-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:40, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:17:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 10 May, Joe Hart wrote: >> >>> ... >>> I really just wish that Christians would adhere to the lessons that >>> they so firmly believe in. But alas, we have a whole lot of people >>> that seem to do well on Sunday and forget about the rest of the week. >>> >>> Is it a turn the other cheek world we live in or is the eye for an eye >>> world? >>> >>> Joe >>> >> The two are not mutually exclusive. The traditional interpretation of >> the "eye for an eye" verse is that the punishment should fit the crime, >> but not exceed it, i.e. "an eye for an eye", not two eyes or a life. >> This was a somewhat radical concept at the time. > > Ahh ... interesting! So the "an eye for an eye" concept is actually > closer to the "turn the other cheek" concept -- a compromise?
Absolutely not a compromise. With that phrase, Israel's Eeeeeevil jealous monotheistic deity (well, the priests who wrote it, since There Is No God) changed the bedrock of jurisprudence from *vengeance* to *reciprocity*. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGSr63S9HxQb37XmcRArVgAKDKTj4apTUaEhSRL/ZCHuizXZQUJgCeO0PO BbVnK/pL5dNHPjRuHMiEQOs= =EcVs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
