Do not quote Bible passages out of context. The context is vitally important to understand God's meaning. Misusing Bible passages is common in our day, so common that convincing someone of the truth when they have heard the out-of-context version all their lives is like telling someone we don't need to eat food or breathe air.
The anger is an indication that we have disturbed their comfort zone and that they don't care about learning only about believing what they enjoy. If they did care about truth they would be delighted to seek out more information, but most do not do this, they just become agitated and even reject the person wholesale, who disagrees.
Cultural righteousness will always fly in the face of God's truth because it is based on human wisdom and not on God's principles. It is always biased according to what fits the societal narrative.
We have a tendency to mix lack of discernment about ourselves with arrogance affording ourselves the luxury of judging others without enough information to be accurate. This is why God told us to take the log out of our own eyes before judging someone else who is doing the same things we are doing.
God never said "Don't judge at all", He told us to judge righteously in terms of God's principles and according to His wisdom and for things we ourselves are not doing.
This is the reason I feel like laughing when people so flippantly judge celebrities as good people because they gave to a charity and others as bad because they stood against sin.
Without knowing anything about others the culture will judge them good or bad based on their desired emotional feelings or political assertions.
If someone has warned others of sin according to the Bible there is a tendency to dismiss them because they are "radical" in their "religion" as so many see it. But if a celebrity gives to charity in full view of the public to be praised they get what they want, the praise of others to further their self-glorification.
Probably the most quoted Bible words are "don't judge" by those who know little to nothing about God's word but love those two words so they can intimidate weak believers into silence about sin. Correction is not tolerated in our culture just as disapproval of wickedness is not tolerated.
Those who shout "tolerance" the loudest are the least tolerant of anything that does not agree with them.
There is a double standard among those who hate correction. They will say if we fail at something it is because of our own ineptness but if they fail it is someone else's fault.
The double standard of the narcissist says that if you succeed you got lucky or someone else helped you, but if they succeed it is their own efforts that gained them success.
Those who judge according to the world judge the most and do not withhold judgment often about things they know little about. Those who judge righteously merely speak God's truth openly and boldly without malice but are judged unjustly as intolerant or mean spirited.
The devil always accuses the righteous of evil to discredit them.
Revelation 12:9-11 "9 And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven saying: “Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ. For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down— he who accuses them day and night before our God. 11 They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they did not love their lives so as to shy away from death.
Nothing has changed since the beginning, the devil is alive and working hard to destroy God's people with lies. He is using people to discredit, dismiss and even punish those who tell the truth from God's Word.
1 Peter 5:8
"Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."
If someone is accusing you of things without knowing the full story you can bet the devil is behind it.
We will be isolated from others when we stand for the truth of the Bible, but we need not be lonely because Christ in us is enough. Being alone with Christ is far preferable to being in a room full of negative Bible deniers who hate God and hate us.
Proverbs 13:19-21 "…19 Desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but turning from evil is detestable to fools. 20 He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed. 21 Disaster pursues sinners, but prosperity is the reward of the righteous.…"
There are no greater companions than Jesus Christ and those who love Him.
Prophets must have been people who loved God so much being alone with Him was a delight without the constant roar of the worldly crowd.
Proverbs 2:20-22
"So you will walk in the way of good people
And keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
22 But the wicked will be eliminated from the land,
And the treacherous will be torn away from it."
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