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Not everyone who claims to be a Christian is actually a Christian.
Not my job to figure out who is and who isn't - but it's apparently clear some may be horribly deceived.

Not everyone who claims to be a Christian is actually a Christian.

I've been around here long enough to know that's the truth..........

"Not my job to figure out who is and who isn't..." Yes you are...

"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 (Paul goes to the heart of EVERY matter concerning Church affairs).

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 idolater, 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."

This is out of correction, not hatred as commanded in Mathew 18. Last thing Christianity needs is a watered down Gospel WITHIN the Church. If a person is in Christ and back sliding, the last thing they should hear is "keep on supporting individuals and yourself going off the deep end as well as warping the Holy Spirit and Truth, God loves that stuff" excuses.