[Uncle Chip]

Uhhh, ok. Which means, of course, that you're certain that YOU are a "true Christian," and as such you feel qualified to pass judgment on everybody else. Seriously: doesn't that statement make you just a little bit uncomfortable? It sounds more than a little like this parable: He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt ...(Luke 18:9-14)

No -- I think it is more like this from the Apostle Paul:

"I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears. And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."[II Timothy 4:1-4]

How are you doing with those scriptures???

[r9etb]

As expected Chip, as expected....

You must be very pleased, not to be like us tax collectors....

[Dr. Eckleburg]

"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine."

Amen. We are instructed to rebuke idolatry and lies.

That is why God refers to His word as a "sword" which He gives to separate error from truth.

"For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." -- Hebrews 4:12