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I did read the rest, but as soon as I read your first sentence, the verse I quoted came to mind.
Yes, of course it did, it was a knee jerk response and a Scripture that is used here often to attempt to dismantle the rest of God's Word so that sin may abound.
I'm sorry, but I cannot see how that's the case. Maybe you shouldn't tolerate or condone those who mock you, but you should love them. The Bible tells us to love our enemies.You can do that wtithout necessarily condoning their behaviour.
They aren't mocking ME, this isn't even about me. This is about those who claim to belong to Christ, in a Christian forum promoting what God has called abominable, making a mockery and making profane Christ crucified, mocking and scoffing at the Word of God, wearing His name, and at the same time blaspheme Him and trample the Son of God under their feet, making for themselves a new doctrine, and an image of God in their own minds that they can live with, rather than conforming to His will and His ways and teaching others to do the same.
If any of them were on the side of the road, I would help them. If any of them needed clothing, I would help them. If they wanted prayer, I would pray for them. If they needed a hug, I would hug them. If they needed a meal or were on the street and it were in my power to lend assistance, there isn't a thing in the world that would stop me from doing so.
Their behavior in all of the above mentioned things IS what I am not tolerating, and will not, and as a child of God and a minister of His Word, I am charged not to, and so are you.
We do not disregard the second commandment but we do not dispose of the first to promote a perverted version of the second.
Again, God's love is a different definition than the one attempting to be ascribed to the Second Commandment. Read the other Scriptures I posted.
I agree, but this doesn't mean we should disregard the second commandment. If we love the Lord, we will also love all his people. That's why the Bible says that the second commandment is 'like unto' the first. They're very much connected. You can't have the first without the second.
Fair enough, but can you have indignation and love at the same time? I think that it's possible that you can, and should, love everyone, unrepentant sinners or not. You can love someone without agreeing with what they do.
There are many different kinds of wordly love; perhaps not all of them are good. But for the most part, I think they are. If wordly love was something which condemning us, why would God command us to love our neighbour?
Read this from Paul about fornicators and others involved in sexual sin in the Church that was actually WORSE than that found among the heathen. Are they counted as brethren?
Tell me, do you think that Paul was breaking the second commandment when he, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit said to turn those people over to satan, and to put away from them that wicked person?
1 Corinthians Chapter 5
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolator, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
No, he actually was keeping both commandments, as I am. You are just confusing God's love and worldly love. They are not the same. And God NEVER told us to be quiet while the lawless run amok in His name, teaching to others the ways of destruction, in the name of Jesus, so that they will deceive many. That is not what was meant by the second commandment.
The world's love will LULL people into hell, while God's TRUTH (which the world might call tough love, which is for those who claim to be "within" but live as though they are "without") has the POWER to snatch a soul from their hell bound destruction.
Those who have been told the truth may still choose not to hear it and continue in the path of destruction, but it won't be for lack of knowledge of the Truth.
You and others keep seeming to forget we are not on a gay website. This is a "Christian Forum" where those who claim they are "Christians" are actively promoting a particular sin in the name of Jesus, and not even a "sin" per se' but a lifestyle of sin.
THAT is the difference, and THAT is what the problem is.