He wasn't using below the belt middle school humor to be mean and uncompassionate to the Judaizers/Legalists. Paul knows that they know the law, and that the law says that any man who's genitals have been crushed or cut off is not allowed into the Assembly.....
No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD. Deuteronomy 23:1
He knows by their own law that if the circumcisers would go the whole way and cut off their penises (Galatians 5:12) they would be required by the law that they say must be followed to be cut off from the Assembly. And so their Judaistic, leavening influence in the church would end. So stop using Paul's words as an excuse to be mean and uncompasstionate toward legalists. Their influence in the church must end. But we are still to love them. Legalists are people too, you know. People Christ died for.
Christ also died for Hitler.....you want me to “ love “ him also? Legalist “ Fall From Grace”..... some teachers out there smarter than you or I say that means you are Damned.....maybe so, maybe not.....the jury is “out” on that one....
One thing the Jury is NOT “ out” on is this: If you “PREACH” a False, Perverted Gospel That says one must ADD to the Gospel Of Grace in violation of 1Cor15:1-4 to be Saved—you are “ Accursed” .........that’s just a polite way to say you are going to Hell....
Legalist, at the very LEAST “shipwreck” the Faith Of many....especially Newbies who are vulnerable to lousy , Confused Teaching.They Rob people Of their Assurance and Joy......and if “ Falling from Grace” means Damnation....You really got a Problem , don’t you? Go ahead and “love” those that could very well be going to Hell and taking countless others with them because in their Hearts , they really don’t Believe the Gospel That could have saved them.....that first half Of the Gospel..... That part that says “ Jesus died for your Sins?” .....they don’t believe it and they don’t allow others to believe.....
God does not love Tares.....He’s gonna have His Angels gather them up some day and “ lovingly” send them to Hell......I can’t “MAKE” myself Love Tares and/or Legalists ...
If that turns out to be a sin, I’ll do the same thing with that sin that God does—- put it on the Cross and “Remember it no more”.....
If you are correct in loving them and I am not, perhaps it’s just a case of you being a better Christian than me....just about anyone can accomplish “that”...... I can live with it....