(June 19, 2018 at 6:38 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: "Agape (Ancient Greek ἀγάπη, agapē) is a Greco-Christian term referring to love ... as it embraces a universal, unconditional love that transcends and persists regardless of circumstance." ~ Wikipedia
And yet God cannot accept me as I am. Doesn't sound like agape to me.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"