I understood perfectly. Your dismissive tone represents the denial of God’s absolute authority over every dot and tittle of yours and everyone’s life. That is what this thread is about.
Matthew 22:36-40 reads, “Teacher, which is the GREATEST commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘LOVE the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘LOVE your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
So tell me, what do you think Jesus meant by "love"?
All I'm hearing you say is that it means to preach hellfire for any evidence of sin.
Okay, I got that. But is that it? Is that the sum total of what you are saying Jesus meant by "love"?
That's it?
Then how does the speck in the eye versus the log in the eye come into play, and the forgiveness and compassion and mercy?
Or do they all get based on "learning" to abandon gentleness, and "finding" the courage to constantly tell everyone they are going to hell for their lack of perfect sinlessness, because that - alone - is the only REAL meaning Jesus taught for the idea of "loving" each other.
I'm perfectly serious. Go ahead, teach me. Explain why I need to abandon all my other ways of understanding what Jesus meant by love, for the sole interpretation of the "courage" to pound on the idea of hellfire for any trace of sin.
Because I'm not seeing that level of utter rejection of all tenderness in Jesus's meaning, and I don't see any lack of humility in it, either. All I see is savagery, and the creation of a monstrous world of abject terror and constant threats of damnation in the name of "true" love - and anything "less" harsh as being a "rejection of the truth".
Is that what you mean? Is that what you are saying Jesus actually meant by the word "love"? Do I understand you correctly? Please explain.