What an OP!
Can any good really come from such a judgment of others, while appointing ones self as its author to a pedestal that posting evidence does not sustain?
How many people here read how many other people here proclaim publicly for all to read praise for one or more of us, while openly stating they don't read others due to this or that judgment of them? As if those to whom they refer are to naturally infer whom among us are the ignored one's, unfit by that one levying judgment, to be read by that judge.
Why not just set people we choose not to read to our Ignore list and be done with it? Why do certain ones among us feel the need to openly state they approve some, while disrespect others. And think they are self-righteous in the process rather than exhibiting the sin of pride and arrogance.
I tell people I won't read anymore that I won't be reading them again. One and done. Many I've taken off my Ignore list. I just scroll by when I see their screen name.
And who is anyone here to set themselves on a pedestal and proclaim, they know the right Christ and others they judge don't?
Pride, arrogance, and egocentricity.
It's a relationship with the greatest power in all creation. Do we think we have to have a cookie cutter mutual accord in order to be judged by one another as being, 'right with Christ'?
My relationship with Jesus has to meet certain criteria of someone else who thinks themselves entitled to judge me by their idea of their relationship with Christ?
Judge not lest ye be judged.
How many forget the rest of that from Matthew 7?
What is the OP? But that which tells all of us, the OP authors belief in their way of seeing God makes them feel fit to tell certain of us whom they know alone we do not meet his/her criteria as being "truly in Christ".
It's an amazing thing to first believe we can capture the mind of God between the covers of a book. And those words contained therein are all God has to say for eternity. It is quite another for those in Christ, or who think they are, again keeping with the tenor of the OP, to take those printed words and then add more to them in forums wherein their meaning is debated on a personal level of understanding them.
Here's a question.
Which came first?
The Book?
Or its author?
The first faith? Believing it true when men told us the Bible they compiled over centuries from the writings of other men were actually words inspired by God to be written.
Think of how many versions there are. How many scrolls, papyri, etc... were not allowed to be judged worthy of inclusion in the "canon of scripture" and how many scrolls, papyri since the canonization have been discovered and that contain materials related to what is already there.
The Bible is a road map, a treasure map really, to find the power that is innate in all creation; God.
However, imo, if you believe in the Bible first, you've already lost your way.
GOD, speaks to us always in all ways. Use the road map, cherish it, learn from it. Yet consider this. God is behind the parables, simile's, metaphors, allegory.
In the beginning....our faith was considered a mystery tradition. Because one had to be initiated into understanding, unlocking, the language of, The Way.
Today, we believe because we read it and personally think we have understanding of it, we can treat one another badly in defending it.
That's a parable in itself.
Don't you think?