Love to the neighbor in the mirror of the Bible – Part III

First of all, it can be said that “loving the neighbor” although it seems difficult to implement it in our lives, but at least understanding who is our neighbor is a simple task.
I mean, for example, if our next-door neighbor treats us with hostility, it is not easy to respond with love to his hostility, but it is easy for me to distinguish who has the authority of my neighbor and who does not.
Regarding loving the neighbor, we read in Leviticus 19:18 that:
“…love your neighbor as yourself”.
But who is really our neighbor? But let’s see how Jesus in the Gospel transforms our understanding of the common concept of neighborhood.
In the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10, verses 25 to 37, Jesus tells a story that challenges our common notions of being a neighbor and takes us away from that simple understanding of neighborliness.
In this story, a man is attacked by bandits in the middle of the road, two people of his people reach him and even though they see his condition, they leave him and pass by him.
In the end, a person who was from another tribe, and the injured man did not like that tribe, reaches the head of the injured person; This person picked up the injured person, took him to an inn and took care of him there at his own expense.
Also, when he leaves the inn, he pays the cost of taking care of him more to the owner of the inn.
At the end of the story, Jesus raises a challenging question; Who was the injured neighbor? Did those two people who were from his people but left him? Or that person who, although he was injured by it and rejected by his people and they did not like him, but treated him with love?
In this story, Jesus presents us with a new meaning of being a neighbor.
In this new meaning, assuming that if I go on a trip with a vehicle like a bus, that person whom we don’t know but who is sitting in the seat next to me, can have the status of my neighbor that I need to love him.
From this point of view, love to the neighbor in the biblical sense is not a dry concept that can be understood in the framework of unchangeable and flexible relationships, but it is a concept that can adapt itself to different conditions.
The concept of loving our neighbor encourages us to always and everywhere take care of our surroundings.
This attention and care means to watch our surroundings with a loving look. Wherever he wants to be, whether in a taxi or in line at my neighbor’s bank counter, he should be loved by me.
Maybe we can make a list of those who can be in the list of our neighbors with this new understanding of being a neighbor.
In this list, other than those like our fellow travelers on the same route or those who sit next to us at the bank counter; Who else can we name who have the status of our neighbor?
In your opinion, how effective can this broad concept of neighborhood be in improving our relationships with others? Also, how effective will it be in making a better world to live in?

Loving the neighbor is described in the Bible as a very important moral and religious principle. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus mentioned his teachings and advised people to love and be kind to their neighbors. For example, in Matthew chapter 22, Jesus says, “There are two main principles in our religion: first, God is one God, and second, love your neighbor as yourself.” This teaching shows that love to the neighbor is emphasized as a basic moral law in Christianity.

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus tells the story of the “Good Samaritan” in which a righteous man, left alone from being robbed and injured by robbers on the road, is helped by a Samaritan who is an ethnic group with Jews outnumbering him.

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