Doesn't the Bible Say to Remove the Log From Your Own Eye? [260]
Flying Free
Natalie Hoffman
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever been told to, “first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will be able to see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye” in regards to your emotionally abusive marriage? That passage of the Bible is often used to mutualize the sin of the abuser and his victim. This is called sin-leveling, and it’s a form of spiritual abuse.
Karen McMahon is here to show us how to take back the meaning of these verses to empower and strengthen ourselves.
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Karen McMahon is a High Conflict Divorce Strategist, Certified Divorce Coach and Founder of Journey Beyond Divorce. She works with women going through high-conflict divorces. Her signature approach addresses the internal intricacies of intense emotions, fixed mindset and unconscious behaviors along with external complexities of legal approaches, financial awareness and co-parenting hurdles, ensuring that her clients emerge both victorious and transformed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying Free Now.com and you're listening to the |
| 0:09.3 | Flying Free Podcast, a support resource for Women of faith, looking for hope and healing from hidden |
| 0:16.4 | emotional and spiritual abuse. Welcome to episode 260 of the Flying Free Podcast. |
| 0:28.0 | When you have confronted any kind of abuse, |
| 0:31.1 | have you ever been told to take the log out of your own eye before you try to take |
| 0:35.4 | the splinter out of someone else's? This is a common comeback that religious abusers use to divert |
| 0:41.1 | attention away from their own behavior and turn the focus back on you, making |
| 0:46.2 | their bad behavior your problem and your responsibility. |
| 0:50.6 | Well today we are going to talk about that with our special guest. Her name is |
| 0:54.4 | Karen McMahon and she's a high conflict divorce strategist, certified divorce coach, |
| 0:59.3 | and founder of Journey Beyond Divorce. |
| 1:02.5 | Welcome, Karen. |
| 1:04.0 | Hi, how are you? |
| 1:05.6 | Good. |
| 1:06.5 | So I think I'm gonna read the Bible verse, |
| 1:09.0 | first of all, that we're gonna talk about, |
| 1:10.6 | so everyone knows is on the same page.'s from Matthew 7 3 through 5 and it says why do you look at the |
| 1:17.1 | spec of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye. How can you say to your brother, let me take |
| 1:25.5 | the speck out of your eye, when all the time there's a plank in your own eye, you |
| 1:30.2 | hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye and then you will be able to see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. |
| 1:38.0 | Now first of all, when I read that, I'm pretty sure that Jesus was not talking to a bunch of people on a hill who were all |
| 1:46.0 | victims of abuse. What do you think? I don't know. I don't think that's what he was talking |
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