I know it wasn't asked of me but I'll give a reply anyway.Grace wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:27 pmGood question.temporal1 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 7:09 pm boot,
Grace clarified her words.
In response to her clarification, do you agree some words, actions, policies, such as mutilation of children, esp for carnal goals, and/or efficient extermination of unborn human life, as gov policies, promoted+paid with public funds, are evil?
I think there is a problem with me pointing fingers at a person who does certain sinning and instead it should be the sinning itself is what I can point out. I can and should judge what I see the scripture calls sin but I also should remember that 'but for the grace of God, there go I'. Otherwise I might be sinning in thinking more highly of myself than I ought and thus sinning myself.
I don't think it is about being some kind of a pansy or weak Christian for not calling out sin but rather about passing judgments on others as being evil. I believe I should not go around speaking evil of someone's actions or beliefs unless I am perfect myself, which only Jesus is. I am to love the sinner but hate the sin wherever sin shows up.
When world leaders and anyone is despised and hated for their beliefs and actions, that, to me, is sinning. I am not called to point out all the places that sin shows up in the world but rather to point others to the Saviour from sin. In my experience, most people already know they are sinners or it doesn't take much to point out what scripture calls sin. My job is to focus on the remedy but I can get hung up on just identifying kinds of sinning.
Whenever I slip into passing judgment of other people's sins, I could be operating in a similar attitude that the Pharisee had when he said God I am glad I am not like this sinner. A self righteous attitude that does not see his own sinful ways.
I can slip into this view of others when I give way to the flesh and it results in missing out on the abundant life Jesus spoke about.