My point is that we would not greet a smelly drunk and treat him in the same way that we would treat a 'respectable' person (if we are being honest about it); therefore we would be discriminatory in the way we love people. Because this would be a violation of the commandment of Christ, it would show that we cannot follow His commandments from our own righteousness. That's why Jesus gave instructions that are basically impossible to follow. It is to show us that no matter how hard we try and sincerely resolve, we will always fall short of being able to perfectly comply with any moral law that is presented to us, either through the Commandments or the teaching of Jesus. If we could, then Jesus would have wasted His time dying for us on the cross, and God giving up His only Son to be our Saviour, a total waste.
I understood your point, all I'm saying is though some would treat them like you say, there are some that genuinely treat them like they would anyone else.
And I would have to disagree that Jesus's sole reason for telling us to obey is to show us we cannot. We are to obey just as he says. There's just no biblical backing to not sincerely trying to obey. That was my point about forgiveness if we fall short, but don't do as many around here do and go with the thought "we all sin, so we might as well just sin and not worry about it". Those that do that are just fooling themselves out of heaven, and all so they can do as they wish and still make it to heaven.
There are those on this forum who are telling us that we have to follow the commands of Jesus in order to be saved. What comes to mind is what Jesus said to the Pharisees: "You teach people not to commit adultery, while you yourselves commit adultery!" (my paraphrase). So these ones who insist on compliance with the Law and the commands of Jesus, don't comply themselves!
That may conveniently "come to mind" in order to serve your purpose, but saying those who say we must be in compliance to the law and follow Jesus commands in order to be saved is firstly, the way you put it, probably doesn't ever get said as you claim. What they really say is what we all know to be true...follow Jesus's commands but we will make mistakes and that's covered if we simply sincerely ask. I'll make my point by asking you to show me where anyone who said we must flat out keep Jesus's commands/comply to the law in order to be saved, precisely what you said they say. See it's those little parts you/OSAS leaves out in order to create a problem that isn't there, and to falsely make us the bad guy. That type thing happens all too often here, I'm always stating OSAS doesn't play fair, and that fact shows their heart. It's all about making OSAS ok no matter what we have to do.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not singling you out, many here do that. Another point is, since OSAS doesn't have to be good they won't, I see it all the time here by the way they carry themselves in argument, and the things they will do to try to do away with the truth.
Jesus made a huge effort by doing as God said he must in order to find out if we were sincere enough to live with them in paradise for ever. Point being, he didn't just say "do what you like, it's not going to hurt you a bit", and he didn't say it because he doesn't want a bunch of insincere heathens in heaven, and that fact, if it actually were a fact is what makes people into insincere heathens, they think it won't hurt their salvation, at least in their minds. Believing we can do as we like, does nothing but hinder our chances. And no, I'm not being a Pharisee there, it should go without saying, if I do those things I'll be in the same boat as anyone else.
Here is another of those twists...You say we are like the Pharisees, but why? What exactly did we, or whoever your accusing, do? You'd like to think those who teach something you may not like, we're like the Pharisees, when you have no idea who here is doing what, that's another creation. It's just another ploy to try to make us look bad in your own minds and to others, and in turn make it appear what we teach is wrong since we are a Pharisee. How do you know they don't make an effort, and actually comply where you indicate they do not? What was the tip off, because you want to believe it or because we actually do something to make you believe we are? Maybe you can show us who and why they meet the criteria the be a Pharisee? Sure there are people like that, else Christ would not have said it, but seems to me your trying to make is seem a general rule here, as in, anyone who simply tries to convey what they believe is true, is now a Pharisee, meaning they are bad, and what we teach is bad, when in reality there zero basis for the claim...just as there was zero basis for saying anyone here says we have to be compliant to the law while they actually say something quite differently.
You didn't seem to mind being blunt accusing people of being a Pharisee and such, and FWIW, I'm not the least bit offended, but I hope you can deal with my simply being blunt.