Everyone should be welcomed into the church, but they should know that the Bible is very clear that certain behaviors (sins) are unholy and unacceptable in God’s sight and will be considered unholy and unacceptable in His church.
There is no situation where God’s Word is to be usurped by man’s flawed desire to purposely misinterpret it in order to make people feel better about themselves. Would we tell murderers and thieves it is fine to murder and steal in order to protect their self esteem?
Man has no right to decide any part of God’s Word is unholy. Not even Jesus, God himself, came to destroy the Word of God, but to fulfill it. What makes you think you have the right to decide which part of God’s Word should be considered “unholy.”
So you, or this “person” who wrote the book, has the authority to negate God’s Word? I read of someone who thought he should be higher than God, and his name was Lucifer.
“What makes you think you have the right to decide which part of God’s Word should be considered “unholy.””
That’s a good point. The author says it is savage text or unholy if it is “used to endorse cruelty, hatred, murder, oppression and condemnation.” So it’s weird that one moment the text is holy and then at another moment it is unholy — somehow the acts of man make the text holy or unholy. I don’t believe this is the case. The acts shouldn’t change the nature of the texts. Thanks again.