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“Dorothy Lee<\/span>: \u201cReligion itself is no proof against sin and evil. On the contrary, there are no more culpable sinners, for [John] the evangelist, than those religious leaders who lack self-knowledge and are filled with self-delusion; who harm those entrusted to their care; 1\/3″ Aaron Hann @aaronjhamm on X (X.com) May 30, 2024\u00a0Pt.1<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Examples of religious leaders doing harm: Matt. 23: 4, 14-15 They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger….<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, <\/span><\/span>hypocrites! you shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.…<\/span><\/span><\/span> you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves…<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n John 8:3-5\u00a0 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst<\/span>\u00a0they said to him, \u201cTeacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery.<\/span>\u00a0Now\u00a0in the Law, Moses commanded us\u00a0to stone such women. So what do you say?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Dorothy Lee: \u201cReligion…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thought-for-the-day"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}