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NanaCat

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11. He wasn't talking in general.
Thu Jun 6, 2024, 08:08 PM
Jun 2024

Did you read the verses before that 'conveniently' cherry-picked tidbit? He wasn't speaking to a public crowd, but to his disciples. So he meant for the disciples to love each other. If he wanted it to be everyone, he would have said that. He didn't.

Funny how christians always 'conveniently forget' to mention that.

Furthermore, that same deity supported a great deal of unloving things like, oh, hell. Do let us know how the permanent torture he repeatedly advocates is 'loving one another.'

I'll wait.

Oh--and he especially spelled out that he considered all of those despicable and unloving laws from the OT to be in effect until the end of the earth. You know, like the laws about forcing rape victims to marry their assailants, selling daughters into sex slavery, selling many others into general slavery and murdering disobedient children (he even advocates for this one explicitly in Matthew 15!), witches, non-believers, homosexuals...

Or did you 'conveniently forget' Matthew 5:18?

Funny how christians always 'forget' that part, too.

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