steven-nemes
Puritan Board Sophomore
I have, for the most part, never been one to enjoy physical altercations, nor have I ever really encouraged anyone to participate in them. I imagine if it came down to it, I probably would not fight a person back if they started one.
In my younger more impressionable days, I took the time to read a good majority of Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You (I never finished, probably a good thing) about nonresistance and nonviolence.
I have, for the most part, always taken Jesus' teaching about "turning the other cheek" to mean that it is not proper to return physical force with physical force; it seems to me that is what all the apostles did, with the exception of the incident in the garden to which Jesus replied, "Those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword."
I don't know what to think lately though. What are your thoughts?
In my younger more impressionable days, I took the time to read a good majority of Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You (I never finished, probably a good thing) about nonresistance and nonviolence.
I have, for the most part, always taken Jesus' teaching about "turning the other cheek" to mean that it is not proper to return physical force with physical force; it seems to me that is what all the apostles did, with the exception of the incident in the garden to which Jesus replied, "Those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword."
I don't know what to think lately though. What are your thoughts?