Jesus said, \u2018You have heard that it was said, \u201cEye for eye, and tooth for tooth.\u201d But I tell you\u2026 If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew 5:38\u201339 NIV) Though the \u2018eye for an eye\u2019 statement sounds harsh to us, it was actually an enormous step forward in the ancient legal world, where powerful people could kill you for the slightest injury. This law limited retribution by teaching proportional justice. <\/p>\n
But it still leaves us with a problem. Instinct says if someone hurts you, you hurt them back\u2014and the pain you experience always seems worse than the pain you cause the other person. In an experiment, a group of subjects was paired up, and each person received pressure against their finger. Then they were told to exert the same amount of pressure on the other person\u2019s finger. When it was their turn, they always inflicted more pain than they received. Always. The result is an eye \u2018plus-a-little-something-extra\u2019 for an eye. <\/p>\n
You say, \u2018But this person hurt me and they should pay for it.\u2019 How much should they pay? God alone is capable of answering that question fairly! And His Word says: \u2018Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God\u2019s wrath, for it is written: \u201cIt is Mine to avenge; I will repay,\u201d says the Lord. On the contrary: \u201cIf your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.\u201d Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.\u2019<\/i> (Romans 12:19\u201321 NIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jesus said, \u2018You have heard that it was said, \u201cEye for eye, and tooth for tooth.\u201d But I tell you\u2026 If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also.\u2019 (Matthew 5:38\u201339 NIV) Though the \u2018eye for an eye\u2019 statement sounds harsh to us, it was actually an enormous step […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}