Therefore I propose to examine Jesus' character and emotions to learn how to interpret and apply what Jesus says. The way I suggest doing this is to dig through the Gospels and look at how Jesus relates to different people. Once we get a more firm picture of Jesus' compassion, His mercy, His clean anger, His intensity, His patience and other character attributes ... then we are in a more healthy position to evaluate what He says. The difficulty is building a comprehensive picture of Jesus' character and emotions. It is easy to build a lop-sided view of Jesus as if He were only or excessively compassionate. Or draw a picture of Jesus that was only angry and intense. The liberal left in the Church want to portray Jesus as excessively compassionate without balancing it with Jesus' anger at evil or His justice. The extreme right in the Church want to portray Jesus as excessively angry or intense without remembering His tenderness or compassion or patience. Both of these extremes are heresy. That is a pretty strong word but it is true. C.S. Lewis often comments that Satan loves to get us to one of the 2 poles of extremes. We can be easily defeated in these positions. We need a healthy Biblical picture of Jesus that holds in tension His compassion and anger, His mercy and judgement and His other attributes. Then we have a clear less-distorted picture of Jesus... who is the very image of the invisible God! ("If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father!" - John 14:9)