You don't understand what holiness is or humility. You demand humility from others...you want respect for your person. But as any reader of the bible should know...there is to be no respect of persons in judgment. And this is NOT personal. At least not on my account. I respond to what is being written...clinically and without bias. I discuss ideas.I discuss doctrine. If a person is being dishonest...I will point that out. If a person is claiming things that are not true....I will point that out. I need to pull out the weeds to get at what is worth preserving. You are the one making this personal. I am operating a ministry...as a helper for people...to encourage but also to correct. You only see through an unbroken ego. Of course you don't see that. But look at your own posts...then compare that to the OP.
You entirely missing the point, there were 2 disparaging insulting posts by MC (unclean lips) and when you joined the party, glossing over her insults (instead of correcting her) it became also also an issue for you, a lesson from the OT about real holiness, not our pale reflection of holiness.
This is how REAL holiness looks like, the prophet Isaiah and his encounter with the Lord.
Jes 6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple.
Jes 6:2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
Jes 6:3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
Jes 6:4 And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
Jes 6:5 And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!”
Jes 6:6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from the altar.
Jes 6:7 And he touched my mouth and said: “Behold, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your sin atoned for.”
Unclean lips.
How about that for a warning.
This comes across as a confession. Why can't you see that what you are posting is about you?
Indeed, it's about me, but is it also about you?, also about MC ?
Isa 6:5
And I said: “
Woe is me! For I am lost;
What happened (changed) when you had your encounter with the Lord ?
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Another example great example from the NT, different setting, but it comes down to the same point, in the presence of the Lord no sin is allowed, not the smallest one, the story of Ananias and Sapphira, Acts chapter 4:32 till 5:11, key passages -
Acts 4:34 There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
Acts 5:1 But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet.
Although from 4:34 we can not conclude it was a demand to sacrifice the full price of the sales A&S must have considered it but rejected it, to save for a rainy day or whatever other motive, wanted to be a part anyway, sacrificed partly and death followed.
Acts 5:11 And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.
What a warning, if the presence of the Lord is strong be as meek as possible.
