From an amazing interesting article about one of Fred Phelps’s granddaughters who left Westboro Baptist Church:
Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church
“My doubts started with a conversation I had with David Abitbol,” she says. Megan met David, an Israeli web developer who’s part of the team behind the blog Jewlicious, on Twitter. “I would ask him questions about Judaism, and he would ask me questions about church doctrine. One day, he asked a specific question about one of our signs—‘Death Penalty for Fags’—and I was arguing for the church’s position, that it was a Levitical punishment and as completely appropriate now as it was then. He said, ‘But Jesus said’—and I thought it was funny he was quoting Jesus—‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’ And then he connected it to another member of the church who had done something that, according to the Old Testament, was also punishable by death. I realized that if the death penalty was instituted for any sin, you completely cut off the opportunity to repent. And that’s what Jesus was talking about.”
This made me smile. It also reminds me…
When we rush to judge we place ourselves in God’s place. Though the judgement may be just, thanks to grace and a loving God and his Son, we can be spared from that judgement. Glory to God.