by Steven Ertelt, Lifenews.com
Some leading pro-life advocates are not happy with a Super Bowl ad that appeared to justify abortion.
During the big game last night, one of the ads sponsored by a Christian group shows people in various settings washing people’s feet. The ad is meant to convey the Biblical principle of Christians serving other people as service to the Lord.
One of the situations depicted is an AI photo showing a woman washing the feet of a woman outside an abortion business that the ad misleadingly labeled as a “Family Planning Clinic.”
Some pro-life advocates criticized the ad for making it appear that it was endorsing women getting abortions, which kill unborn children and violate Biblical pro-life principles. Other say the ad merely calls on us to follow Jesus’ command to love our neighbors and people regardless of who they are and what they do.
Joel Berry, the managing editor of the Babylon Bee, thought the commercial was leftism surrounding by a Jesus message.
There’s a reason the “He Gets Us” commercial didn’t show a liberal washing the feet of someone in a MAGA hat, or a BLM protestor washing an officer’s feet. That would’ve been actually subversive. Because they were strictly following oppressed v oppressor intersectionality guidelines.
This tells me they were either: A) trying to sell Jesus to Leftists by hinting Jesus thinks just like them, or B) cynically using Jesus to sell a political movement.
Here is the take of Ryan Bomberger, who leads the pro-life group Radiance Foundation. He cautioned that the ad could be seen as endorsing abortion rather than loving God and people but hating the sins.
Interesting ad from #HeGetsUs. It declares: “Jesus Didn’t Teach Hate.” Yes. And No. Of course He taught us to love one another as He has loved us. His Word also teaches us to “love what is good & hate what is evil.”
Even so, ad is thought-provoking and captures the beauty of humility.
I will say, however, that there can be all kinds of confusion with what they’re saying. If no one visits the website and digs deeper, it may appear to be sending a message that “He Affirms Us” instead of “He Transforms Us”. Also, disagreement & truth ≠ hate. Maybe better campaign name that captures Christ’s essence would be: #HeChangesUs
Southern Seminary professor Andrew Walker is one of those who took issue with the presentation of the commercial, sponsored by He Gets Us.
“He Gets Us framed evangelism with a leftward tinge, communicating the respectability of certain sins over others in our culture (although I’m not sure the ad even communicated that the respectable sins were sins at all),” Walker said on X (formerly known as Twitter).
“The socially high-status sins of the Left are the ones Christians are told to evangelize, not the low-status sins of the Deplorable Right because, it seems, they are the ones truly outside redemption’s reach,” he said. “Jesus loved the outcast, the broken, of course. So should we. That’s the beauty of Jesus—there is no partiality in the degree or type of brokenness in need of his redemption. The conditioning effect of these commercials in framing and reaffirming the social castes of American sin, however, is really something.”
“The truth of the matter is that Jesus redeems sinners from both the Right and the Left, whether high-status or low-status. Everyone is equal in their need for Christ (Rom. 3:23). That could have been communicated, but wasn’t,” he added.
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Truth and Love…….thump, thump, thump….
There is no sin that can’t be forgiven. He wants our hearts. If we examine ourselves, we may find that we can’t keep any of the ten commandments, on any day of the week.
Christians should have great compassion to those who have been lied to, who have been told lies and believed them. They should forgive them, as Jesus does for us.
What can we do? Make it easy for adoption. Tell our children the truth, sex is not love. That fetus is not a “product of conception” but a baby. There are serious implications for sex outside of marriage (one of those pesky commandments outlawed at every Vermont school), the pornography is not a good path for men to be involved with and for women to make money from, it only supports the basest of humanity, women wanting money and men wanting sex,
When they both want Love, Security and Intimacy. Planned Parenthood is not the answer, that is for sure.
The point of this ad is to profess the love of Jesus for all–not just those who agree with us. We are called to “love our enemies!” That doesn’t mean that we change the message. It probably means we should change how we approach those who look at the world differently that we do.
The father of lies and deception is Lucifer. His cunning, deceptive ways are to twist the Word of God to suit his purpose – just the same way he did in the garden of Eden. Today, we have the body of Christ accepting blasphomy and heresy from religious leaders, clergy, ministers, priests, false prophets, and scribes. The shephards in the houses of our Lord leading their flocks to ruin and condemnation. Woe onto all of them. Jesus loved the sinner and condemned the sin. You cannot obtain salvation or forgiveness without repenting and rebuking of sin and shall sin no more. You cannot be saved continuing to sin, ignore sins, dabble in the dark arts, live and be led by the flesh, and consume the fruits from the forbidden tree. The Word of God is clear as Jesus spoke it, lived it, and taught it to His disciples. Man, through Lucifer’s tactics, is twisting it and perverting it to lead the flock astray and steal their souls.
Galatians 5:16-26
16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do[b] such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
These pro-life people are all too stupid to figure out that 1+1=3, or to do anything to prevent it. So I don’t care what they say.