I had to jump in on this one Dave, are you concerned that God will judge you by His Pedophile standards?
If I don't commit adultery, and I rebuke someone who does, should I worry that God may hold me to those same standards? I don't think so.
JH
huh?
If I don't commit adultery, and I rebuke someone who does, should I worry that God may hold me to those same standards? I don't think so.
You guys honestly don't understand. Sometimes I forget that.
The point is not "I don't do this, so I can rebuke others with a clean conscience." That's smug.
The point is that people who feel free to judge others to not even have any faith, none at all, not now, not ever, because of their struggles with sin, are working above their pay grade.
Is it your position that whenever someone gets saved they are automatically exempt from ever being tempted into sin and falling? Is that it?
If someone struggles with his particular demon, is that prima faciea evidence that he never had faith at all?
That is what is being said with the "reprobate" comment.
I was under the impression that judging who was reprobate or elect was left to God.
Maybe I should join your side. You get to have all the fun.
SD