At “Jesus and Hyperbole,” the professor writes: Yes, repeatedly throughout history God has condemned and destroyed nations. You owe society nothing beyond responding to evil with good. God’s job is vengeance. Ours is doing good. The fundamental fault with lex talionis is that it tends to assign to us what …
In “Review: Do we “Resist the devil” or “Resist not evil”?” I opened the series with a discussion on Pseudonymous Commenter Kansas’s take on Jesus’ teaching on violence in the Sermon on the Mount: Pseudonymous Commenter Kansas’s post is based in large part on the 21-page paper “A Methodology For …
This is a review of Pseudonymous Commenter Kansas’s latest “Do we “Resist the devil” or “Resist not evil”?” Therein he discusses whether or not the Bible teaches nonresistance. Coincidentally, over the last couple of weeks Pseudonymous Commenter Kansas and I had both been musing over this topic. We briefly shared some …