Are there circumstances where you cannot 'turn the other cheek'?

[Deja Q]

The Bible states 'turn the other cheek' and overlook displeasing events.

The Bible also states "Do unto others as you'd like them to do unto you".

Both of these don't work well together.

Would you turn the other cheek toward a person who wants to see you dead and has already acted in such a manner confirming that? (speculation is one thing. Proven action is another.)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. I think what it meant back them when Jesus was talking to

his disciples is not what it meant now. I heard it meant something like if a person strikes you using a backhand then offer the other cheek to be struck like a non-servant. Hence the term backhand as an insult. It was tough times back then.

[WindRavenX]

2. Betrayal

Or being lied to.

After having BOTH happen to me, I can without hesitation that these two things are the only things that can or will make me genuinely enraged at another human being and not be able to forgive them.

[undeterred]

3. when you've had buttocks surgery

and have no cheek to turn...

[VOX]

4. Yes. When an injustice is committed in the world.

And that begins simply with my life, or the lives of my wife or friends being threatened, to the more global and complex, such as the destruction of wildlife and the environment, starvation, poverty, torture, needless wars, genocide.

These situations call for direct action.

[billyskank]

5. For me

if someone criticises my Guru. I am not allowed to tolerate that. Anything else I should tolerate.