More like the murderous western tribal ego versus the equally murderous Islamic tribal ego and their “final??? long anticipated showdown.

John,
First, It would be the Christianity that the Bible describes – Jesus Christ, God incarnate, Third person of the Trinity, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died on the cross and rose again on the third as atonement for our sins. If one will believe He is the Son of the living God, and that He died for his/her sin, repent of his/her sin he/she will be saved from the wages of sin, death…eternal separation from God.

Christian’s, as I described above, have been reconciled to God our Creator through the sacrifice of Christ…we are justified by His righteousness, sancitfied by His Holy Spirit, and will be glorified at our death or upon the return of Christ.

Second, Don’t know what translation you’re using or if it’s your own paraphrase, especially the “indeed, ‘al other’ are thy self.” That is not in the text of any reliable translation. I am not my neighbors and my neighbors are not me.

The quote is from Luke 10:27 (27 And he answered, ” YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.” NASB). Jesus had just given his disciples charge to go and preach the good news of the gospel, and a Scribe (lawyer) asked Jesus as a test what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus asked him what the law said…above is what he replied. Jesus replied to him, v28 …”You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE.”
Here’s what follows:
29 But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

30Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.

31″And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32″Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

33″But a (AK)Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion,

34and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

35″On the next day he took out two [a]denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.’

36″Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”

37And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”

You see, the good news is a message of grace through faith in Christ. The lawyer was contesting that, insinuating that righteous is was by the law, not just the Torah, but all their man-made additions to it. Note verse 29. Jews were forbidden by their law to associate with Samaritans. And what does Jesus do -Jesus challenged him on it by using a parable about a Samaritan. In the end Jesus tells him to “go and do the same.” The “same” what? Be nice to someone? No. Go show mercy.

Jesus again addressing scribes and pharisee, citing Hosea 6:6

Matthew 9:13
13″But go and learn what this means: ‘I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT SACRIFICE,’ for I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” (NASB)
Matt 12:7
7″But if you had known what this means, ‘(A)I DESIRE COMPASSION, AND NOT A SACRIFICE,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.

Third, please spare us the the moral equivalence. This is the problem with post-modern relativism and denying an objective Truth exists. You are at sea without a rudder. True followers of Christ do not espouse ANY dotrine or principle requiring Christians to kill others because they do not believe in Christ or to bring someone or a people under the domination of Christianity. That is foreign to the teachings of Christ.

And please don’t bring up the crusades, you’ll wander into something you know little about other that what you’ve been fed. With that said, some pretty awful things have been done in the name of Christianity, and yes, during the crusades, but Christianity doesn’t have a corner on that market.

Look, John, I’m not trying to be ugly, but have you really ever taken some time to honestly sit down and read the Bible. What you see happening is exactly what the Bible describes will happen. Read Romans 1, Matt 24-25. It’s because of sin – sorry, man is not basically good. All evidence to the contrary. Man is basically evil, dead in sin, selfish to the core. That is why we need a Savior, to make us new creatures in Christ, a new heart and a living spirit. Only the living Christ can change a heart. Religion won’t do it. Tp those who believe, He is our hope. To Christian’s the Apostle John writes:

1 John 3:1-3
1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
3 And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

But, John, Christians also know that we will be hated as well:

John 15:18 Jesus speaking

18″If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

Finally, Jesus Praying – John 17:3
3″This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Much talk of Christianity on these posts.
Which Christianty?
Whose Christianity?
Certain not the radical teaching and great calling of Jesus of Nazareth which can be summed up thus:

Love the Lord thy God with every fibre of ones being, and on that basis love all other beings as thy self, indeed al “other beings” are thy self.

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