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“Jesus did tell us judge not lest ye be judged..so this is a stipulation in order to be given the gift”
I don’t think you have that quite right. I have seen people be Born Again who were judgemental(resentful) yet were given the gift of Being Born again authentically. It is an unmerited gift.
Afterwards however it is essential to not be judgmental as is so vividly portrayed in the parable of the Unforgiving Servant.
From what I have seen in my life, the average person who calls themself a Christian or Born Again Christian knows nothing at all all about overcoming anger or resentment.
Went to a Bible study a few weeks ago and couldn’t get most of them to agree that hatred is a sin
The level of understanding of most Christians is pretty pathetic, especially about their own religion.
Yes..agreed. The problem is that they learn it like any other type of learning, often the way it is taught in schools to learn. And then it becomes another sin...a horrible one too because the very things taken internally in the right way will save, but in a learned way becomes an obstruction and confusing web.
I will add though, that we do have the power to allow judgments to pass by on that road to salvation and it very much does lay the foundation for being saved. God can do it anyway He wants to of course...
That is not really meriting salvation as it is He that gives us the power to let resentment go through real prayer. So it is really what we don’t do, rather than what we do do....oops, that sounds funny.
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my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.
Hosea 4:6a