‘“We are commanded to love,” she said. “Indeed, Jesus made it his greatest commandment. When I used to teach the occasional Sunday School class, I often taught on that lesson. That’s a hard commandment to obey. Some days it’s really hard for me.”’
Esp in the context of her rabid stand on abortion. Would like to hear how the 2 are compatible.
HRC is not a small-o orthodox Christian; she is a Situation Ethicist. Situation Ethics was invented by Joseph Fletcher in the 1960s, and it said that the laws of the Bible were superseded by the law of love--except that we get to define what "love" is, what the "loving thing" to do is, in any given situation: cf. here.
Most liberal denominations, and liberals in Christian churches, are Situation Ethicists in one form or another.
“‘“We are commanded to love,” she said. “Indeed, Jesus made it his greatest commandment. When I used to teach the occasional Sunday School class, I often taught on that lesson.”
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40 On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” - Matt 22
Notice what Jesus said was the great and first commandment:
““You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.”
Jesus wasn’t talking about tolerating abortion, sexual perversion and greed in a wish-washy, non-condemning pretense of love. And the greatest commandment is to love God first, foremost and above all others.
If Hillary was allowed to teach a Sunday School class in an SBC church, may that church burn the building down in repentance!