Morals

[Rau]

Do you say then that Roman Catholics should go against what God has told them and they should reject the divine commandment to offer no resistance to one who is evil ?
“I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil.” Matthew 5:39 Sermon on the Mount.
Isn’t is somewhat blasphemous to compare the divine teachings of the Sermon on the Mount with the erroneous teaching that the world is flat?
Why isn’t it better to adhere to what Jesus Christ taught about offering no resistance to one who is evil by refusing to fight in war as Jehovah’s Witnesses do? In a war, it always happens that innocent people, women and children suffer and die. IMHO, peace is always better than war.

Sometimes, not taking part in war does not produce peace or the greater good that you assume.

 

[Tomdstone]

Sometimes, not taking part in war does not produce peace or the greater good that you assume.

Gandhi used passive resistance to get rid of British rule in India.

 

[o_mlly]

Anyone care to provide a rebuttal?

"What Christian values? All values today have predated Christianity.

The 10 Commandments? These aren’t law. Only “though shall not kill” predated Christianity.

Golden Rule? It predates Christianity and can be found in the philosophies of ancient, Greece, Babylon, Judea, India, Egypt, and China.

Which special values to Christians provide?

Christians are the original SJW."

The duty to others is a negated “golden rule”—do not do to others what you would not want done to yourself. But, one know it is never too difficult not to do things. Not doing injury to other people is not an especially religious principle; it is, rather, a legal principle

Matthew’s gospel, the teaching gospel of the Catholic Church, confirms what God has already revealed to mankind (Greece, Babylon, Judea, India, Egypt, and China) as true and then instructs us to go beyond the golden rule. We are to be workers of God’s will in the world. Some of the ancient religions taught that withdrawing from the world, emptying oneself of desires was the way to find happiness and tranquility. Christ tells us also to empty ourselves of worldly desires but teaches us to go further – to fill ourselves with His Holy Spirit and rather than withdraw from the world, go and do God’s work in the world.

Matthew teaches that when called, “all” will be required. The true disciple does “all” that Jesus commanded, “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations . . . teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (28:19-20). Jesus ratifies the Law, but reinterprets it to include interiority, the proper inward dispositions. Matthew requires doing what Jesus commanded in the Sermon on the Mount (Chapters 5-7), the divorce legislation (19:1-12), the call to “sell what you own and give the money to the poor” (19:16-22), the call to serve rather than be served (20:24-28), and the call to take up the cross and follow Jesus (16:24-26).

Matthew tells us that professing Jesus is fairly easy; obeying Jesus is unutterably hard, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father in heaven” (7:21). The point is “doing faith, not just mouthing it,” identifies the true disciple. Matthew says to us that those who believe but do not act are not saved. An intellectual faith is insufficient for true discipleship. Knowing Jesus, indeed, even professing Jesus as the Son of God—the demons of Gadarene did as much (8:29), does not qualify one as a disciple.

Matthew parables underscore the importance of doing faith. At the final judgment, true disciples are found to be “at work” in the world. It is the point of the parable of the owner of the house who is to be ready for the coming of the Son of Man (Mat. 24:46). The same point seems to be made in the parable of the ten virgins (Mat. 25:1-13) and is certainly made in the parable of the talents (Mat. 25:14-30).