I'm fine with you keeping your beliefs Nancy but simply for the sake
of discussion, Let's speak of the greatest command you of course
personally follow.
Mat 22:36 “Teacher, which is the great command in the Torah?”
Mat 22:37 And [YESHUA] יהושע said to him, “ ‘You shall love [YAHWEH]
יהוה your Elohim with all your heart, and with all your being, and
with all your mind.’
Mat 22:38 “This is the first and great command.
Mat 22:39 “And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbour
as yourself.’
Mat 22:40 “On these two commands hang all the Torah and the
Prophets.”
The great command is that we love, not that we exercise our judgment
over other people Nancy.
Mat 7:1 “Do not judge, lest you be judged.
Jas 4:12 There is one Lawgiver and Judge, who is able to save and to
destroy. Who are you to judge another?
In the end we must recognize that we all come from one source. Love.
It is far more important to be loving. Especially when you consider:
Isa 45:5 ‘I am [YAHWEH] יהוה, and there is none else – there is no
Elohim besides Me. I gird you, though you have not known Me,
Isa 45:6 so that they know from the rising of the sun to its setting
that there is none but Me. I am [YAHWEH] יהוה, and there is none
else,
Isa 45:7 forming light and creating darkness, making peace and
creating evil. I, [YAHWEH] יהוה, do all these.’
Everything is of one source... How would you explain it? I bet you
would say, "If it be his will."
It's more important to be loving and compassionate then it is to be
right by my own judgment.
Take care and be blessed. We are required by scriptures to warn our
brothers of the fact that their behavior is wrong.
Eze 3:17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of
Yisra’ĕl. And you shall hear a word from My mouth, and shall warn them
from Me.
Why do we presume to speak for the Almighty? The applicable words
are, “from My mouth”, have all of you heard the Almighty speaking to
you from his mouth to your ears?
Eze 3:19 “But if you have warned the wrong and he does not turn from
his wrong, nor from his wrong way, he shall die in his crookedness,
and you have delivered your being.
When we speak our peace to other people, we have fulfilled our
obligation to warn our brothers when they are wrong. Why do people
live in judgment of other people when clearly scriptures teach us not
to do this? If we believe somebody is in error, we should speak up
but then,
Pro 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there
is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
Scriptures repeat over and over that we should leave them alone:
Isa 55:7 Let the wrong forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his
thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, who has compassion on him, and to
our Elohim, for He pardons much. 8 “For My thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares Yahweh. 9 “For as
the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your
ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Let the wrong forsake his way! WOW, you mean it’s not our job to go
around accusing every other person of being the antichrist?
Rev 22:11 “He who does wrong, let him do more wrong; he who is filthy,
let him be more filthy; he who is righteous, let him be more
righteous; he who is set-apart, let him be more set-apart.
Are we seeing this? He who is wrong, LET HIM DO MORE WRONG… This
can’t be true, how could this be in the bible?
Eze 3:27 “But when I speak with you, I open your mouth, and you shall
say to them, ‘Thus said the Master Yahweh.’ He who hears, let him
hear. And he who refuses, let him refuse, for they are a rebellious
house.
He who refuses, “Let him refuse”… You mean the idea of leaving people
that you might consider wicked alone isn’t a unique teaching?
Mar 8:33 And turning around and seeing His taught ones, He rebuked
Kĕpha, saying, “Get behind Me, Satan! For your thoughts are not those
of Elohim, but those of men.”
That our thoughts are not his thoughts aren’t unique is something we
should all consider in our peaceful journey forward. Learning to
respect even those that disagree with us is not something unscriptural
or some fancy new age teaching.
Mat 15:13 But He answering, said, “Every plant which My heavenly
Father has not planted shall be uprooted.
Mat 15:14 “Leave them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And
if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into a ditch.”
It’s not something only the Messiah taught, it’s Old Testament.
Hos 4:17 “Ephrayim is joined to idols, let him alone.
I have no doubt that this is a hard teaching to follow for us.. that
we let them be what they are but in doing so, we submit to the
teachings of our scriptures and show by our works, the faith that
motivate our actions.
Hos 4:4 “However, let no one strive or reprove another, for your
people are like those striving with a priest. 5 “And you shall
stumble in the day, and the prophet shall also stumble with you in the
night. And I shall make your mother perish. 6 “My people have
perished for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I
reject you from being priest for Me. Since you have forgotten the
Torah of your Elohim, I also forget your children.
Yahweh desires that we know and understand but this does not happen
when we waste our time passing OUR judgment on our other people. The
scriptures are very clear in that we are not to strive with other
people. Now this is not to say that we can’t have a spirited debate
which by the very meaning is righteous, only that it is not our place
to seek to subvert other peoples understandings.
Eze 18:23 “Have I any pleasure in the death of the wrong?” declares
the Master Yahweh. “Is it not that he should turn from his ways, and
live?
I strongly recommend people read Ezekiel especially chapters, 3, 18
and 33 which are all relevant to the topic.
Deu 17:12 “And the man who acts arrogantly, so as not to listen to the
priest who stands to serve there before Yahweh your Elohim, or to the
judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from IsraEL.
We have ONE JUDGE and ONE CREATOR who will judge all, don’t try to
think it’s you. Be Humble.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it
has been to one's own.
Willa Cather
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation,
nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mohandas Gandhi