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=> hypocrisy at the heart

hypocrisy at the heart
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Monday, October 19 2015, 14:42:38 (UTC)
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...it's a puzzling condition. Christians love Jesus, they weep, they grovel, they raise their hands, they weep some more. But ask any of them, once they calm down, if they would have acted to save his life, and they will turn and walk away.

It's a strange form of love when you would not have saved the the person you love from torture and death.

Say you are weeping for a child you loved dearly, who had been treated as Jesus had...and someone said you had the chance to save your child from that fate...would you walk away? Would you allow your child to be killed "for you"?

Christians don't "celebrate love"...they walk away from it. It's Job all over again. Christian apologists say the Job story is significant because God STOPS the Hebrews from human sacrifice, something they did regularly, by substituting animals...he couldn't have found a less traumatic way to do it, for the child?

But he comes back to it and this time insists a man, his own son if not Job's, has to be sacrificed after all. So, what was the "point" of the Job story after all?

It is not a "great love" when you have your child killed to save the neighbors...it is a crime. Charity begins at home, so does love. If you can't love and protect your own child, what good is your "love of others"?



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