Jesus is LORD, love one another. If we would stop pointing at people’s sins, and start point to Jesus and His identity as God Himself in flesh (Father Truth, His Spirit Love, Son the Form of God), and we treated other people the way that we want to be treated — in spite of sin and in spite of what we do or don’t like — it would do a lot more good. We are far too wrapped up in worrying about our mortal flesh (which can’t enter the Kingdom of Heaven anyway), and we’re not nearly concerned enough with our souls and what comes after death.
The LORD didn’t ask for the blood of bulls of goats (Isaiah 1:11, Hebrews 10:4): Consider blood as figurative of contempt. Our holding contempt for others because of their sin is NOT what God wants of us. Each of us will answer for our own sins; we can’t answer for what anyone else does, or how anyone else acts.
What the LORD asks of us is that we share the Gospel that reveals Jesus as LORD God Almighty, the immortal God taking off His immortality, come, revealing His identity to His creation, accused, beaten, crucified, and risen immortal once again; and to love our neighbours as ourselves. That’s IT. We needn’t add anything to that, or take anything from away from it. Because in doing so, we start playing God over other people, and that’s not right.
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 2 years ago
It works either way.
socalvillaguy Premium Member over 2 years ago
The Pope’s critics also say he’s too liberal. What are you going to do?
KKpt Prien Premium Member over 2 years ago
And the point here is………?
The Pro from Dover over 2 years ago
You might say I’m a dreamer
gigagrouch over 2 years ago
Wouldn’t it make more sense to bring the margins to the centre?
Wendy B. over 2 years ago
Jesus is LORD, love one another. If we would stop pointing at people’s sins, and start point to Jesus and His identity as God Himself in flesh (Father Truth, His Spirit Love, Son the Form of God), and we treated other people the way that we want to be treated — in spite of sin and in spite of what we do or don’t like — it would do a lot more good. We are far too wrapped up in worrying about our mortal flesh (which can’t enter the Kingdom of Heaven anyway), and we’re not nearly concerned enough with our souls and what comes after death.
The LORD didn’t ask for the blood of bulls of goats (Isaiah 1:11, Hebrews 10:4): Consider blood as figurative of contempt. Our holding contempt for others because of their sin is NOT what God wants of us. Each of us will answer for our own sins; we can’t answer for what anyone else does, or how anyone else acts.
What the LORD asks of us is that we share the Gospel that reveals Jesus as LORD God Almighty, the immortal God taking off His immortality, come, revealing His identity to His creation, accused, beaten, crucified, and risen immortal once again; and to love our neighbours as ourselves. That’s IT. We needn’t add anything to that, or take anything from away from it. Because in doing so, we start playing God over other people, and that’s not right.
rmbdot over 2 years ago
In what bearded-Spock universe are his critics saying Francis is too conservative?
Miguelito52 over 2 years ago
This Pope conservative? In America, his critics say he is to liberal. Maybe Mr. Marrin is writing from European perspective? Funny how it goes…