Moriah did not mean never making a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes, believer or non-believer. But there would be a major difference between really trying to cultivate Christlike love and compassion for ALL (even one's enemies and those one naturally finds detestable) versus assuming just because one has been "saved" oneself means it has suddenly become entirely optional to care about how one treats and deals with those whom one perceives to be "lost" or "straying" or "deceived" or WHATEVER.
Too many seem to think anything goes to force their convictions (and the chains these forge) onto others, to poison them with something falsely labeled the Ultimate Cure, including hijacking the halls of legislature -- meant to serve ALL people NOT just themselves -- to serve their own agendas exclusively and supremely in an oppressive attempt to force the specific behavioral shibboleths of their religion on those who do not subscribe to their religion. But their sadistic cruelties bes not limited to this obvious extreme. They also enact this same attitude of oppression and calloused disregard in a million "little tiny" ways every day with their fellowmen.
Going by all Christ Himself taught, a selfish Christian should be a contradiction in terms. Instead, it seems to be the norm, and these seem to be utterly blind to the true nature of their attitudes and actions in this regard because, once again, they delude themselves that because they supposedly "have the truth", anything goes when it comes to them imagining themselves to be "defending" it. They don't realize that they themselves actually become the aggressors and oppressors they claim everyone else around them to be as part of the make-believe "justification" for becoming that in "self defense". It bes like Peter whipping out his sword to ostensibly "defend" his Lord from being seized and crucified, still not comprehending that his Lord CHOSE that path KNOWING what He bes doing. And all he managed to do bes to cut off the EAR of an innocent bystander. Many Christians today do the same thing, whipping out their proverbial swords and waving them about dangerously in frantic ignorance thinking they have to defend God somehow -- but they only end up cutting off the EARS of those standing nearby, that being, making it impossible for them to HEAR the Word as the Word OUGHT be heard for what it REALLY means, not for what it gets spun into by those who imagine it sanctions their nefarious course and puts God Himself in their pockets at their disposal, beck & call.
But all they do bes to shoot the wounded, kick those already on the ground, and drive needy, hungry souls away from the One who has tried to draw them. And if perchance one such soul DOES break through those obstacles and barriers, they lock them in chains of toxic soteriology, put them on the works treadmill and feed them a steady diet of guilt and fear until their fledgling faith collapses into shipwreck from sheer exhaustion and being beaten to death mentally/emotionally/spiritually with confusion and stress. It bes even as JC Himself said -- they block the gates to the Kingdom, refusing to go in themselves but hanging around there forming a blockade so others cannot enter either.
Thanks for listening.
's to you Moriah.
