Mohammed Μωάμεθ

PhD student in comparative theology; researching Love of Enemies in early Christianity and Islam

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@JasonSF59 @MuiRebekah During 1st c. Palestine, there was a standard for female modesty. Women's (and men's) body parts were taboo. Jesus does not challenge that standard, he merely builds on it, adding a warning (to the men).

Jesus did not teach certain body parts are no longer taboo.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@MuiRebekah It's problematic to take Matthew 5.29-30 out of it's historical context and use it to cudgel male sexuality.

Jesus attacked men's propensity to blame women regarding lust. But at the same time, he took women's modesty for granted when he said that. He did not speak in a vacuum.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@MuiRebekah Jesus said to "gouge eyes out" in a society that had a baseline in female modesty. Back then no woman dressed the way women do today. If Jesus and I strolled down the beach, he would tell me to gouge out my eyes, yes, but he will have some choice words for the women also.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@PhilipDerrida I don't know who that is.

My point, Philip, is that the exact same argument you're making against "evangelical money" was made against the woman who anointed Jesus.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was going to betray him) said, "Why was this ointment not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor?" (Now he said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. . . )

[Ｐｈｉｌｉｐ Ｄｅｒｒｉｄａ @PhilipDerrida]

"Widows and orphans are so first century. Yawn. Paying for the dead janitor's funeral? Boring. Evangelicals need to spice things up a bit. Yeah, let's get real upside down kingdomy with our radical love."

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@abhistoria Problem: when you don't retaliate, you feel as if you've dishonoured yourself.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@KhalilAndani Have you met the Imam and if yes, what was it like?

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@islamicize Don't forget to add a footnote saying the technology used to write and publish this anti-western chapter was invented by westerners.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@WASPmexicano Christian love can shock and transform the world. But Christians are too afraid to wield it.

[Vicente Fox Mulder @WASPmexicano]

Imagine going to a church where the pastor is disgusted by the idea of loving your enemy

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@ShawnMathis1972 What does "enemy-love" mean to you, Pastor?

[Vicente Fox Mulder @WASPmexicano]

@ShawnMathis1972 But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the othe

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@ArlieColes The most shocking (and revolting) teaching I have found in the New Testament is to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. No man has said "crazier" words than these. Truly profound.

[Arlie Coles @ArlieColes]

In some places we are nominally culturally Christian and in others we are thoroughly post-Christian, but a true and scandalous display of difficult Christian virtue is always a shock to the system that turns these out. Forgiveness & love of enemy are, still, scandalous.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

Yes but how do you make this palatable? This offends the common mind.

[Elijah the Middleborne @TheMiddleborne]

Yes, Christ commands us to love our enemies. Even when they persecute us to death.
To think otherwise is to not be obedient and not have a transformed mind

[Tim Callow @RevTimCallow]

Jesus doesn’t command us to love our enemies as yet another strategy to make the world work. We are to love our enemies because it works against the world.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@Decafquest

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@waasim_ "Ghayrah" doesn't exist in Christianity. God abandons ghayrah to die on a cross. Compare Philippians 2.7 to Sahih Muslim Hadith 1499a. Christians have Anti-ghayrah, perhaps a more powerful concept than ghayrah.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

Maududi's Judaism in Light of the Qur'an. He is clearly aware of Jacob wrestling with angel/God, yet claims Israel means "Abdullah" or "God's servant". No sources supplied.

[Mohammed Μωάμεθ @mobokhari]

@sharghzadeh Regret for a colonial past is a uniquely western phenomenon. Subaltern Studies is a western idea.