Nell: I didn't single you out, Ohio. Please don't put words in my mouth.
Nell, I didn't put words in your mouth. You put them in your post and I quoted you. Are you now retracting your words?
Since when has "fair and balanced" become scriptural?
There are hundreds of verses I could quote. Read your Bible. Here's a good one: Phil. 4.5 Forbearance is "fair and balanced."
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 "beware"? I don't.
The Lord's word was very fair and balanced. I like it. He condemned those whose actions deserved it. The Lord did not condemn every single Israelite who ever went into the temple.
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?
The Lord was very "fair and balanced" here. He spoke of the hypocrisy of those who pretend righteous actions. The Israelites loved the Lord because He rebuked their rotten leaders. But not all were rotten, there were a few like Nicodemus. Praise the Lord for that.
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.
The Lord was very "fair and balanced" here also. He exposed evil and unrighteousness in His Father's house. The Lord never treated the sheep of God cruelly. He went straight to the source of corruption. Isn't He wonderful!?!
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?
You could start with the Beatitudes.
