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While God loves Israel and chases after her relentlessly, Israel is unfaithful and falls back into old patterns… even after being offered safety and deliverance. God instructed Hosea to marry a prostitute in order to parallel his relationship with Israel. But Hosea’s love toward Gomer is unconditional, and he goes time and again to bring her home. But her old way of life calls her back, and she leaves him. Many years ago God instructed Hosea to marry a prostitute named Gomer. The basic premise of Redeeming Love is based on the biblical story of Hosea. The story exposes it by creatively re-telling the biblical story of Hosea - there’s a reason why God himself chose to use the story of a prostitute to create a powerful metaphor. But, I think there’s a huge difference between condoning sexual immorality and exposing sexual immorality. I read a few harsh comments on another Christian blog saying that the film was “leading lambs to the slaughter” by containing such heavy sexual content. It is not free of sex scenes (although the only sex scenes it contains are between a consenting husband and wife) It is not appropriate for the whole family

What the film is notīefore heading into the details of the story, I want to take a moment to establish what the film is NOT: If these topics are triggering to you, please be cautious and guard your heart before diving in too deeply. Trigger Warning: Redeeming Love is a story that involves heavy sexual and physical abuse. Watching the trailer for the third time convinced me that the story would be powerful, even if the original message became muddied. Questions like these ran through my head: Will the movie do the story justice? The book was very graphic… how are they going to communicate the seriousness of Angel’s sexual abuse without an R rating? Will the parallels to Christ’s unconditional, unshakable love for us come across through the movie as strongly as it did with the book? With that excitement also came a great deal of hesitation. Now, I’m not going to lie… my inner 15-year-old self was jumping for joy at the mere fact that one of my all time favorite books actually became a movie. This past weekend my husband and I went to go see the movie Redeeming Love.