Defeater Ethics: Loving God and Neighbor
Every Square Inch Podcast
Christ for Kentucky
4.9 • 557 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
A common stumbling block for those who reject the Christian faith is the failure of those who call Christ their Savior to love their neighbor, especially when it comes to loving your LGBTQ+ neighbor. In this week’s episode, Robert looks to what Jesus called “the greatest commandment” to help us understand why and how we are to love our neighbors.
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| 0:42.8 | Thank you for your support, and we hope to our discussion on defeater ethics. |
| 1:04.3 | We are doing our best to answer ethical objections to the Christian faith, those things that bring into question, not necessarily |
| 1:12.4 | the truth of God, but more so the goodness of God. And we've reached a tipping point of sorts |
| 1:20.5 | in our series. Thus far, we have discussed ethical objections against God himself. How can a good God judge humanity? How can a good |
| 1:30.8 | God allow evil and suffering? The one we just completed was how can a good God have a restrictive, |
| 1:38.0 | sexual, ethical boundaries? How can he tell us what to do in the arena of sex? So moving forward, we've answered |
| 1:46.9 | the God questions. Moving forward, the defeater ethics I will address are not about God, |
| 1:52.2 | but our poor representation of God. That is to say, the failures of Christians that people |
| 1:58.5 | then hold against Christ himself, such as church abuse scandals |
| 2:03.4 | and things like this. Now, those are certainly serious discussions. I don't want to minimize them, |
| 2:09.2 | but they are actually easier to answer and will not take as much time. And so things are really |
| 2:13.3 | going to pick up from here. But I received a question that I couldn't resist addressing. |
| 2:21.6 | It was in my response to the three-part discussion on sexual ethics we just had, and it has |
| 2:27.0 | something to do with the notion of love. I'm not going to read the whole thing because there |
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