We were all once sinners before we came to Christ. While we were yet without strength Christ died for the ungodly. We certainly should not be unequally yoked with the unbelieving and sinners and agree or join in with them......however we are to show them the same love and mercy that Christ showed to us when we were yet in our sins. Love the sinner, hate their sins.
Rom 5:8
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Or are you suggesting we should judge/condemn them as you appear to be doing? The Lord still saves sinners and rescues them out of the mud and mire. But you don't understand salvation since you think it is a ritual.
You’re pushing a warped “love everyone” narrative that crumbles under scrutiny.
Let’s start with John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The key is “whoever believes in Him.” Salvation is for those who believe in Christ, not every unrepentant rejector of Him.
John 3:18–20 and 3:36 (NIV) make it crystal clear: “Whoever does not believe stands condemned already” and “whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on them.” God’s love in John 3:16 is an offer of salvation to a fallen world, but those who spurn Christ stay under His wrath.
So how do you leap from this to claiming Jesus teaches us to love:
- Criminals: pedophiles, murderers, rapists, thieves, swindlers…
- Military enemies
- Satanists: sorcerers, witches, devil-worshippers
Jesus Himself gives an exception, even for personal enemies. In Matthew 18:15–17 (NIV), He says if a brother sins against you and refuses to repent, even after church intervention, “treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.”
Tax collectors, though Jewish, were Roman collaborators, despised as outsiders—not personal enemies.
Jesus explicitly allows treating an unrepentant believer as an outsider, not requiring love or kindness.
How did Jesus’ Jewish contemporaries understand this? They loathed Roman pagans and tax-collecting collaborators (Matthew 9:11, Luke 19:7). If Jesus says to treat even an unrepentant brother like a pagan or tax collector, what does that say about loving:
- Criminals: pedophiles, murderers, rapists, thieves, swindlers…
- Military enemies
- Satanists: sorcerers, witches, devil-worshippers
If even a sinning brother gets cut off, why would Jesus demand love for those under God’s wrath?
Your logic is absurd, cherry-picking verses to coddle God’s enemies.