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From Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes by John Shelby Spong:

Jesus is…for me the conduit through which the love of God was loosed into human history. Jesus lived the love of God. This love was and is wasteful love, embracing love, inclusive love. It is a love that overflows every human boundary. That is why Jesus was portrayed by the Gospel writers as stepping across the racial divide to heal the Samaritan; or as stepping across the cultural divide to engage the woman at the well in conversation; or as stepping over the cultic purification laws to embrace the lepers; or as moving past that intensely human divide that enabled him to forgive his executioners. These are the kinds of things that the love of God does. That is also why the biblical portrait drawn of Jesus portrays him as loving the one who betrayed him, the one who denied him, the ones who forsook him and fled, and even the ones who killed him. The love of God is boundless. God loves in the face of every affront, every abuse, and every denial of love. That love of God which Christians believe they meet in Jesus has one purpose: It is to invite us to be and to love us into being loving people…