The reason people leave churches is because most churches lack authenticity in their practice and doctrine. People do not need churches that try to get with "the times" with gimmicks like band music or trying to change doctrine and appearance for conformance sake. Rather, people seek authentic...
Go and sin no more means honestly repenting through correcting your ways. It does not mean to be perfect, but it means to strive towards that. I admittedly cannot speak as to how that might affect how one does business with others, but as I see it business owners are entitled to control their...
Even if he wasn't able to read, he would've known the Bible as it existed as an oral tradition as well at the time. What prevents a "simple carpenter" from becoming literate anyways? Also, from a Christian perspective he would know the Bible better than anyone else as God incarnate...
Not the Gospels perhaps, but certainly he read the OT/Torah seeing that he references it quite often.
Christ is by no means a conservative in the modern sense, but that doesn't mean he's some hippie liberal SJW either. People on both sides have made the mistake of making Christ into something...
The love expressed by Jesus is profoundly different in its quality and quantity than mere romance. Also romance and love can be mutually exclusive at times IMHO.
Objective. There are certain situations in which it may be relative, but to say that the entirety of morality is relatively is baseless and not grounded in reality IMHO.