There will never be enough cops to make everyone behave correctly.
(And even if you go down this path, then ‘Who’ determines what is correct behavior?)
SO TRUE.
We all know what the "correct behavior" is: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Pretty simple, innit?
We are so blessed to have God's wonderful mercy and forgiveness...if we ask for it.
After the betrayals:
*Judas didn't believe that he could be forgiven. He hanged himself.
**Peter did believe that he could be forgiven. HE became the ROCK [Peter, from the Latin petram] on which Jesus built His Church. Simon bar Jonah; Simon, son of Jonah.
From the Bible, Matthew 16:18
Peter's Confession of Christ
…17Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah! For this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by My Father in heaven.
18And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
19I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on the earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”…
Simon Peter answers, "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." Jesus then declares: Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven.
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St. Peter became the first vicar of Jesus' Church. There have been the same vicars of Jesus' Church for the last 2000 years.
When one enters St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, one can see the list of ALL the popes, beginning with St. Peter...actually engraved in granite.
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Sorry for being so verbose. I've only had ONE cup of coffee, too. YIKES.
As I’ve already noted, and as John Adams told us, “Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people.”