Love of Neighbor (Crime and Punishment) Q&A (Remastered)
CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · R.J. Rushdoony
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Show Notes
This teaching confronts one of the most abused phrases in Scripture—“love your neighbor as yourself”—and restores its biblical meaning by grounding love firmly in God’s law, not emotion, socialism, or sentimental tolerance of evil. Drawing from Romans 13, Leviticus 19, the teachings of Christ, and the Good Samaritan, it argues that biblical love is juridical and covenantal: to love one’s neighbor is to keep the second table of the Law by respecting life, property, home, reputation, and liberty in thought, word, and deed, even toward enemies. Far from requiring communism, emotionalism, or pacifism, true love requires justice, lawful mercy, and resistance to tyranny when obedience to the state violates obedience to God. Only those who love God—by obeying His law—can truly love themselves and their neighbors, and this biblical doctrine of love stands as the historic foundation of true civil liberty and Christian freedom.
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