I’m grateful for your courage in naming the harm and also pointing us back to love, the actual heart of the gospel. Blessed, indeed, are the ones who survived and still believe.
Ah, so now you’re speaking for the entire Trinity. Bold move.
If the point still stands, tell me which one. Stoning adulterers? Avoiding shrimp? Wearing mixed fabrics?
If Jesus agreed with everything in the Torah, he wouldn’t have healed on the Sabbath or eaten with sinners or told the pious they’d missed the whole point.
He didn’t come to quote the Torah. He came to rewrite hearts.
Blessed be the ones who can read past Leviticus without losing their compassion.
Your argument confuses civil and ceremonial laws with eternal moral law.
Jesus fulfilled the temporary ones He affirmed the eternal ones. When He told the adulterous woman ‘Go and sin no more’ He showed both mercy and upheld moral truth. Real compassion doesn't redefine sin, it offers freedom from it.
You’re right that mercy doesn’t redefine sin. It reveals it.
But here’s the catch. Every time Jesus dealt with sin, He turned the mirror toward the accuser, not the accused. The crowd wanted blood. He drew in the dust. The moral law wasn’t being rewritten. It was being internalized.
The ones who used Scripture to shame others never realized He was fulfilling it in front of them by refusing to weaponize it.
If moral law means love God and love your neighbor, then the rest is commentary. And commentary never saved a soul.
Blessed be the ones who drop the stones and pick up compassion instead.
While their are times I'd like to reprogram my neighbour, and when my kids were teenagers times when reprogramming or a tranquilizer dart would have been very tempting, love was and is the best and only response.
Rocka, you can throw around “cupcake” all you want, but name-calling isn’t theology, it’s just insecurity with sprinkles.
If your faith needs insults to stand up, maybe it’s not the gospel you’re defending but your ego.
Jesus never called people “cupcake.” He called them beloved, even when they were wrong. If you can’t manage that, you might be quoting Scripture but you’re not embodying it.
Blessed be the ones who know that love is stronger than playground taunts.
Sounds like crucifixion to me. Too dramatic? Ok, stoning, then. Or throwing them into the lions' den. I can keep going but I won't because Itz cruel, sadistic, unhealthy & how can the word "freedom" even qualify to enter that equation of allowing judgement & oppression to come near the word "therapy". Can someone grab a dictionary & review the definition of those 2 words?
I’m grateful for your courage in naming the harm and also pointing us back to love, the actual heart of the gospel. Blessed, indeed, are the ones who survived and still believe.
We are ALL already whole. It’s only the apostates who think otherwise.
Holy Mike should really take a hard look in the mirror.
All of them should.
Homosexuality is an abomination according to God Himself. Oops.
Rocka, you might want to read the part where Jesus lists the abominations.
Oh wait—He never did.
Funny how people can quote God like a voicemail they never listened to all the way through.
Point still stands. Gods son agreed with everything His father from the Torah declared.
Ah, so now you’re speaking for the entire Trinity. Bold move.
If the point still stands, tell me which one. Stoning adulterers? Avoiding shrimp? Wearing mixed fabrics?
If Jesus agreed with everything in the Torah, he wouldn’t have healed on the Sabbath or eaten with sinners or told the pious they’d missed the whole point.
He didn’t come to quote the Torah. He came to rewrite hearts.
Blessed be the ones who can read past Leviticus without losing their compassion.
Your argument confuses civil and ceremonial laws with eternal moral law.
Jesus fulfilled the temporary ones He affirmed the eternal ones. When He told the adulterous woman ‘Go and sin no more’ He showed both mercy and upheld moral truth. Real compassion doesn't redefine sin, it offers freedom from it.
You’re right that mercy doesn’t redefine sin. It reveals it.
But here’s the catch. Every time Jesus dealt with sin, He turned the mirror toward the accuser, not the accused. The crowd wanted blood. He drew in the dust. The moral law wasn’t being rewritten. It was being internalized.
The ones who used Scripture to shame others never realized He was fulfilling it in front of them by refusing to weaponize it.
If moral law means love God and love your neighbor, then the rest is commentary. And commentary never saved a soul.
Blessed be the ones who drop the stones and pick up compassion instead.
While their are times I'd like to reprogram my neighbour, and when my kids were teenagers times when reprogramming or a tranquilizer dart would have been very tempting, love was and is the best and only response.
Scripture doesn’t bend to your feelings or society’s current standards cupcake.
Rocka, you can throw around “cupcake” all you want, but name-calling isn’t theology, it’s just insecurity with sprinkles.
If your faith needs insults to stand up, maybe it’s not the gospel you’re defending but your ego.
Jesus never called people “cupcake.” He called them beloved, even when they were wrong. If you can’t manage that, you might be quoting Scripture but you’re not embodying it.
Blessed be the ones who know that love is stronger than playground taunts.
Sounds like crucifixion to me. Too dramatic? Ok, stoning, then. Or throwing them into the lions' den. I can keep going but I won't because Itz cruel, sadistic, unhealthy & how can the word "freedom" even qualify to enter that equation of allowing judgement & oppression to come near the word "therapy". Can someone grab a dictionary & review the definition of those 2 words?
And he said that WHERE?
Leviticus is a VERY misread book, so don’t even try. 🙄