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Originally Posted by bearbear
I'm all on board with you on forgiveness. We should forgive even when folks don't repent.
But still, these are the words of Jesus which I cannot deny.
Matthew 18:17
If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church. Then if he or she won't accept the church's decision, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector.
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At risk of getting into verse wars… how did Jesus treat pagans or tax collectors? Luke 5:27:
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After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.
Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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He ate with them. He did not give up or shun them.