You see that they are tares among the wheat.
NO.
I said worse case scenario, they could be construed as tares.
Do you let these tares take your children?
I don't know where this is going or coming from. We are talking about a inter-church dispute, not a weekend at Neverland Ranch.
Did Jesus ever let sin or a sinner slide?
If you are right, and jesus is a god. YOU better hope he grades on a sliding scale. According to your bible, all have sinned etc. Heaven would be empty if he judged you strictly according to the penalty you would deserve.
John 8 wrote:10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.
Sounds like a slide to me, but then again, the whole forgiveness thing would be called a slide if we accept the proposition that all have failed and deserve a penalty that only jesus could redeem.
The Pastor had the right to tell them to become wheat or else.
How so? He is a fallible human being just like everyone else. Unless he could become the first pope of the Southern Bapt convention, I dont think infallibility comes with the job.
Maybe instead of looking at his congregation as a hinderance, he should have looked at them as the imperfect tools that his god had given him. He would have been better served to observe the imperfections within himself rather than obsess and chase away those in which he found not holy enough for his liking.
You seem fond of telling me to read a bible. Perhaps you should examine the story of hosea and gomer. If we are to look at that as an example of how far your god is willing to go for his people, then maybe, just maybe, this pastor jumped the gun.
Voting records seem a bit insignificant in the light of a man (your jesus) making the ultimate sacrifice that others could have "eternal life".
