Cedric,
I see what IXPninja was saying about neighbor. However he also said,"it was Yeshua who added "and thy neighbor as thyself"". When Yeshua was actually quoting Moses.
I disagree about the word having different meaning. There were other neighboring nations, that were not Israelites, with whom the Israelites showed tolerance and were peaceful with.
Yeshua, like Moshe, was for His people, the Israelites. He said that His teachings were for His people and he also refered to the foreign woman as a dog, when she asked for His help.
He did help the woman, after He sighted that she had some wisemind.
Mark 7:26-29
"The woman was a Greek, a Syrophenician by nation; and she besought him that he would cast forth the devil out of her daughter.
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
And she answered and said unto him, Yes, Lord: yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter."
The scripture shows that Yeshua came to teach and do works for His people. And there are other scriptures that show the same.
The spirit of Moshe's and Yeshua's teachings are the same. Moshe was teaching to a hard hearted people and so His teachings reflect that. Same with Yeshua when He is dealing with the hard-heartedness of people.
Matthew 19:7-8
"They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so"
Ok, I need to take sometime my next post on this topic. Address those things I said I would.
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