Randy Kluth
Well-Known Member
Perfection is about striving to obey the Commandments. Stumbling is part of the process. You can't stumble when you carry the attitude that it's impossible to be perfect as God has commanded.
One of the main purposes of the Holy Spirit is to assist us to obey God's Commandments.
Those who discourage, and complain about, others keeping the Commandments will never come close to following Jesus properly. Being a Christian (follower of Christ) is a specific attitude and an active faith that we can, and should strive to, do what God expects of us.
If you love Jesus at all, you would rather fall just shy of the mark than to not even give an effort and to go around discouraging anybody else from trying at all. From my reading of Scripture, God sees those Christians as more wicked than those who don't even know a thing about Him.
We must sanctify ourselves from the negative attitudes of the world.
Speaking the truth from the apostles and from the Bible is *not* discouraging people from following the ways of Christ. It is doing what Jesus did, namely assuring us that God understands and places only a "light burden" on us. Why is saying that an attempt at discouraging people from living right?