Petros wrote:Simply as a reminder and entirely without fingerpointing, this from the Desert Fasthers:
When one holy man saw someone sinning, he wept, saying "He today, I tomorrow." However grave the sin you notice, do not judge the culprit, but belierve yourself a worse sinner.
Which of course [petros speaking, not the Fathers] applies to judging those who judge. And so on.
I see no judging being done in the responses , just Biblical truth. If the Bible condemns the sin , then that settles it , I for one have heard for many years "lack of love " and "judge not lest...." used as a counter argument / justification for ones sin .
Jesus Christ died to pay the penalty for our sins and to cleanse us from our sin , not to allow us to continue in sin.
To point out the errors / sins of another is not incorrect , being self righteous , or legalistic .
Are we not to warn the wicked ?
Ezekiel 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 3:19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
Ezekiel 33:8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 33:9 Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
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