According to Scripture, who is your neighbor?

[seed_time_harvest]

According to Scripture, who is your neighbor?

Is it someone who lives next door to you, or is it someone else

....Everyone.

Even an Islamic terrorist who wants to chop off my head?

Romans 12:21
King James Version(KJV)

21.)Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

 

[Marcelo]

If I am in Japan (my antipodes) and stumble upon someone who needs help to save their life, that person is my neighbor.

My mother-in-law is also my neighbor because she lives here with us.

 

[wincam]

what utter nonsense and foolishness - fools attempting to understand what they have not and cannot understand or accept that they cannot really help themselves or anyone else since they are lying in the gutter all beaten up by those they accepted as good and as neighbours who are really robbers and thieves - even priests regard themselves and are regarded as good Samaritans - there is only one good Samaritan and hope and pray He just happens to pass your way - wincam

 

[Mec99]

Everyone who posts on this site is our neighbor.

How can you even understand what is taught in the Scriptures while you keep on Worshiping Mary as your God wincam?

 

[Adstar]

Is it someone who lives next door to you, or is it someone else?

Every human being on planet earth...

 

[wincam]

Everyone who posts on this site is our neighbor.

How can you even understand what is taught in the Scriptures while you keep on Worshiping Mary as your God wincam?

here it is exactly as I stated - best way for you to help is to stop trying to help - wincam

 

[EarsToHear]

Luke 10:25-37 (KJV)

25 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

26He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

28And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
30 And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

31And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

32And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.

33But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him,

34And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

35And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

36Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?

37And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

Thanks for an answer According to Scripture. Many folks like to answer according to their imaginations.

 

[p_rehbein]

If I am in Japan (my antipodes) and stumble upon someone who needs help to save their life, that person is my neighbor

[no, that person is someone in need of Christian love and charity.......unless that person also happens to be a blood washed believer, then they are your neighbor]

My mother-in-law is also my neighbor because she lives here with us.a

'[no, your Mother-in-law is part of your family........blood washed or not, she is still part of your family, and deserving of Christian love and charity]

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[Depleted]

Thanks for an answer According to Scripture. Many folks like to answer according to their imaginations.

I'll remember this. Next time you ask about something you read in the bible, I'll just quote what you were asking about. That makes it easy. Thanks for the headsup.

 

[EarsToHear]

I'll remember this. Next time you ask about something you read in the bible, I'll just quote what you were asking about. That makes it easy. Thanks for the headsup.

Your answer is right on the money; however, for the benefit of those who wish to document answers, it's a good idea to list your source, IMHO.

 

[wincam]

its is all these do gooders that have and do cause much of the hurt and harm by failing to accept that they are themselves already in the gutter with their head caved in imagining that they can do good like contributing to their own charity instead of the most needful charity or the lies they prefer to the truth - do gooders and know betters have done and do most of the harm so why not sleep 24hrs a day instead as was wisely suggested - anyone took the good test yet - it is available on the internet - wincam

 

[reneweddaybyday]

Well, it's a good thing a "do gooder" reached out to you when you were "in the gutter with [your] head caved in" to teach you "the most needful charity" --- the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

[Angela53510]

It is everyone within reach. That means more than our English word. Spanish, like Greek also has a much broader use of the word than merely the person who lives next door.

This word is first found in Lev. 19:18, which is what Jesus is quoting in his verses.

"You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord." Lev. 19:18

Bauer states that in Greek, πλησίον or plesion is "the one who is near or close by, neighbour, fellow human being."

"For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”" Gal. 5:14

This is Paul's agreement with Jesus, and this is found in Matt 19:19, 23:39; Mark 12:31, 12:33; Luke 10:27. Paul also quotes this in Romans 13:9 and James in James 2:8

It is the positive golden rule. The reason for this loving behaviour is said to "fulfill the law of Christ." (Gal. 6:2)

"Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ." Gal. 6:2

"The law of Christ:" the real demand of the law is love, in which all the other commandments are summed up.

So my neighbour is anyone I come into contact with. In our expanded world, yet shrunken by media and the internet, I would have to say that once we become aware of a need, whether next to us, or far away, we need to consider how to best serve God and our neighbour, in ways that were never thought of in the past, when people were so limited in communication and knowledge of things going on in the rest of the world.

 

[wincam]

Well, it's a good thing a "do gooder" reached out to you when you were "in the gutter with [your] head caved in" to teach you "the most needful charity" --- the Lord Jesus Christ.

could not have done not the same one you claim - it is a good thing - wincam

 

[PaulMack]

We also will do good to the Catholics by helping them to escape from the Catholic Church.

You will never see the Truth wincam as long as you keep Worshiping Mary as your God. Its you who are in the gutter all broken and beaten up by the Catholic Church.

