As I said, "Or if it seems to us that God hates our brother...."
Because--as the parable of the wheat and the tares is intended to point out, you and I don't know which is which, even by appearances, thus don't have the knowledge to deal with it. The instruction of the parable is: Leave tHe matter alone.
Except...
as you already know... that position does not harmonize with
ALL RELATED PASSAGES
so we already know that it is only partial-truth. I have read some of your comments before
so I know you already realize that you cannot have Biblical Truth unless/until your doctrine
harmonizes with
ALL RELATED SCRIPTURES.
I assume you are aware of passages that
(a) teach we can tell the difference between the "
wheat and tares" by looking at their "
fruit"...
which includes not just their behaviors, but the also the "
fruit" of the doctrines.
Heresies are the "
fruit" of immature "
wheat" or of being an unsaved "
tare".
Immature "wheat" repent when reproved... unsaved "tares" do not.
(b) we COMMANDED are to identify these "
tares" by their "
fruit" and
to REFUTE the "
leaven" of these "
false prophets" with Scriptures
(as I am doing now... just ask if you need chapter/verse) and
(c) we are COMMANDED to SEPARATE from these "
tares" (false Christians)
and NOT to allow them to be part of our churches.
Now we have to harmonize
ALL THOSE SCRIPTURES before we can pretend to
understand any of them. And we find that easy to do when we realize the command
[in Matthew 13] was to reveal to us that it was always PART of the Gospel that the
Christian Kingdom would contain both "
wheat and tares" until the Final Harvest.
In fact, read Revelation chapters 2 and 3 to see the extent of this corruption
in the churches before the end of the first century.
However it was also a COMMAND that we (Saints) must identify who (in our church)
are "
tares" and we must SEPARATE from them (exclude them from our church)
if they do not repent if their rotten "
fruit" (either behaviors or doctrines).
I have read your comments before... I know you realize that our (a) heresy is a FORM
of showing the "
fruit" of a tare and (b) harmony of Scripture must include ALL RELATED
passages...
So.... how do you harmonize the Lord's Words to NOT separate the "
wheat and tares"
with the Lord's COMMAND to identify those "
tares" and to EXCLUDE them from our
churches?
Except by understanding that it was always
PART of the Christian Gospel to understand
the "
Kingdom" consists of BOTH unsaved "
tares" and saved "
wheat". That these "
tares"
would infiltrate the churches and the "
leaven" of their false doctrines would corrupt the
churches - and eventually the "
Kingdom". However, at the same time all the real Saints
are COMMANDED to (a) identify these unsaved "
tares" and (b) refute their false doctrines
and (c) to exclude them from our churches.
Jim