I tried telling that to a few people over the last few years who tried to claim that God told them it's ok for men to marry men and women to marry women, and their pastor said it was ok. They couldn't stand when i made it clear that there's nowhere in the Holy Bible that says that's ok, and multiple places that says it's not ok. They lost it. Blind have lead the blind.
If 2 gay men are married and they are also Christian and live great positive lives, more so than most others on this planet... will they still go to hell for eternity without a chance of redemption?
First if all, a true Christian is repentant if sin (sexual immorality is sin) so they aren’t true Christians if they are gay. God condemns all sin. So lest they repent if their evil deeds, they will reap their just rewards and will not see the kingdom of heaven.
Galations 5:19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Members of Christ
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, 10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 1:27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Leviticus 20:10-21 Punishments for Sexual Immorality
(Proverbs 5:1–23; 1 Corinthians 5:1–8)
10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
11If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
12If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.
13If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
14If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
15If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.
16If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
17If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations,c it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
18If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her,d he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.
19You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
20If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.
So even if they lived the best lives possible, saved many many people from evil, torture and death, they would still be sent to hell because they love each other and both have a penis?
Dude, you flat out asked a question with a hypothetical scenario, asking what the Word of God says about it. u/Callmejuls straight up gives you exactly what the Word of God (aka the Bible) says, and you accuse her of being "dogmatic." Anal sex is disgusting and depraved. The Bible says that people who engage in such depravity will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. That's not the answer you are looking for, so why bother asking the question?
It is not me who turns away people, it is the rejection of God’s word and the demonic strongholds which has them under Satan’s control. They have no desire to turn away from sin and surrender completely to God and this find TRUTH and the word of God offeensive, however this thinking leads directly to an eternal lake of fire in hell.
Jeremiah 6:10 To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
Jeremiah 19:15” This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’”
2 Peter 3:5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
Jeremiah 23:36 But you must not mention ‘a message from the LORD’ again, because each one’s word becomes their own message. So you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.
Amos 8:11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
This is where I long to be, not hell.
Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Homosexuality is sin, but because Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world, the only sin anyone can go to hell for is refusing to believe in the name of the only Son of God, Jesus Christ.
John 3:16-18 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
Every believer will always have sin in their lives to some extent.
1 John 1:8 "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us."
But, the better job we do of putting to death the sin in our lives:
The less Fatherly discipline God needs to give us on Earth. (see 1 Corinthians)
The more useful we will be to Christ on Earth, and thus the greater our treasure in heaven, that we will enjoy for all eternity will be.
Matthew 5:19 "Therefore, whoever nullifies one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
The only difference with God is sin that leads to death and sin that doesn’t lead to death.
1 John 5:16, 17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death. 17)If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that.
Romans 8:2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 6:16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
And we cannot speak for God, just be guided by the word. The sins of the Old Testament, are not the same in the New. We can eat a cheeseburger, cook on the Sabbath, and women can wear jeans. Our human nature is the one we struggle with, as we become more spiritual. The human nature can lead us to the sins of Lust, Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Avarice, Envy. There are degrees of those, but it is not up to us to say which one is worse, or when the line is crossed, suffice it to say that we all struggle with it, and that Christ knew this, and sacrificed himself so that we could start over. We are allowed to repent and sin no more, but it takes self reflection and guidance to break it down, taking our own inventory. Adultery is a sin in the old testament, in the New, Jesus tells the woman to go and sin no more, but his admonition to those condemning her was the point of that parable. There was one perfect man without sin, and he was crucified.
At the beginning there you meentioned some things that were law (which the Pharisees were big on) then Jesus brought grace
then you got into actual sin
This is the part where I and religion diverge…. As a believer in christ my lord…. I put 0% faith in a book, we are told to believe is the word of christ, yet the oldest version of the bible (codex sinaiticus written/dating 400ad) is said the be the accurate word of christ…. And that bible (now king james) has over 30 renditions…. Edited by the very pedophiles in the vatican….Yeah, i’ll pass on the stories in the bible
How can tou claim ti believe in Christ yet deny His word? How can you kniw what He said to do or believe or what to reject or accept if you do ‘t believe His wors? How can you say the Bible was retranslated by pedophiles when then Bible quite specifically condemns sexual immorality of all kinds? Have you ever actually read a Bible?
