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Originally Posted by scotty
Ah yes, the lifetime sinner vs the backslidder.
Not dodging at all, careful with the assumptions 
So putting the Acts aside, again, what about the rich man?
I mean it was not direct condemnation
But it was point blank. "My way or the highway"
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Agreed, it wasn't condemnation, it was just fact......either do this, or don't, your choice.
When I think of condemnation and judgment, I think of Jesus turning over the tables and chasing the money changers out of the temple, or calling the Pharisees out for their hypocrisy, etc.
I never see Jesus speaking to sinners that way, and by that I mean Mary Magdalene, the woman at the well, the man possessed of demons, the blind men who came to him, or called out for help from the wayside, etc.....good, honest people who had a need and had no knowledge of how to have that need met always curried favor from Jesus, not condemnation.........people who took the truth and twisted it for their own purposes always drew His wrath.
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