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Blogs > Tropical_Man > Meriam's Guy


Tropical_Man 68M
6573 posts
10/19/2008 3:24 am
Jesus attitude towards sinners

Jesus attitude towards sexual sinners and indeed sinners in general is surprising. We would naturally expect him to condemn sinners, especially in the light of the OT punishment that said adulterers should be stoned. In fact the people that Jesus condemned were the religious people, especially the Pharisees. Jesus attitude to sinners should be considered in the light of John 3:17 in which God did not send Jesus into the world to condemn it, but to save it through Jesus, see also Luke's statement 'For the of Man came to seek and to save what was lost' (Luke 19:10). When Jesus returns a second time then the world will be judged, but in the meantime His word to sinners is repent and be saved.

(John 3:17) For God did not send his into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

(Luke 19:10) For the of Man came to seek and to save what was lost."

(Luke 5:29-32) Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. {30} But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" {31} Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. {32} I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."



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