While the interpretation of Matthew 5:44,
“But I
>>tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,” is
>>novel (although Proverbs does insist “Do not rejoice when your enemies
>>fall” [24:17] and “If your enemies are hungry, give them bread to
eat; if
>>they are thirsty, give them water to drink” [25:21]), the means by
which
>>the Gospel derives this interpretation are not: as Basser observes, the
>>word “neighbor” can be stretched to include “enemy” because the
terms in
>>Hebrew share the same consonants; only the pronunciation differs. To
this
>>we also might add that Epictetus voiced a similar point: “[The Cynic]
must
>>be flogged like an ass, and while he is being flogged he must love the
man
>>who flogs him, as though he were the father or brother of them all”
>>(Discourses 3).<
I see similar ideas by real people
but no myths.
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