Bryan Wolfmueller, pastor of St Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX, author of "A Martyr's Faith for a Faithless World", "Has American Christianity Failed?", co-host of Table Talk Radio, teacher of Grappling with the Text, and theological adventure traveler. View all posts by Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller →
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Jesus ran the money changers out of the temple with a whip.
The scribes and pharisees were some of the most upright people acording to obeying the law. Jesus didnt cut them any slack he preached the truth to them and most of them wouldn’t listen they were so good they were self righous.
I don’t think that it is a “different kind of love” (your turn of phrase), so much as it is a different way that love is expressed. Agape is the same in all of those different contexts. I agree with you that the actions or positions that are taken on the basis of agape will not look the same, because agape acts for the best interests of its object in all cases, but that doesn’t always look the same in all cases.
Jesus ran the money changers out of the temple with a whip.
The scribes and pharisees were some of the most upright people acording to obeying the law. Jesus didnt cut them any slack he preached the truth to them and most of them wouldn’t listen they were so good they were self righous.
I don’t think that it is a “different kind of love” (your turn of phrase), so much as it is a different way that love is expressed. Agape is the same in all of those different contexts. I agree with you that the actions or positions that are taken on the basis of agape will not look the same, because agape acts for the best interests of its object in all cases, but that doesn’t always look the same in all cases.