You’ve essentially answered my point… i agree with you that i dont know if the word in the bible is jehosua’s , however, we dont know if it truly is… i believe the words and the message of love thy neighbor and the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who believe is true…. However being that the oldest known new testament dates to only around ~425, how do we know that his words are accurate in the bible, especially as they were passed down generationally as stories, until written out in a book…. And yes, the vatican scholars are in charge of interpretation of the book, and we all know about the vatican and how compromised they are….
First off, the Vatican is catholic and doesn’t speak for everybody. Secondly for the last 2000 yeaes since the Bible was written, it’s the inly book that has been translated to nearly every language un the world without changing it’s meaning, the only book that many countries have tried to bam, eliminate, destroy, burn etc and have not been able to. Without knowung what the Bible says, how will/do you know what God says to do or not do, what He approves or disapproves of, what He commands us to do or that He gives us grace through faith in His son Jesus and forgives us when we repent of sin and that He wamts a personal relationship with each of us?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
For Acts you may substitute the word "Bibles" in the place of "temples" God is Love. The Spirit of God is a Holy Spirit of Love. 1 Corinthians 13 Love. The point being is that you, Callmejuls, are not God and are not exhibiting a Christ spirit of Love according to the written word of God. The written word is for you to learn and discern and hold in Your Heart, it is not for You to use as a tool of judgement.
Luke 6:42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Christ dwells within us, written in our very DNA, that allows us to intercede and communicate with God. Judgement and vengeance is for God. Jesus was sent as the example of walking the talk. You have been instructed on the fruits of the Spirit according to Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. If your postings are divisive and judgmental out of hand, while insisting you are "following God's Word" you can see why there is push back.
Consider whether your post is in sync with the Fruits of the Spirit before hitting that SAVE button is all. Do not become a "resounding gong". Not cool.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
If you are referring to either this post or my comments in it, we are told in;
Matthew 18:15-18 A Brother Who Sins
(Deuteronomy 19:15–21)
15If your brother sins against you,c go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’d 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Ezekiel 3:16-21 A Watchman for Israel
16At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
18If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity,c and I will hold you responsible for his blood. 19But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
20Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin,d and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood. 21But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
So then, if I do not confront a sinful brother, I am not acting in love if I allow him to die in sin without first attempting to reach him and save him.
Please point me to where I have been displaying judgement without merit or not displaying the Holy Spirit’s love so that I can work on it and do better because all I want everyone to see is Jesus when they see me. I don’t want eyes on me but on God. What did I say that was divisive? I will work in it.
I tried telling that to a few people over the last few years who tried to claim that God told them it's ok for men to marry men and women to marry women, and their pastor said it was ok. They couldn't stand when i made it clear that there's nowhere in the Holy Bible that says that's ok, and multiple places that says it's not ok. They lost it. Blind have lead the blind.
Straight into hell they lead them
If 2 gay men are married and they are also Christian and live great positive lives, more so than most others on this planet... will they still go to hell for eternity without a chance of redemption?
Can't be Christian and gay so the question is invalid
Change your name to unstable genius. You have the same way of thinking as the extreme left.
I could explain it to you if you'd like?
Ask God.
I'm asking the people here who say they know the word of God.
First if all, a true Christian is repentant if sin (sexual immorality is sin) so they aren’t true Christians if they are gay. God condemns all sin. So lest they repent if their evil deeds, they will reap their just rewards and will not see the kingdom of heaven.
Galations 5:19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery;
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Members of Christ 9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, 10nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Romans 1:27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Leviticus 20:10-21 Punishments for Sexual Immorality (Proverbs 5:1–23; 1 Corinthians 5:1–8) 10If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress must surely be put to death.
11If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness. Both must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
12If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.
13If a man lies with a man as with a woman, they have both committed an abomination. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
14If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
15If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.
