Miley Cyrus Mocks Christians Who Believe in Old Testament 'Fairy Tales'

I will pray for those other people you mentioned, too.

OK, then who is it that Apostle John is warning about?

"If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it."

I don't know why you're bothered by this idea of praying for sinners.

Aside from exercising clairvoyance, what gives you the idea that I do not pray for and minister to "sinners"?

Compassion expressed as prayer is never "misplaced", . . .

"Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: . . ." (Jude 1:21,22 AV).

Not all, some will just turn your compassion against you, showing you it was misplaced.

. . . since we try to be good to friend and enemy, the just and the unjust: . . .

". . . For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not . . . " (Jude 1:4,5 AV).

Watch out for such. Through foreknowledge, God knows that they are determined not to be saved. They defy His preferred will to save rather than destroy.

. . . this is a kind of caring which Jesus commends as being "perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."

This kind of "compassion" is not Spirit-led compassion, It is only commiseration. In contrast, in the night in which He was betrayed, Jesus prayed with true compasion:

"I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: . . . I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine" (Jn. 17:6a,9 AV).

I ask you, did He then pray for Judas the Betrayer? Did He pray for Simon Peter?

"But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven" (Mt. 10:33 AV).

Did He not distinguish between two deniers? In the end, Peter believed the Word and was converted; Judas did not. And then Jesus went through the fire of The God's righteous, fiery wrath to save His Faithful Own:

"And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh" (Jude 1:23 AV).

I'll add you to my prayer list.(I've gotta write these things down . . .

You might want to think this over, for if by any means you are a constituent of an iniquitous religion of works-oriented salvation, the effectiveness your prayers might be open to question:

"If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:" (Ps. 66:18 AV).

And I will continue to pray that you can come to a Heavenly residence through faith alone, based on Scripture alone, invested in Jesus Alone, the sole and only Begotten Of God, through His Redemptive Blood, once offered for our reconciliation with His Father and our God.

I trust that you will open a trustworthy version of the Bible, and read and ponder on Jude, as well as the corresponding passage in 2 Peter 1:10-11; 2:1-22; 3:15-18, esp. verse 16.

Miley Cyrus is no longer a child, and the Bible has something to say about the consequences of her behavior.

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