Amanda Casanova | ChristianHeadlines Contributing Writer | Wednesday, December 5, 2018
A United Methodist Church bishop is facing criticism for a 2017 message where she said Jesus had bigotries.
UMC Mountain Sky Bishop Karen Oliveto said in an August 2017 message that people “want to box Jesus in, carve Him in stone, create an idol out of Him.
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linksComment: Jesus would be the only one we can idolize (worship) since He is God, but I agree that we should not carve images out of Him since we do not know what He looked like and it is said we shouldn't in Exodus 20:4. A bigot He was not. Dictionary definition: intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself. He showed great compassion and interacted with those who held a different opinion. Greater compassion and tolerance you can't show than doing this when you
know someone is wrong. Emphasis on know since He knew Himself to be God and knew what reasons were behind peoples opinions being able to read their hearts. Being God He also knew the truth, and so his opinions were not informed by emotions or chance.