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Originally Posted by Ohio
...Yes, we need accountability, repentance for wrongdoings, rejection of the leaven of hypocrisy, but to liken my posts to "eating meat sacrificed to idols" is totally absurd.
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I didn't single you out, Ohio. Please don't put words in my mouth.
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Am I now under attack for attempting to be fair and balanced, puttings events into perspective? ... Since when has “presenting a balanced view” become a "false pretense." ...
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Since when has "fair and balanced" become scriptural?
This is what Jesus said about leaven:
Matt. 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Is that fair? Is that balanced? Do you think he whispered "betware"? I don't.
This is what Jesus said to the hypocrites about their hypocrisy:
Matt. 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Was that fair? Was that balanced?
What about this? Is this fair?
Mark 11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves; 16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple. 17 And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. 18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
Please provide me some scripture verses that prescribe the Christian's responsibility to be "fair and balance". Define "fair". Fair according to what standard: political correctness, moral relativism, or the truth of God's word?
Nell