Love your enemies

[Blastcat]

I'm looking for Bible verses that support "love thy enemies" and "Kill whoever God doesn't like today."

In the Bible, I think it was in Matthew 5:44 where it says that we should love our enemies, and in the OLD testament, there are very many passages where people kill people on the command of God.

I think there are about a dozen of those direct commandments...

So, the questions for debate is:


"Are Christians being instructed to not hate their enemies, but to hate to the point of killing whoever God considers to be an enemy?"

P.S.

I owe the idea of Christians having to hate God's enemies from Divine Insight in Post 107: Question for Atheists/Naturalist

[Justin108]

1. There were no appointed stone-throwers.

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones.

Since this was practically an impossibility for a city of any size, it is suggested that "all the people " were held to have fulfilled the job when Moses and the 70 (Num 11:16-17) put their hand it, that is, everyone threw a stone by their hands. If they were not available, then the duly appointed officials stood in...

Leave it to a theist to interpret "all the men of the city" to mean anything but "all the men of the city". Did all the men of the city stone the victims? No? Then Deuteronomy 21:21 is lying.

2. Executioners follow precise methods to assure a quick and painless death. There are no such stipulation of clean killing methods in the Bible. Exodus goes in excruciating detail on how to perform a sacrifice. But when it comes to taking a life? "Oh just throw them with stoned until they're dead". There is no mention of "please aim for the head". No mention of "try to make it quick".

Deuteronomy 17:7 "The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. Non-biblical rabbinic literature tells us the method was for the criminal to be struck off a 2nd story roof by the witness with a large rock. Then the elders threw the stone pile on the corpse. GOD orders what to do, people make up the methodology.

So it was up to human mercy that stoning became somewhat less barbaric? Good thing the Jews weren't all as sick and twisted as God.