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To: 556x45; maggief
‘“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 Situation Ethics was invented by Joseph Fletcher in the 1960s, and it said that the laws of the Bible were superseded by the law of love--except that we get to define what "love" is, what the "loving thing" to do is, in any given situation: cf.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.

56 posted on 09/09/2016 8:41:22 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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What speaks volumes is this denomination allowed her to finsh unchallenged. It seems theyre as corrupt and undecerning.


64 posted on 09/09/2016 8:47:03 AM PDT by 556x45
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