This is true of anyone who speaks out with Scripture to expose error and help believers get back on the right track again, they are reviled by those who are stubborn in the church.
I see more hostility coming from people who say they are "Bible believers" than I do from the heathens. So many in the church today do not know their Bibles or know just enough to sound like they know but neglect most of it.
I am convinced this is because many Christians we encounter have never been born again, so they are hostile toward the truth.
These people are taking the Lord's name in vain by claiming to be Christian when they never trusted Him and don't care about His Word.
Those who have been changed into a new creation by Christ love hearing truth even if it chastises them.
Proverbs 12:1-2 "1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid. 2 The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.…"
Psalm 94:12
"Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,
And whom You teach out of Your law;"
Colossians 2:8
"See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ."
2 Timothy 2:12
"If we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us;"
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