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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

In this moment, this man is sort of living the platonic ideal of Christianity.

Christians are supposed to be willing to suffer to do the right thing, and explicitly one of those things they're supposed to be willing to suffer to do is help people. Care for sick, the poor, and the lost regardless of how the law feels about it.

The law commands he turn a blind eye to the suffering of his fellow human, but justice does not come from the law and their Bible has clear instruction on this.

Galatians 2:19

For through the law I died to the law, that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ; yet I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me.

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing