““God loves you just the way you are.” “
If you’re proudly living in sin, the Bible makes it abundantly clear that no, He doesn’t. Christ called all men to change and be Holy. So if you’re a theif, murderer, rapist, or shacking up with the same sex, God loves you anyway but wouldn’t tolerate such behavior. Rogers sounds like he caught the same disease killing the old mainstream Protestant churches....Cafeteria Christianity.
God does love everyone and specifically beckons the sinner to Him. Until you can distinguish the difference between the sin and the sinner, you don’t understand Christianity. Fred Rogers apparently understood this.
I respectfully disagree.
You, me or anybody on the Earth is completely unaware of how God will judge others....we can guess. We can even hope that God judges some men very harshly. But before we wish that on anybody else I think we should look into our souls first and see what we truly are.
Liar, thief, adulterer, murderer, coward, hypocrite, fornicator, blasphemer, are just a small number of sins that I may have committed.
Do I find proud or hypocritical men disgusting? Yeah.... because I'm one of those men. ........ we all are.
I think that Mr. Rogers may have been on the public dole for too long, but he was harmless. It sounds like he was trying to let the people that were less than perfect realize that God's kingdom is open to all of us. That our repentance and coming to him can be made from any sinner. That we are all sinners and that only through the greatest gift we can receive will we be forgiven and allowed to be given a small chance to be in his glory.
I think God loves you just the way you are. He loves all of us. Even the most vile, disgusting and twisted among us......but just because he loves us, doesn't mean we'll all be saved. I think it means that we all have the opportunity to accept his gift of grace.
Of course that's just my opinion....and I could be wrong....for my sake I hope I'm not.