The second theme that emerged while reading the Gospels is that, if Jesus is God, then God has not forgotten the downtrodden and oppressed of this world. In fact, Jesus had a special relationship with the most forgotten of first-century society: women, tax collectors, sick people, minorities, Samaritans, and sinners. Jesus welcomed children into his arms and washed his disciples’ dirty feet. He took those suffering from leprosy by the hand and surrounded himself with the poor and uneducated. Jesus began his first sermon by explaining not that the poor are unlucky victims of the cosmic lottery
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