Your statement is not scriptural. What does the state do when someone breaks a law? Did you allow your children to run wild Scott or did you discipline them? What does Scripture say about wrongdoing Scott? Some behaviors are so bad that sometimes a person needs to feel the negative effects of what they're doing in order to try to get them to change their behavior. Judgment begins in the House of God...
If you "normalize" Willie's behavior then you have a serious problem. It's distinctly un-christian and out of place on a Christian site and it's really telling if you try to "normalize" it just because you have a bone to pick because you wholly support Trump and I don't. That's wrong and something is wrong within your own heart if you condone Willie's evil. You're just encouraging him to commit more evil. I've talked to at least two people by pm who Willie had harassed. I spoke with a third person on here who said that he's mean. I hope that you search your own heart Scott. You captured my words before I had the chance to delete them. After I posted that I didn't feel right and came back and changed my post because I don't want to be mean. I sincerely hope that Willie changes because he has something wrong within him and he refuses to face it.
And just because you are not informed about something doesn't make you right and me wrong. Think about it.
I had a friend who was involved in something and I learned how those involved in satanism communicate using hand signs. I was with this person one time and saw it with my own eyes. It's done surreptitiously but I happened to turn around and caught them flashing a hand sign to a man dressed in black at the mall. God allowed me to see it and now later when I began looking into why all these things were happening in the world I read that Freemasons communicate with hand signs. Freemasons and Satanists are similar in their worship of Belial. I would say it's a coincidence if a few people were caught doing it but
every world leader throws the same hand signs including Hollywood actors and actresses.
Scripture tells us to expose evil.
Ephesians 5:11
“And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove
them.”
I may be wrong but I don't think so. These people had Kennedy killed by his driver - and if you've ever worked or know someone who works with top secret information there is a dive into that person's background. They don't pick just anyone to drive the President. I read that they have their own people in the top offices of government, education, media, churches. When you see just how integrated they've become then you'd see that an independent has no chance whatsoever of getting into a top position. You can look online and find the video where Trump admits he's a Freemason - I believe his father was if I'm not mistaken. Take a few hours to look into what they're about. I read that he's likely a 33rd degree - which is high.
I am not the only Christian who knows something isn't right about Trump - you'll see that if you do a search online. That being said, I still vote all R but I think I'll vote Independent for President - but I don't think our votes count anymore. The elite pick both sides I believe just like they fund both sides of wars.
Sometimes I've reached the point where I realize that some people don't really want the truth or they just lack the insight, intelligence, or savvy to grasp what is before their eyes. It's like trying to talk about spiritual things with someone who has no spiritual eyes to see - they've not been spiritually regenerated. To try to continue to talk to them about spiritual rebirth when they're laughing at you and calling you naive, a fool, or a dreamer - you see that it's futile. Christ tells us to shake the dust off your feet. In cases of it being people you happen to care about you walk away and pray for them - that God will bring them to the truth. The point being is that the person has to remain in their lies or delusion until God sees fit to bring them out of it.
I saw that a family who owned a church we attended were corrupt - I picked up undercurrents and never took to them. There were other Christians who swallowed their facade hook line and sinker. I tried telling someone about them and was I was vilified. I began to doubt myself but I never liked them. So just as my instincts - or the Holy Spirit - had forewarned me that corrupt family cheated a family member. The pastor called us over to his house and told us an earful. I learned to respect that 'still, small, voice' that made me uneasy about someone. I learned not to trust
others' perceptions and it steeled me to accept the abuse that comes with the territory. Not that I always discount others' perceptions; I listen and pray and still go by that gut feeling.
When I was in high school I had a friend who became a Christian. She had been riding her bike and a man grabbed her and choked her when she tried to get away. Luckily she escaped. I think it was the impetus for her turning to God. My other friend and I ridiculed her. We didn't have eyes to see back then. Years later now look at me - I'm the one talking about God and being ridiculed by the unregenerated.
I'll leave you with this quote:
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
And these Scripture verses regarding Willie. By you condoning his sin - and it IS sin - you are yourself sinning. I've watched carefully as Willie pulls others into sin and instigates and stirs others up to join in his sin. I warn you Scott to be careful to not give 'approval' to one who practices sin.
Romans 1:28-32 ESV
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but
give approval to those who practice them.
2 Thessalonians 3:14-15 ESV
If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.
Willie has been warned as a brother. You have been warned as a brother.