Proof that if you are white they care NOTHING about you
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It's a tall order my friend. C,S, Lewis points out in Mere Christianity:
Some of us who seem quite nice people may, in fact, have made so little use of a good heredity and a good upbringing that we are really worse than those whom we regard as fiends. Can we be quite certain how we should have behaved if we had been saddled with the psychological outfit, and then with the bad upbringing, and then with the power, say, of Himmler? That is why Christians are told not to judge.
We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it. Most of the man's psychological make-up is probably due to his body: when his body dies all that will fall off him, and the real central man, the thing that chose, that made the best or the worst out of this material, will stand naked. All sorts of nice things which we thought our own, but which were really due to a good digestion, will fall off some of us: all sorts of nasty things which were due to complexes or bad health will fall off others. We shall then, for the first tune, see every one as he really was. There will be surprises.
Who is worse/more guilty:
Person who hates, wishes bad thing upon another yet has no power to bring about his wishes, to make his hate felt. (us)
Person who hates, wishes same bad upon another and has the power to carry out his desires, his wishes. (Himmler)
Well any clear thinking person would see that person #1 and person #2 are equally bad, guilty in God's eyes.
It's not wrong to want, even pray for Justice on the earth. That's why we have judges, and trials and laws. In the Bible the unrepentant are brought to trial in the Great White Throne Judgement at the end of time. They will know why they are judged, as well as be reminded on the times they could have repented but chose not to.
In addition I believe that the commandment to not judge others sins means we are not to just them against our righteousness. I heard a preacher once that I respect say something I tend to agree with, and that is it is only acceptable, and in fact correct for us to judge others sins against the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Christ was without sin.
Being accepting of anything that is scripturally wrong is certainly not a good practice. It's not okay to have open pedophiles in your church. It doesn't mean you can't love them enough to help them to confess their sins and repent, but even then you don't just let them run a Sunday school class or tell everyone in church how they've embraced a pedo lifestyle. Sin is sin, indeed, and even though we all struggle with it, it doesn't mean we get a free pass.
I contemplated what you mean by "open" pedophiles. What I came up with after considering this from a few different angles is that you are using the word "open" to mean "known", known pedophiles. In my mind, the nuance between an open pedophile, and a know pedophile, for the sake of this argument, is the difference between "identifies" and "Identified.
In the context of your comment, in my view an open pedophile would be someone who says "I am sexually attracted to, or derives sexual gratification from fantasies, or acts involving a prepubescent child."
Open Pedophile exist more in the now, the present, in my view than does a Know Pedophile, and a known pedophile could be more of subjectively defined that could open pedophile.
Are you sure it would be okay with you to have someone in the church who openly admits to being sexually attracted children, or openly declares that they derive sexual gratification by fantasizing about acts with a child?
I have to go out and do somethings now, but I wanted to say more. Will try and finish up later.
Interesting.