How did the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church justify spreading hatred and judgement, when Jesus Christ himself did neither? John 3:17 says "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." Luke 6:37 says "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Or even John chapter 8. For all of you who are too lazy to look up the story, here it is... 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
It is believed that when Jesus bent down to write in the sand, he was writing down sins of the people who had picked up the stones. Anyway, I'm extremely curious of what the heck the pastor is preaching at that church. Because that my friend, is not christianity in the slightest form.
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How did the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church justify spreading hatred and judgement, when Jesus Christ himself did neither? John 3:17 says "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." Luke 6:37 says "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven." Or even John chapter 8. For all of you who are too lazy to look up the story, here it is... 1 but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
2 At dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and he sat down to teach them. 3 The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group 4 and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. 5 In the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” 6 They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him.
But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 8 Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground.
9 At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. 10 Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
11 “No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”
It is believed that when Jesus bent down to write in the sand, he was writing down sins of the people who had picked up the stones. Anyway, I'm extremely curious of what the heck the pastor is preaching at that church. Because that my friend, is not christianity in the slightest form.
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