Okay..in backing what I said with scripture.
In 1 Cor We see Paul addressing The church in a letter...he greets them all as christians ..then in Chap 3 he is speak not so glowingly to them..
"3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ."
Then by chap 5 he says:-
" It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife..." hmmm
Then as we continue reading he says- " throw the guy out.."
Yet we see in his second letter to them...2 Cor 2 after his initial greeting.. Paul speaks much softer .. saying..." For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you...
6 "Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.
Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him.
.... To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. "
Punished and reproved yes...condemned to hell NO!
( this is why I cannot believe the teaching that God sends everyone who doesn't toe the line, to hell forever.)
