According to Jesus why should people love their enemies?

Answer 1

it can help u later on if u need that persons help also

Answer

Indifference is the opposite of both hatred and love.

You're not obligated to be nice to your enemies, but you do a disservice to yourself by investing the focus of your emotions on them. The best thing you can do is consign them and their behavior to the past, avoid contact with them, and do not allow your experiences with them to discolor your reactions and dealings with other people.

It's natural to feel anger when you believe someone has wronged you, but long term hostility is unhealthy for you. It keeps your perspective firmly rooted in the past, instead of allowing you to be introspective and coming to terms with the fact that you can't control other people's behavior, but to some extent you can control how it impacts your life. Instead of revenge, take from it a lesson in how to deal with other people and how better to respond to certain situations. It takes time, but at some point both your enemy and their interactions with you becomes a dot that becomes smaller and smaller in your thoughts until it eventually fades away.

Answer 2

Love your enemies means even though you do not like your enemies GOD commands us to love them anyway.

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Answer 3

Jesus answered this question just as he gave the commandment Matthew 5:43-45 "Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine 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, that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

God loves the mankind in it's entirety, the worst imaginable offence committed by one human being against another is negligible when compared to, what would be considered, a minor offence of even the most noble and upright human being against a holy God. Even the most enlightened and Spirit filled believers cannot grasp the full scope and magnitude of their own sin, and how abhorrent it is to God, yet he loves us still. We cannot imagine the continuous flow of curses of lies and of hatred of the wicked sinners that God patiently endures and yet is ready to forgive all, clear them of all guilt that he may save them. Ezekiel 33:11 "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die?!" 2 Peter 3:9 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." In light of that, and if you have truly experienced the love of God, and have come to know the forgiveness of your own sins, loving all human beings, including your enemies, for whom Christ died as he did for you, is an easy thing to do, but for the self-righteous, unconverted and unrepentant it is impossible and even incomprehensible.

When this passing world is done,

When has sunk yon glaring sun,

When we stand with Christ in glory,

Looking o'er life's finished story,

Then, Lord, shall I fully know-

Not till then-how much I owe.

R.M. McChayne

Answer 4

Human beings in their natural state hate God, but God so loved the world (Human beings) that He sent His only Son for our salvation. Because God loved us when we were His enemies, we are to love all people including our enemies.

Answer 5

because that is what god told all of us to do.

Answer 6

Because he does. He is perfect and he wants us to be like him.

Answer 7

get a life you son of a ***** do you want an orange fanta?

why is it that some christian are saying this church not holy e.g Deeper life are saying L.c.c.n are not holy?