Again, these next few posts are written because I am finding many Christians to whom they apply. If they apply to you, fix it. That is, confess the sins and then obey.
You know that taking offense is sin. You do not seem to know that giving offense is the greater sin.
“Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 10:32-11:1)
“And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.” (1 Corinthians 8:11-12)
“If my conscience is clean that does not make me innocent.” (1 Corinthians 4:4)
Our conscience is not absolute on right and wrong.
In my short acquaintance with you it seems that what you think, you also say – and you think that what you are saying is right. The content of what you say is normally not biblical, and even it were, the manner in which you say it is not loving or kind.
You may think you cannot change because you were born this way, but that is not true because you were born again and received a new nature. “Old things have passed away, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
If you are born again and do not change, it is because you will not, not because you cannot. If you will not, it is because you are deliberately disobeying and sinning. If you really cannot change, you have not been born again. Jesus does a better job of saving than what you evidence in your life. I do not know which it is, but I am ready to help you in a positive way.
You say that you love people and are not angry. If that were true, the people would recognize that they are loved.
You know that taking offense is sin. You do not seem to know that giving offense is the greater sin.
“Give no offense to Jews or to Greeks or to the church of God, just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved. Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” (1 Corinthians 10:32-11:1)
“And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died. Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.” (1 Corinthians 8:11-12)
“If my conscience is clean that does not make me innocent.” (1 Corinthians 4:4)
Our conscience is not absolute on right and wrong.
In my short acquaintance with you it seems that what you think, you also say – and you think that what you are saying is right. The content of what you say is normally not biblical, and even it were, the manner in which you say it is not loving or kind.
You may think you cannot change because you were born this way, but that is not true because you were born again and received a new nature. “Old things have passed away, all things have become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17)
If you are born again and do not change, it is because you will not, not because you cannot. If you will not, it is because you are deliberately disobeying and sinning. If you really cannot change, you have not been born again. Jesus does a better job of saving than what you evidence in your life. I do not know which it is, but I am ready to help you in a positive way.
You say that you love people and are not angry. If that were true, the people would recognize that they are loved.
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