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>> “It must be hard for one of your level of immaculate purity to see so many fallen, filthy, doomed for eternity souls who go through life with such a false sense of belief in their own salvation through merely loving people as God loves them and living and speaking that truth as they see it.” <<
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If you can dump the childish sarcasm, and look at the last clause of your statement, you will have the essence of what Yeshua says will keep one from finding his narrow path to salvation.
“living and speaking that truth as they see it” is exactly what Yeshua was condemning in Matthew ch 7.
It is as the Father sees it and presented it in his word that is the defining line of the path, not as we see it through blinded eyes.
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"living and speaking that truth as they see it" is exactly what Yeshua was condemning in Matthew ch 7.
Interesting you went to the last clause. Because the whole state ment was "belief in their own salvation through merely loving people as God loves them and living and speaking that truth as they see it." And that is because the first clause is: "belief in their own salvation through merely loving people as God loves them..."
Which, of course, echoes Matthew 22:36-40: "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
And then, as for the "second clause," I said "living and speaking THAT truth as they see it." So as "that" truth is what Jesus called the "Greatest Commandment," I hardly think it was what he was condemning in Matthew ch 7.
And as for "childish sarcasm," sarcasm in the face of arrogance isn't childish, it's appropriate. But to the arrogant, it seems childish, because they consider themselves superior.