Accepting sin in our friends and family is not love because it solidifies the one who sins in their sin. Our culture has made people comfortable in their sins and now the culture is resistant to God and the gospel.
Accepting sin in our brothers and sisters proves a weakness in us and the more we remain silent the further hardened to truth and correction we become too. "Bad company corrupts good character", just as God said it would.
Making others like us by pretending love is about making everyone comfortable only brings judgment on ourselves it does not cause the sinner to repent.
God's love has been perverted to mean the opposite of what God said His love looks like. When we coddle people in sin we are hating them right into hell.
We have people telling us to look to our "one-man-paid-pastor" for guidance instead of the Holy Spirit.
John 16:13-14 " 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
We have people telling us divorce and remarriage are sanctioned by God, which he detests.
Malachi 2:16
16 “For I hate [b]divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”
We have people saying: "trust yourself, God gave us a brain", as though this is wisdom. God gave us a brain and it is easy to see what we do with that brain when it is not trusting God.
Christians are repeating many things they think are godly statements that are against the Word of God. Remember Jesus Christ is the Word, He is the essence of His Own word. When someone defies His word with human wisdom, even defending the wrong interpretation when proven wrong, they are not trusting in Christ and are very likely not born again.
How do we test if a belief is right or wrong? It's easy ask the Holy Spirit and search His word for the truth. Many if not most things you discover people using is against the Bible and against Christ.
2 Timothy 3:1-5
Difficult (perilous-ragingly insane) Times Will Come
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power; avoid such people as these."
Notice God said; "they will have a form of godliness" but they will deny Christ by their lifestyle and their attitudes.
Everything we believe must be prayed over and studied in the Word of God, if what we have been taught is against the Bible then the Bible is right and the teaching we received was not from God but from fallen and rebellious mankind.
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