16If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
17If a man marries his sister, whether the daughter of his father or of his mother, and they have sexual relations,c it is a disgrace. They must be cut off in the sight of their people. He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister; he shall bear his iniquity.
18If a man lies with a menstruating woman and has sexual relations with her,d he has exposed the source of her flow, and she has uncovered the source of her blood. Both of them must be cut off from among their people.
19You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.
20If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered the nakedness of his uncle. They will bear their sin; they shall die childless.
21If a man marries his brother’s wife, it is an act of impurity. He has uncovered the nakedness of his brother; they shall be childless.
So even if they lived the best lives possible, saved many many people from evil, torture and death, they would still be sent to hell because they love each other and both have a penis?
They are disobedient to God if they are living in sin and do not repent and turn away from sin and live for God.
Dogmatic Christians like you turn many people into atheists. Please stop being so dogmatic.
Dude, you flat out asked a question with a hypothetical scenario, asking what the Word of God says about it. u/Callmejuls straight up gives you exactly what the Word of God (aka the Bible) says, and you accuse her of being "dogmatic." Anal sex is disgusting and depraved. The Bible says that people who engage in such depravity will not inherit the Kingdom of Heaven. That's not the answer you are looking for, so why bother asking the question?
It is not me who turns away people, it is the rejection of God’s word and the demonic strongholds which has them under Satan’s control. They have no desire to turn away from sin and surrender completely to God and this find TRUTH and the word of God offeensive, however this thinking leads directly to an eternal lake of fire in hell.
Jeremiah 6:10 To whom can I speak and give warning? Who will listen to me? Their ears are closed so they cannot hear. The word of the LORD is offensive to them; they find no pleasure in it.
Jeremiah 19:15” This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: ‘Listen! I am going to bring on this city and all the villages around it every disaster I pronounced against them, because they were stiff-necked and would not listen to my words.’”
2 Peter 3:5 But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.
Jeremiah 23:36 But you must not mention ‘a message from the LORD’ again, because each one’s word becomes their own message. So you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.
Amos 8:11 “The days are coming,” declares the Sovereign LORD, “when I will send a famine through the land— not a famine of food or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.
This is where I long to be, not hell.
Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Quite a paradox. God will sort it out.
That's a non-answer. Try again.
It's a paradox. What part of that do you not understand?
Homosexuality is sin, but because Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world, the only sin anyone can go to hell for is refusing to believe in the name of the only Son of God, Jesus Christ.
John 3:16-18 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him. The one who believes in Him is not judged; the one who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God."
Every believer will always have sin in their lives to some extent.
1 John 1:8 "If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us."
But, the better job we do of putting to death the sin in our lives:
Matthew 5:19 "Therefore, whoever nullifies one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Link to full chaper:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206&version=KJV
C.S.Lewis in the Screwtape book said "The human notion that "I am my own man" is equally funny in Hell and in Heaven".
Great book
James 4:17 KJV
Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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This verse is one of the most frightening verses in the Bible. This is why many claim they are ignorant but it will not work.
This one verse takes out the whole rainbow religion claiming they are of God and shows us who their god truly is.
Amen
Goes for every aspect of God's Word. People love ton cherry pick. GOD called it having form of Godliness but denying the power thereof.
2 things:
Why is this thumbnail blurred in the feed?
We like to think of bad deeds as existing on a hierarchy, but if sin is sin, then one is not "better" than another because we perceive it to be so.
With that said, "All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God", myself included. I need grace every single day.
The only difference with God is sin that leads to death and sin that doesn’t lead to death.
1 John 5:16, 17 All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death. 17)If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that.
Romans 8:2 because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 6:16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?
And we cannot speak for God, just be guided by the word. The sins of the Old Testament, are not the same in the New. We can eat a cheeseburger, cook on the Sabbath, and women can wear jeans. Our human nature is the one we struggle with, as we become more spiritual. The human nature can lead us to the sins of Lust, Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth, Avarice, Envy. There are degrees of those, but it is not up to us to say which one is worse, or when the line is crossed, suffice it to say that we all struggle with it, and that Christ knew this, and sacrificed himself so that we could start over. We are allowed to repent and sin no more, but it takes self reflection and guidance to break it down, taking our own inventory. Adultery is a sin in the old testament, in the New, Jesus tells the woman to go and sin no more, but his admonition to those condemning her was the point of that parable. There was one perfect man without sin, and he was crucified.
