Good morning. You didn’t answer my question in post 10, so I don’t feel obligated to follow your deflection attempt and answer yours.
Jewish Rabbi Abraham Skorka would deny Jesus is the Christ.
Therefore according to the spiritual litmus test of 1 John 4:1-3, which you posted in your post 6, Skorka is not of God.
Rabbi, or “teacher”, Skorka said all the little Catholics said “Amen” after his talks and prayers.
John warned in 2 John 1:
9Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. 10If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.
http://biblehub.com/2_john/1-10.htm
http://biblehub.com/matthew/10-34.htm
http://biblehub.com/luke/12-51.htm
This probably doesn’t give you the warm fuzzies as much as the Babylon builder’s version gives you.
Who knows, maybe Rabbi Skorka will convert Pope Francis! The “New Evangelism” could backfire.
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Fair enough that I didn’t answer your question, so I will now.
No, he does not. Now address my position.
Rabbi Skorka is a personal friend of the Pontiff. They were friends in Argentina, and the Rabbi came and visited with his friend in Vatican City.
I notice in your re-quoting of 2 John, that you once again start at verse 9 and not at verse 7.
The reason you do that is because if you start at verse 7, you will see that John was not talking about inviting a traveler or a friend into your house, but one who claimed to be a teacher of the Gospel and yet denied that Jesus came in the flesh.
Rabbi Skorka does not claim to be a teacher of the Gospel. He does not teach that Jesus was the Messiah but did not come to Earth in physical form.
That is the heresy that John warns against.
You are twisting the words of the Apostle John.
You are evil in your words. Take care that you do not give way to legalism and pride. That your self-righteousness does not lead you into the realm of the Pharisees.
Would you have been one to quote scripture to Jesus concerning his disciples harvesting on the Sabbath in violation of the law? Would you have been one to declare that Jesus was a sinner because he ate with those who could not present themselves for sacrifice?
You are a hypocrite if you say that you have never had anyone in your house who is not a believer. And you are attempting to remove the speck out of the eye of the Pope when the beams of pride, legalism, mis-attribution of scripture, and heresy rest heavily on your own.