Listen, I know that you mean well, but you are missing the point entirely. What is love? Is it trivializing and dismissing the things that people have gone thrugh, telling them to just get Jesus and get over it? It isn't that simple, and you talking like that is NOT showing compassion and love. It is saying "I don't care how you feel. Just get over it. By the way Jesus loves you"
You have absolutely ZERO concept of what cult abuse does to children. What happens when all a child knows for the first decade of their life is that "Love" means having sex, and the person that tells them that calls themself "Jesus". And that telling is a sin. And that sinners die and go to hell. And if you are bad, your pet will be killed to. And maybe your baby brother too. That is all that child knows - terror. There is no place to escape and no safe people.
Would you go up to that child and start telling them they have to love Jesus or else they are going to hell? Think about how that child would hear it. Remember - they have NO concept of the "real" Jesus. Just telling them that the other one was really the devil isn't going to help. Just telling them that Jesus is really a good guy isn't going to help.
They have had years and years being shown and learning the opposite. They also need to be SHOWN the opposite over and over again. Not just told. This isn't something that just goes away by saying a little prayer. I have Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality). The damage runs deeper than you know. I can rationalize all the words you just said, but there are parts of me who cannot. They are still terrified of Jesus. Terrified.
You can sit there all day and say "well thats a lie get that lie out of your head and believe Jesus loves you before it is too late. I don't want you to go to hell". But I have to tell you that saying those words without compassion of any kind is just plain cruel. Did the real Jesus just preach about goodness, or did he practice it as well?
