What the logical explanation to these words of Jesus:"Give and It shall given to you"? Luke 6:38?

Question

I don't not need the usual cliches , but I would like something rationale.

Answer 1

Growing up in a Christian household I was taught that it was like Karma. Like give respect and you will get respect back. Help someone and you shall recieve help when needed. Or in other terms....disrespect and you will be disrespected back. It means positive and negative. As in be a good person or a bad person and you will be treated the same way you act.

Answer 2

God understands that some people have more than others. He doesn't love one person more because they tithe more money. He blesses those who work for him and give him what they can. God will take what you give and multiply it.

Answer 3

I like the following discription from from Matthew Henry's Commentary

"Luke 6:37-49

II. If we are of a giving and a forgiving spirit, we shall ourselves reap the benefit of it: Forgive and you shall be forgiven. If we forgive the injuries done to us by others, others will forgive our inadvertencies. If we forgive others' trespasses against us, God will forgive our trespasses against him. And he will be no less mindful of the liberal that devise liberal things (v. 38): Give, and it shall be given to you. God, in his providence, will recompense it to you; it is lent to him, and he is not unrighteous to forget it <Heb. 6:10>, but he will pay it again. Men shall return it into your bosom; for God often makes use of men as instruments, not only of his avenging, but of his rewarding justice. If we in a right manner give to others when they need, God will incline the hearts of others to give to us when we need, and to give liberally, good measure pressed down and shaken together. They that sow plentifully shall reap plentifully. Whom God recompenses he recompenses abundantly.

III. We must expect to be dealt with ourselves as we deal with others: With the same measure that ye mete it shall be measured to you again. Those that deal hardly with others must acknowledge, as Adoni-bezek did <Judg. 1:7>, that God is righteous, if others deal hardly with them, and they may expect to be paid in their own coin; but they that deal kindly with others have reason to hope that, when they have occasion, God will raise them up friends who will deal kindly with them. Though Providence does not always go by this rule, because the full and exact retributions are reserved for another world, yet, ordinarily, it observes a proportion sufficient to deter us from all acts of rigour and to encourage us in all acts of beneficence."

Answer 4

well im not much of a religiouse person but the way i see this....

Jesus says give something and it shall be given to you..

He is talking about karma basically...

whatever you give to others will be given back to you.....

like for example you give someone help and help will be given back to you....

hope this is logical enough

Answer 5

That one passage really just sums up a majority of that whole chapter...

"35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.

   36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

   37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

   38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again."

Rather than doing all these things we are all tempted to do (judging others, etc.), he asks that we be forgiving and unjudgmental and the same will be given to us. It's basically like a test.