Chapter 18: Scary? Sure. But Loving.

Scary Words: "If your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire." (same idea about gouging out your eyes comes next.)

But context is important. He's talking about not causing harm to a child. I think we can handle those words in that context. (Of course, he uses similar words in a broader context back in chapter 5.)

I quote this just to continue my theme. But it's also becoming increasingly clear as I read this same chapter that the Father's love is an overriding theme: He would leave 99 found sheep just to find one lost sheep, for example.