L.A.M.B., we've ALWAYS been like this. Look at the original Jewish Christians insisting that Gentile converts who worship their God need to keep kosher, take Saturdays off, and cut their foreskins off, while the Gentile converts thought their widows were being treated like second-class citizens. How about the Corinthians splitting into Apollos and Paul denominations? Hey, Paul and Barnabas had such a dust-up that they couldn't work together. Or Peter, Jesus's best buddy, wouldn't even eat with those Gentiles, and Paul called him out publicly. Aren't you glad the Bible shows us as we really are, warts and all? Later in Church history, you'd get the Nicene controversies, the Catholic/Protestant split....
The only thing I can do about it is resolve that the nastiness stops right here, right now, with me.
Yes, it has always been so past the first disciples that actually walked with Jesus.
I am trying to get others to see this point also @Lambano just as you've said it starts with me......thank you for seeing.
We are none of us right and IT IS NOT A QUESTION then of who is wrong either. IT IS A PERSONAL QUESTION OF HOW I MIGHT RIGHTLY FOLLOW GOD IN ALL HE SAYS, LIVE BY HIS PRECEPTS, AND MAKE BEING ONE WITH HIM MY ...GOAL !
If I have to stand toe to toe and offend to break down that encrusted barrier to get ppl to see TRUTH in his word then so be it.
Time is of the essence, this is life and death and the curtain is about to come down on all we think we know.