{
  "id": "MTOM-0098",
  "title": "Empathy made the supreme virtue",
  "slug": "empathy-made-the-supreme-virtue",
  "url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/modern-traditions-of-men/empathy-made-the-supreme-virtue/",
  "category": "Love, Judgment, and Correction",
  "severity": "3",
  "summary": "Empathy becomes idolatrous when feeling with someone becomes higher than judging by Scripture. Christ sympathizes without endorsing sin.",
  "diagnosis": "The moral center is not human pain by itself, but God's truth applied with mercy to real persons.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Heb 4:15-16",
    "John 7:24",
    "1 Cor 13:6",
    "Phil 1:9-10",
    "Prov 14:12"
  ],
  "key_terms": [
    "sympatheo [sympathize]",
    "epignosis [full knowledge]",
    "aisthesis [discernment]",
    "aletheia [truth]"
  ],
  "related_slugs": [
    "judge-not-lest-you-be-judged",
    "love-homosexuals-do-not-challenge-them",
    "unconditional-love",
    "must-be-nice-as-a-christian",
    "protect-sinners-and-believers-from-offensive-truth",
    "confusing-boldness-with-fleshly-harshness"
  ],
  "translation_tooltips": "NET Bible local tooltip data",
  "status": "published_package_draft"
}