At the beginning there you meentioned some things that were law (which the Pharisees were big on) then Jesus brought grace then you got into actual sin
Lol
This is the part where I and religion diverge…. As a believer in christ my lord…. I put 0% faith in a book, we are told to believe is the word of christ, yet the oldest version of the bible (codex sinaiticus written/dating 400ad) is said the be the accurate word of christ…. And that bible (now king james) has over 30 renditions…. Edited by the very pedophiles in the vatican….Yeah, i’ll pass on the stories in the bible
The Septuagint is 300 BC. it predicts Christ.
How can tou claim ti believe in Christ yet deny His word? How can you kniw what He said to do or believe or what to reject or accept if you do ‘t believe His wors? How can you say the Bible was retranslated by pedophiles when then Bible quite specifically condemns sexual immorality of all kinds? Have you ever actually read a Bible?
You’ve essentially answered my point… i agree with you that i dont know if the word in the bible is jehosua’s , however, we dont know if it truly is… i believe the words and the message of love thy neighbor and the kingdom of heaven belongs to those who believe is true…. However being that the oldest known new testament dates to only around ~425, how do we know that his words are accurate in the bible, especially as they were passed down generationally as stories, until written out in a book…. And yes, the vatican scholars are in charge of interpretation of the book, and we all know about the vatican and how compromised they are….
First off, the Vatican is catholic and doesn’t speak for everybody. Secondly for the last 2000 yeaes since the Bible was written, it’s the inly book that has been translated to nearly every language un the world without changing it’s meaning, the only book that many countries have tried to bam, eliminate, destroy, burn etc and have not been able to. Without knowung what the Bible says, how will/do you know what God says to do or not do, what He approves or disapproves of, what He commands us to do or that He gives us grace through faith in His son Jesus and forgives us when we repent of sin and that He wamts a personal relationship with each of us?
Christianity entails know God’s word and doing what He says
Gods word, doesnt come from a book…. But comes from him, within all of us !!!
Can you source that in the Bible?
1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Romans 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Acts 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
For Acts you may substitute the word "Bibles" in the place of "temples" God is Love. The Spirit of God is a Holy Spirit of Love. 1 Corinthians 13 Love. The point being is that you, Callmejuls, are not God and are not exhibiting a Christ spirit of Love according to the written word of God. The written word is for you to learn and discern and hold in Your Heart, it is not for You to use as a tool of judgement.
Luke 6:42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Christ dwells within us, written in our very DNA, that allows us to intercede and communicate with God. Judgement and vengeance is for God. Jesus was sent as the example of walking the talk. You have been instructed on the fruits of the Spirit according to Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. If your postings are divisive and judgmental out of hand, while insisting you are "following God's Word" you can see why there is push back.
Consider whether your post is in sync with the Fruits of the Spirit before hitting that SAVE button is all. Do not become a "resounding gong". Not cool.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
If you are referring to either this post or my comments in it, we are told in; Matthew 18:15-18 A Brother Who Sins (Deuteronomy 19:15–21) 15If your brother sins against you,c go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over. 16But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’d 17If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
18Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Ezekiel 3:16-21 A Watchman for Israel 16At the end of seven days the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 17“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
18If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity,c and I will hold you responsible for his blood. 19But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
20Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin,d and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood. 21But if you warn the righteous man not to sin, and he does not sin, he will indeed live because he heeded your warning, and you will have saved yourself.”
So then, if I do not confront a sinful brother, I am not acting in love if I allow him to die in sin without first attempting to reach him and save him.
Please point me to where I have been displaying judgement without merit or not displaying the Holy Spirit’s love so that I can work on it and do better because all I want everyone to see is Jesus when they see me. I don’t want eyes on me but on God. What did I say that was divisive? I will work in it.
How is this a reply to what he said?
The message is always more important than the messenger.