By letting her keep her family despite ruining all of them, you are in fact enabling her bad decisions by removing the major consequences of it.
Also you should try a dictionary, it'll help with the word "egregious." Because there are an endless amount of things that call for forgiveness without reaching a level of outstandingly bad. I know this might be hard, but the world isn't black/white, 1/0. There are in fact levels to things. Though considering you moved from calling for reconciliation, now to forgive and love, and are treating them as the same thing means you should add a thesaurus with the dictionary so you know when words aren't synonymous.
The burning stake has meaning to it, letting yourself be used and taken for a fool does not.
You keep changing the options to suit your own argument. Condemnation is also not reconciliation nor love/forgiveness.
Each one is a very different path you can take in regards to this type of sin. You can love/forgive while also removing them from your life, without a need to compromise nor retributive condemning.
Absolutely is. Its an act of love for yourself and your own family by protecting them from a toxic and extremely damaging person. Its an act of love towards them by showing them their behavior has major consequences and not enabling it, helping their own personal growth and that they need to do so to have a possibility of being welcomed back.
Meaningless martyrdom might make you feel like you are being a "Good Christian" but its actively making the world a worse place AND reducing the amount of good you can do in it. And if you don't want to have any nuance in your reading of the Bible, you best be following every single word of it to the letter which I doubt anyone does meaning their hard stanced black/white views on certain things are hypocritical.
By letting her keep her family despite ruining all of them, you are in fact enabling her bad decisions by removing the major consequences of it.
Also you should try a dictionary, it'll help with the word "egregious." Because there are an endless amount of things that call for forgiveness without reaching a level of outstandingly bad. I know this might be hard, but the world isn't black/white, 1/0. There are in fact levels to things. Though considering you moved from calling for reconciliation, now to forgive and love, and are treating them as the same thing means you should add a thesaurus with the dictionary so you know when words aren't synonymous.
The burning stake has meaning to it, letting yourself be used and taken for a fool does not.
Granted, I assumed her regret for the sake of argument. Between mercy and condemnation, though, the Christian option is clear.
You keep changing the options to suit your own argument. Condemnation is also not reconciliation nor love/forgiveness.
Each one is a very different path you can take in regards to this type of sin. You can love/forgive while also removing them from your life, without a need to compromise nor retributive condemning.
Removing people from one's life isn't an act of love. Love is involved.
Absolutely is. Its an act of love for yourself and your own family by protecting them from a toxic and extremely damaging person. Its an act of love towards them by showing them their behavior has major consequences and not enabling it, helping their own personal growth and that they need to do so to have a possibility of being welcomed back.
Meaningless martyrdom might make you feel like you are being a "Good Christian" but its actively making the world a worse place AND reducing the amount of good you can do in it. And if you don't want to have any nuance in your reading of the Bible, you best be following every single word of it to the letter which I doubt anyone does meaning their hard stanced black/white views on certain things are hypocritical.