“But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.” (Luke 6:27-28 ESV)
Many might question why Jesus would instruct us to love our enemies instead of destroying them but Jesus must have had a valid reason for doing so. Socrates gives us a reason. He says in “Gorgias” that the one who commits evil is worse off than the one who is the recipient of that evil because doing evil damages our soul more than being on the receiving end of evil. [1]
So the choice each of us has to make is whether we will knowingly damage our soul for eternity in order to gain an advantage in this life or whether we will choose to renovate, to repair or make as new again, our eternal soul in the time we have left in this life.
“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?” (Mark 8:36 ESV)
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[1] Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Collected Dialogues of Plato, The. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1961, pp. 263, 291.
