Whether Nicole Lovell was bullied in school is irrelevant to the fact that she was murdered by an adult who was mistreating her. All kids get bullied in Middle School. My son played football at BMS and even he had to go through it. It just comes at different degrees.
But the murder points out the willingness of the ferals(which include Keepers and Eisenhauer) to treat human life as if it is insignificant. We have raised a generation of people who are willing to kill without remorse. Which is what animals do.
Once again, the first matter to consider is that no one has a right to judge other people. Instead, we are commanded to love other people.
If someone is a Christian, they believe Hell exists. And they believe that they deserve Hell due to their sin, and that only because Jesus suffered and died in our place to pay for our sins do we escape Hell.
And Christians also believe that Hell is something like what it would be like to be trapped on the upper floors of the burning World Trade Center on 9/11, except there’s no escape - endless torment.
If you believe that you’ve been spared from such a fate which you deserved, by God just showing mercy to you, then you will walking humbly before Him, which means being humble and loving towards other - which He commands us to be if we will receive His mercy and be spared Hell.
The Bible is God’s contract with us, in particular the New Testament, or Covenant. And these words “judge” and “love” have to be defined as He tells us to define them.
And we are take seriously every word of God’s Covenant with us. This is Matthew 12:36:
“But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
The Bible says a lot about how we are to treat others, including when we speak of them, and think of ourselves, and fear God. Jesus preached that. The Bible instructs us on the attitudes we’re supposed to have, and not have, and God’s commands aren’t optional. If we’re going to say negative things about others, then we have to be humble, we have to have love for the other person, take the mote out of our eyes, and remember our own sin against God, and how terrible it is, and our need for His forgiveness.
“Whether Nicole Lovell was bullied in school is irrelevant to the fact that she was murdered by an adult who was mistreating her.”
It’s not irrelevant.
We’re talking about young people here. And you can dismiss bullying as not meaning much, but it does. It’s an expression of the hate in the human heart. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9.
Yes there’s a comparison. Kids in what would be the best natural situations on earth can be heartless and rebellious against what’s good. And it doesn’t just end in middle school or high school. I also worked in many virtually all-white workplaces and was part of similar social circles, like many white people. In those cases, race practically disappears and everything else remains. You don’t think about being with “white people,” but just “people.” And spending all that time with “people,” you see all the things they do, including so many dishonest things. You see their sins. I’ve seen posters here comment that they really don’t like or trust most people. Think about your experiences with “people” and all you’ve seen them do wrong.
The part from “yes there’s a comparison” in my last post to you wasn’t meant to be included.