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"I have posted several scriptures showing how the Apostles and even Jesus Himself did not mince words, and I get told that we believers today should NOT do that."

Angry, hateful and condemning people see an angry, hateful and condemning God. God is not of our making, we were created by Him in His image. He is a loving, forgiving and merciful God who commanded us to love one another. God does not condemn anyone to hell, hell is a consequence completely of our own doing that we must consciously choose.

I pray that you find peace and love in your heart that you may lead, not drive, others to Salvation.

Angry, hateful and condemning people see an angry, hateful and condemning God.

So you accuse ME of being angry, hateful and condemning?

Why?

Meerely because I CHOOSE to use methods that are PLAINLY shown in SCRIPTURE?

I don't think I've said that you are WRONG in your approach; merely that you do NOT seem to want to acknowledge the OTHER methods that are clearly scriptural.

Acts 9:29

And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

Acts 15:2

When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/813-the-separation-of-paul-and-barnabas