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The Apostle Paul specifically says that the church is to rebuke its members and let God do the judging of the world.
1Co 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 1Co 5:10 Yet not altogether the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 1Co 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no not to eat. 1Co 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? 1Co 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person. See, Christians are suppose to have judgment WITHIN the church, only of its (voluntary) members. God is the one that judges the world, Christians are to rebuke one another to keep each other on the straight and narrow path. How can a Christian expect a heathen to do the "right thing" since they do not have the Holy Spirit? Any Christian knows (believes) that only by the Holy Spirit can people truly do good works, and the Holy Spirit is received by faith in Christ Jesus the Lord. So if someone doesn't have faith in Jesus, a Christian can't really expect them to produce good fruit. A lot of people have been jaded by the hypocrisy of church-goers, because they have twisted and neglected this essential concept: God judges the world, not us. Let God do what God does best: judge. Christians suck at judging, and even if we didn't, the judgment is only supposed to occur WITHIN the church, AMONG people who have claimed to have repented of all their sins. |
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