Thursday 22 September 2016

Question for our Christians regarding a statement made by your Jesus 

"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
(Matthew 5:43)


where in the OT does it say love your neighbour and hate your enemy?
Please show us the reference if you can.... Unless your Jesus was quoting from a completely different Torah? 



He quoted from the talmud


John Gill's reference was quite applicable:

Hate your enemy from talmud 

"However, if someone disgraced or shamed a Talmid Hakham publicly, he is not allowed to forgive [the violation of] his honor and, if he did forgive, he is punished, as this is a disgrace of the Torah. Rather, he should seek vengeance and enmity like a snake until [the shamer] requests his forgiveness - then he should forgive him." 
(Maimonides, Hilchos Talmud Torah c.7 sect. 13)



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Love your Neighbour from talmud 


On another occasion it happened that a certain heathen came before Shammai and said to him, 'Make me a proselyte, on condition that you teach me the whole Torah while I stand on one foot.' Thereupon he repulsed him with the builder's cubit which was in his hand.12  When he went before Hillel, he said to him, 'What is hateful to you, do not to your neighbour:13  that is the whole Torah, while the rest is the commentary thereof; go and learn it.'
(Babylonian Talmud, Shabbos 31a)

The golden Rule; cf. Lev. XIX, 18: but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.- V. Hertz, Leviticus, pp. 22 o

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NT commentary confirms the later part is rabbinical inference 
And we find it in the talmud (oral law)



Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
(c) Love or Charity, 43–48.

43. Thou shalt love thy neighbour] Leviticus 19:18, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” The second clause does not occur in Levit., but was a Rabbinical inference. Enemies, all who are outside the chosen race, the etymological force of the Greek word. Heathen writers bear testimony to this unsocial characteristic of the Jews. Juvenal says it was their rule—

“Non monstrare vias eadem nisi sacra colenti,

Quaesitum ad fontem solos deducere verpos.”—Sat. xiv. 104.



Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ye have heard that it hath been said,.... By, or to them of old time. This law has been delivered to them,thou shalt love thy neighbour, with this appendage to it, or false gloss upon it,

and hate thine enemy; for the first of these only is the law of Moses, Leviticus 19:18, the other is the addition, or wrong interpretation of the Scribes and Pharisees: wherefore the Jew (o) has no reason to charge Christ, or the Evangelist, with a false testimony, as he does, because the latter is no where written in the law, nor in the prophets: nor does Christ say it is; he only observes, that it had been traditionally handed down to them from the ancients, by the masters of the traditions of the elders, that the law of loving the neighbour was so to be understood as to allow, and even enjoin, hatred of enemies: in proof of which, take the following instances (p).

Above we read Jesus was aware of the oral law and made a change to it...

Thus Jesus abrogated the oral law



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