You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the LORD.
I mean, you’re still stuck with low-Intelligence Americans interpreting “neighbor” narrowly, but that’s still a matter of misinterpreting what the actual words mean.
True but in this case Leviticus sets up quite a few rules for how to treat Israelites vs non Israelites so I think it’s a much more reasonable interpretation in that case. In the other example though it’s very clear that it’s meant to be universal.
Leviticus 19:18 isn’t particularly narrow:
I mean, you’re still stuck with low-Intelligence Americans interpreting “neighbor” narrowly, but that’s still a matter of misinterpreting what the actual words mean.
True but in this case Leviticus sets up quite a few rules for how to treat Israelites vs non Israelites so I think it’s a much more reasonable interpretation in that case. In the other example though it’s very clear that it’s meant to be universal.