Turning the Other Cheek Is Not About Passivity but Resistance

Failed to add items

Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping basket is already at capacity.

Add to cart failed.

Please try again later

Add to wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Remove from wishlist failed.

Please try again later

Follow podcast failed

Unfollow podcast failed

Turning the Other Cheek Is Not About Passivity but Resistance

Listen for free

View show details

The most abused line in the Sermon on the Mount is the one about turning the other cheek. People treat it like a divine order to become a human doormat, to absorb every insult, every injustice, every advance of evil without lifting a finger. That reading is wrong. It is not what Jesus taught, and it is not how He lived.

Matthew 5:39 does not command passivity. It commands a refusal to play the other man’s game. “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” The Greek word rendered “resist” is antistenai. It means to stand against in the same manner, to answer force with matching force, to mirror the attacker’s method. Jesus is forbidding retaliation in kind, not forbidding resistance itself.

Read More: https://www.blessed.report/p/turning-the-other-cheek-is-not-about

No reviews yet