Love your enemy is not written to cancel out your discernment. It's not there to manipulate us into hugging and to submitting to horrible people. Don't judge is not written to silence the moral and upright people. The Bible is not written to smooth over and make Narcissists and Manipulators leaders of the community. The only way to avoid Reptilian Logic is to know what you are reading in the Bible.
Matthew 5:43-44 You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbour, and hate your enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
The translation for the Greek word love in this verse is to show affection for the dead. The best way to understand verse 44 is to retranslated it from the Greek.
But I say unto you, entertain your opposition. Bless the things that curse you,
Agapaō is not agapē, philadelphia, philandros, philanthrōpia, philargyria, philautos, phileō, philēdonos, philotheos, you get the picture. To much can be read into love your enemy.
To bless those that cursed us is to a call to prosper those who called demons to attack us.
do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
Doing good to those that hate us is to carry on with being honest a work towards their recovery that detest you. We are to pray for those who are hostile, insult us and threaten us.
To judge or not to judge
Matthew 7:1-2 Judge not, that you be not Judged For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.
The question is, how many meanings does judge have? How many Hebrew words was translated to the word judge? Let's retranslate the Greek.
Do not pronounce your opinion, that you be not summoned to trial. For with what punishment you decreed, you will be summoned to trial. With what standard of judgment you used, it will be measured back in return.
Now let us compare Matthew 7:1-2 with 1 Corinthians 14:29 - "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge."
The question is, are we to judge, or let others judge for us? Once again, let us retranslate the Greek.
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other discern."
Prophecy is written in the Old Testament and comes to us today. We are to judge, to discern the Prophets with those in the Old Testament. We are not to punish the Prophets, we are to use discernment. What is interesting is other verses in this chapter.
1 Corinthians 14:30-33 If anything be revealed to another that's sitting by, let the first hold his peace. For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For Elohiym is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Did you catch that? You have a speaker reading the scriptures. He then is saying his discernment on the scriptures. Then the Holy Spirit moves upon someone who is sitting and hearing the speaker. The speaker is to give the listener time to say what was revealed to him.
What is spirits of the prophets being subject to the prophets? Some people have the spirit of Doubting Thomas. Others have the Spirit of the Sons of Thunder. Being like the Sons of Thunder, that character is subject to me. I learn from James and John. What Yahusha said to them, it's like Yahusha is saying it to me. Elisha had a double portion of the Spirit of Elijah. Yahusha said that John the Baptist is Elijah. Now we have three that have the Spirit of Elijah. The question is, what Elijah is one of the two witnesses?
One last point, we are not to be subject to spirits. Spirits are to be subject to us as humans. The question is, are we fit enough to have spirits in submission to us? To do so we must have good judgement.
Yahusha cast the wicked spirits into a heard of pigs, not into the Abyss. I believe He did that because if He cast them into the Abyss, That would be punishment. Coming to Earth to punish wasn't His mission at the first coming. Being the Lamb of Elohiym for Sacrifice was His Mission. He came to take the punishment for us.
