Page 612 … a closer look at Condemnation
“I don’t know how many times we have stated that we have not condemned anyone, and yet you keep on insisting that we are. HOW???”
Well for starters, my Friend, you have done so by clearly embodying & enlivening every single one of the primary definitions for the word “condemn” …
Please consider the following from Webster’s Dictionary:
“Condemn” – (verb) … 1) to declare something to be reprehensible, wrong or evil; usually after ostensibly weighing evidence, and always without reservation … 2) to say in a strong and/or definite manner that someone or something is bad or wrong … 3) to hand out a usually severe punishment, demand that someone or something receive said punishment, or openly affirm the levying of said punishment … 4) to cause another being to suffer or live in difficult or unpleasant conditions.
Frankly, it doesn’t take an exceptionally high level of intelligence for anyone to see how the treatment that you & yours have given homosexuals in this thread alone easily meets all four of these definitions …
*1) You & yours have openly declared that homosexuality is a “mortal sin” and have unabashedly noted that it is a “lifestyle choice” that is – at the very least in your not-so-humble opinion – wrong …
*2) You & yours have openly stated in a definitive manner your unified belief that homosexuals need to repent from their sinful “choice” to be gay …
*3) You have quoted the Bible repeatedly to justify the punishment of unrepentant homosexuals with an eternity of torment in Hell …
*4) Your public judgment of homosexuals as being especially sinful and deviant has indeed further entrenched the culture-wide ignorance & society-wide bigotry that is bringing emotional, mental & even physical suffering to millions of homosexuals to this very day …
As such my Friend, if you & yours aren’t prime examples of those who embody “condemnation”, then I don’t know who could be!
“Why do you pass judgment on your brother or sister? … For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God … Do not deceive yourselves. If you think that you are wise in this age, you should become fools so that you may become wise … Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. So who are you , then, to judge your neighbor?” ~ Paul (Romans 14:10 + 1 Corinthians 3:18 + James 4:11-12)
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