Hugging the opposite gender in church?

[montanezrf]

I bet Jesus hugged men and women......

With brotherly love, do you have scripture about JESUS kissing or hugging women?
Shomer Negiah was the norm in those days. No touching/ kissing between opposite genders. Only for healing purposes, or the woman in repentance could touch/kiss JESUS feet.

 

[rocknanchor]

With brotherly love, ,"

Glad to see you 'montanezrf' and welcome to the forums!

", , do you have scripture about JESUS kissing or hugging women?

If the Spirit's voice cannot be extracted to support a thought or position, but self-defining with others, we must assume everything He said concerning "pure" (Matthew 5:8) is to be included, just as He himself walked in "fervent love" while on earth (1 Peter 1:22). Now you raised an interesting question specific to the thread. And since He always pleased the Father, as He walked in the Spirit, but also mingled with the disreputable of this world, could also with that "natural affection" (2 Timothy 3:3), have discerned whether to resist impurity, OR, as you said, accept (Luke 7:38) the affectionate touch of purity?

For an actual citation such as times to console bereavement for instance (James 1:27), you are right, but again, we would have to remain in question of ourselves before the Father that He never participated in these many pivotal instances such as seen in this sister's post.