OH YES SHE DOES!!!
Pray for her all you like. But never, ever fool yourself into thinking she doesn't know EXACTLY what she's doing.
Do you forget His teaching?
That we don’t point out the splinters in another’s eye, while ignoring the beam in our own?
Please understand that I do not consider NP having only a splinter, (I think she has a beam, and might be in danger of judgement, but it isn’t mine to to render, but His.
So, I pray for all of us who are fallen in sin, each in our own different way. It is up to NP to seek salvation for her own soul.
If she repents, (publicly, I hope) blessings be upon her. If she doesn’t, I will still pray for her, as I do for myself. This is what we are told to do.
None of us measure up to His mark, and we cannot feel better about ourselves by taking comfort that we are less sinful in our own eyes than those we condemn.
That was my point. Don’t ignore her sin, but don’t fail to ignore your own. We all fall short of the mark.
There is no wrong in pointing out wickedness, sinful betrayals of His word, human violations of sacred truth, twisting these to what ever pleases the masses who want their own way - but we should never be smug, just because we haven’t succumbed to that particular wicked sin.
We have our own weaknesses and failures to consider. How do we know how we will be judged for those?
Just saying... we live in a fallen world, and none of us survive without making a mess of it, in some way or another. I do not mean we shouldn’t fight against giving in to the worst.
We must fight that, the worst, call it as soon as we see it, and defend His truth as we know it, but it is His to judge, so we must pray for those who succumb to the dark side, that before they die, they plead for forgiveness for their own failures, and for the harm they have done to others, in their own self-interest.
Does this make any sense? I have no clue, as I think we are now living in a dark night of our souls, surrounded by those we have elected, but who have lost their way. They are doing their best to take us down, to enervate our beliefs, to demand our acquiescence.
But, they cannot rule our hearts and our faith. Gutenberg changed that for all time. It is up to us to read, make our own choices, and make our own confessions.