You betcha when hypocrisy is involved! Vitriol is not the way of Christ. When one denom calls down fire and brimstone on another denom, non-Christians dismiss our call to love as something we do not even truly believe in practice.
I have a simple question .
A few actually .
How would paul have been viewed by todays people .
The man blinded one who was trying to turn the deputy away FROM THE FAITH .
SO how come many embrace so many who do so today .
How would paul have been seen by todays peoples
in his dire warnings to the church of cornith and others .
OR how he said GET THAT MAN OUT OF THE CHURCH , DELIVER that man over unto satan
so that destruction of the flesh could occur and the soul be saved in the day of the LORD .
DO notice it actually worked cause that caused that man to be led to repentance .
HOW would paul have been seen by todays lovey do dont judge all inclusive correct not generation
WHEN he said I DELIVERED hymenaus and alexander OVER UNTO SATAN so
they could LEARN NOT to blaspheme .
and yet we got those in camps WHO DO BLASPHEME and yet , its HUG ALL , ACCEPT ALL
GET ALONG and just have unity .
How would paul have been seen when he wrote to titus
REBUKE THEM SHARPLY , SHARPLY that they may be sound in the FAITH .
OR to timothy Rebuke those who SIN before all that others may also fear .
Lets try and reread that with todays inclusive hug all mindset .
TODAY what paul said to timothy would sound like this .
THOSE WHO SIN , OH DONT YOU DARE JUDGE OR CORRECT heck we all sin .
OR to titus it would have been , OH DONT JUDGE , it dont matter what one beleives , they dont have to be sound in faith
WE GOT A PROBLEM PARD . But it aint my problem cause i refuse and refuse bodly to STOP CORRECTING .
wish others would cause the church would have been in a far better place and not rather FALLEN into its current state of decay .