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>>For them it seems, real evil and wickedness is limited to someone who has a different understanding of doctrine when it comes to serving Jesus Christ.<<

We aren’t asked in scripture to correct a sinning, unbelieving world. We are to spread the gospel and make sure the gospel that the apostles taught stays pure.

2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.

If someone teaches something the apostles didn’t or teach in opposition to what they taught we are to consider them accursed.

“But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:8-9

We aren’t asked in scripture to correct a sinning, unbelieving world. We are to spread the gospel and make sure the gospel that the apostles taught stays pure.

As a missionary serving in rural India, I'm curious - would that 'Gospel" be the Baptist one, or the Catholic gospel?

What about the Evangelical Free Gospel, or would it be the Messianic gospel? All of whom make the same claim: that it is only THEIR catechisms and doctrines the Apostles taught - and anything outside those beliefs and traditions is deviation and heresy.

When preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God to those who have NEVER heard of Jesus Christ - there is ONLY ONE MAXIM, ONE DOCTRINE THAT MATTERS, and Paul stated it clearly in I Corinthians 2:2.

Doctrine does not win people to Christ. Not catechism, not order of worship, not Sabbaths or Sundays. Christ and Him Crucified is all that is necessary to be known.

While we justify ripping one another to shreds over doctrine and purity - we lost the American heritage and culture to overt wickedness and sin. It's always easier to bash a brother or sister, it's safer. Safer than confronting the real bully down the street. The one who is going to shove secular hedonism or Sharia down your throat after pantsing you.

I guess what is left of Christianity in America is limited to the Lukewarm or the Pharisee.

God forbid we sit in 'judgment' of sin, but hey - sitting in judgement of who is and who is not a Christian - that's what it means to be Christian in today's vapid culture apparently.