Your eyes have been blinded by God because of your Worshiping of Mary as your God.

 

[wincam]

We also will do good to the Catholics by helping them to escape from the Catholic Church.

You will never see the Truth wincam as long as you keep Worshiping Mary as your God. Its you who are in the gutter all broken and beaten up by the Catholic Church.

Your eyes have been blinded by God because of your Worshiping of Mary as your God.

it is your eyes that have been blinded - Catholics do not worship Mary - who told you this - it certainly was not the HS or does the HS not inspire and guide Catholics and especially not the Pope - wincam

 

[MikeHenderson]

Lets us reason wincam.

A Catholic on their knees in front of a statue of Mary. Praying the "Hail Mary' over and over again for hours on end. But yet you see nothing wrong with that?

Jesus taught us how to pray. In His prayer He taught us to Pray to the Father. Nowhere in the Lord's Prayer do we see Jesus teaching us to Pray to Mary!

That which you Pray to wincam IS your God. Catholics Praying the "Hail Mary" to Mary is making Mary their God wincam.

Your eyes have been blinded by Satan into believing what he wants you to believe. Therefore if Satan has the power to blind you eyes, then you do not have the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit which means you are not a True Child of God like we are.

Repent wincam, reject Mary, throw Mary away. Worship and serve God only before its too late and you end up in the Lake of Fire for Worshiping Mary as your God.

 

[wincam]

Lets us reason wincam.

A Catholic on their knees in front of a statue of Mary. Praying the "Hail Mary' over and over again for hours on end. But yet you see nothing wrong with that?

Jesus taught us how to pray. In His prayer He taught us to Pray to the Father. Nowhere in the Lord's Prayer do we see Jesus teaching us to Pray to Mary!

That which you Pray to wincam IS your God. Catholics Praying the "Hail Mary" to Mary is making Mary their God wincam.

Your eyes have been blinded by Satan into believing what he wants you to believe. Therefore if Satan has the power to blind you eyes, then you do not have the Indwelling of the Holy Spirit which means you are not a True Child of God like we are.

Repent wincam, reject Mary, throw Mary away. Worship and serve God only before its too late and you end up in the Lake of Fire for Worshiping Mary as your God.

your problem is your problem - Catholics do not have the same problem/s you have believing and/or accepting just what you wish or like or think you can rightly interpret as inspired by the HS and in blasphemy giving the HS an unreliable and confusiongly divisive disruptive contradicting reputation - the Bible teaches when you pray say "Our Father" direct not via - wincam

 

[Willie-T]

A friend of mine wrote this about the question:
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One of the striking things about religions, Christianity in particular, is the number of manifestations that they take. The splits, splinters, and sects number in the tens of thousands. Each one has a different understanding as to what constitutes the center or heart of the Christian faith. All of this is well known and does not have to be documented. The Judaism of Jesus’ day was only slightly different. There were various groups, and groups within groups, that held to different understandings as to what comprised knowing and doing God’s will. Just as Christianity is not a monolith, neither is Judaism. Therefore, when a scribe comes to Jesus and desires to get his opinion on what constitutes the greatest commandment, we need not see him coming with guile. The story is found in all three Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:28-34, Matthew 22:34-40 and Luke 10:25-37). We shall use Luke’s text as the basis for this discussion.

In Luke, Jesus answers the question, “Who is my neighbor?”, with a parable, a mashal or a riddle. It is meant to puzzle the hearer. The Samaritan is an unlikely hero. It would be like saying a TV preacher and a priest walked by a wounded Christian, but an Islamic terrorist stopped to aid him. This parable has shock value, or it should. The problem is that it is so familiar and we think we know what it means!

It is important to know that for Jews of Jesus’ day, obeying God’s commandments did not earn salvation. Obedience was the rightful due of the (male) Jew who had taken upon himself the yoke of the Torah, and who participated in the covenant community. Obedience was not the way to heaven, but the way by which the witness of God’s work among the Jewish people took form.

So we should not be surprised that some sought to discern what might be the key commandments to keep, after all, no one chooses to strain at gnats while swallowing camels. Jesus’ response has four connecting parts, all of which are essential, 1) the confession of Faith (the Shema), 2) the command to love God and 3) the command to love our neighbor. The fourth part is, as we shall see, the radical part.

What we have here is a balanced ethical spirituality, that is, the recognition that spirituality is to be lived out in all relationships. Jesus’ recognition of these two parts, spirituality, or a relationship with God, and human ethics, or our relationships with others, are one and the same thing. How we behave toward ‘others’ is an indication of how we behave toward God and vice versa.
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He wrote a lot more, but I thought those last two sentences posted here were really worth thinking about.