I’m going to be slightly irreverent today. Read no farther if that bothers you.
I read about a pastor in Ohio whose church is near a topless establishment. He organized his parishioners to carry protest signs, take down licence plate numbers of the bar’s patrons, yell out hell-fire warning to customers, and call the topless dancers whores, prostitutes, and worse. His reasoning for this was that he takes seriously his duty to see that the “Gospel of Christ is lifted up.”
That sent me to my Bible, which I’m already quite familiar with. I especially looked at the words attributed to Jesus Christ. Nowhere do I see Him preaching against toplessness. Going back to before His time, it isn’t even in the 10 Commandments.
What I do see, though, is His teaching about tolerance and love. Even if these women were prostitutes, Jesus was known to forgive them, showing them love and support; He didn’t call them names, harass them, or condemn them.
That pastor and I have very different Bibles, as well as views on Christ’s teachings.
There are way too many of these evangelical preachers who tar with feathers! They seem to have completely forgotten what Jesus preaches. It goes to show what happens when Scripture, OT, NT, the Epistles, are quoted out of context
AMEN TO THAT!