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CHRISTIANS: does the law to love thy neighbour mean a Christian must be a pacifist/nationalistically impartial?

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(I think I have just made up a new word!)

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Jesus demonstrated you shouldn't always be a pacifist when he smashed up the money changers' market.

  • 1 decade ago

    The bible shows God is impartial and Jesus was impartial when he was on earth. To be a True Christian we MUST be impartial also, but never pacifists

    *** it-1 p. 1192 Impartiality ***

    Jehovah Impartial. Jehovah says that he “treats none with partiality nor accepts a bribe.” (De 10:17; 2Ch 19:7) The apostle Peter said, when God sent him to declare the good news to the uncircumcised Gentile Cornelius: “For a certainty I perceive that God is not partial, but in every nation the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.”—Ac 10:34, 35; Ro 2:10, 11.

    *** it-1 p. 1194 Impartiality ***

    In the Christian Congregation. In the Christian congregation impartiality is a law; the showing of favoritism is a sin. (Jas 2:9) Those guilty of acts of favoritism become “judges rendering wicked decisions.” (Jas 2:1-4) Such persons do not have the wisdom from above, which is free from partial distinctions. (Jas 3:17) Those in responsible positions in the congregation are under the serious obligation the apostle Paul placed on Timothy, an overseer: “I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to keep these things without prejudgment, doing nothing according to a biased leaning.” This would apply especially when judicial hearings are being conducted in the congregation.—1Ti 5:19-21.

  • 1 decade ago

    It means to love by the Spirit of God which is not possible to Jehovah's Witnesses because they deny Him and Christ and so cannot receive Him. They remain yet in the world.

    They like the rest of the world can only strive in their own flesh, which is not acceptable to God.

    We love him, because he first loved us.

    No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

    Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

    Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

    And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

    Anything outside of the Spirit of God is flesh. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

    A new word is to wrench the English language, but you have a made up a new religion.

    See,

    there were no Jehovah's Witnesses before Charles Taze Russell, 1870-1916, and the emergence of the Watchtower Organisation that controls them.

  • 1 decade ago

    No necessarily. Loving one's neighbor as oneself means providing for their needs when necessary and setting appropriate boundaries if their actions hurt you.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Don't harm them but offer to help them.

  • it seems that way especially when you take the whole "give ceaser what is his and give god what is his"... into perspective...

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