Ironically the whole point of The Good Samaritan is "Loving your neighbor is so easy, a Samaritan could do it". The idea being, followers of the true God should logically be the ones who are doing this stuff all the time, if only they hadn't invented so many convoluted reasons not to. The Samaritan has bad theology but still ends up doing the right thing just because it's so blindingly obvious.
Megan Basham's take honestly just feels like the standard Reformed theology line I heard growing up in my teens: "Jesus doesn't reeaaallly expect you to live the Sermon on the Mount, he's just trying to show you what a miserable little depraved worm you are"
This is so good. I haven't seen a better analogy for what they've warped Christ into. Thank you for doing what you do. It's inspiring.
Ironically the whole point of The Good Samaritan is "Loving your neighbor is so easy, a Samaritan could do it". The idea being, followers of the true God should logically be the ones who are doing this stuff all the time, if only they hadn't invented so many convoluted reasons not to. The Samaritan has bad theology but still ends up doing the right thing just because it's so blindingly obvious.
Megan Basham's take honestly just feels like the standard Reformed theology line I heard growing up in my teens: "Jesus doesn't reeaaallly expect you to live the Sermon on the Mount, he's just trying to show you what a miserable little depraved worm you are"