User:Daask/sandbox/Love of enemies

love of enemies meaning civility towards mean-spirited individuals.

Commentators disagree on whether Jesus' command to love enemies should be seen as a markedly new revelation or a continuation of the Old Testament ethics.

the ethical command of kindness is rooted in the hope of conversion of the adversary

Paul's curses in 1 Corinthians 16:22 and 2 Timothy 4:14 potentially contradicts Jesus teaching on loving enemies and not cursing

love of enemies as universal benevolence, without significantly having significant bearing on ethics or prohibiting us from hating enemies as well.

Tertullian argued that love of friends is common to all people, but love of enemies is a virtue particular to Christians.

Jonathan Edwards recognized the goodness and good theology of non-Christians

Jonathan Edwards believes Greek and Roman moralists had already recognized that we should love enemies

love of enemies is the sign of inward regeneration, and is impossible without this

tax collectors for Rome in Jesus' day were regarded as thieves