I think we have a problem when we talk about Jesus as our king — analogous, perhaps, to the problem we have when we talk about gospel love. We simply don’t use the words “king” and “love” the way Jesus used them.
For us, in every day American English, the word “love” is about what we feel. For Jesus, the word “love” was an action verb about what we do. We want to pair the words “love” and “hate” as opposites. I suspect pairing the words “love” and “kill” would come closer to being opposites, as Jesus used the word “love.” (more…)
