| ...."Jesus selectively emphasizes the texts that reveal his God as good, faithful,
inclusive, and merciful, and he creates stories--and concrete healing events--to
communicate that very point, such as The Good Samaritan, The Prodigal Son, and
The Publican and the Pharisee. Each of these stories and healings are true on
many different levels. That is exactly what makes them inspired
stories! Jesus consistently ignored passages that reveal his God to be
punitive, exclusionary, imperialistic, small, or tribal. ,,,Pope Francis insists that mercy is at the very top of the Christian hierarchy of
great truths, and everything falls apart whenever mercy is displaced by anything
else." |
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