Uh, 'Pom?
Honey, I didn't JUDGE you. I REBUKED you... and ACCUSED you of either being a hypocrite (you tell me that JAH does not speak to ME - and He doesn't, my Lord does - then say what HE told YOU... again, I say 'hypocrite')... or a liar (God, then, did NOT speak to you, and so you lied).
Look, I will raise the 'white' flag. I have wished nothing BUT peace toward you, and seek nothing more now. If it remains with ME, then I wish to be 'peaceable'. However, I will not lie TO you... or FOR you. If you, like some others, wish me to say that I did NOT receive what I have shared from my Lord, that he does NOT speak to me... then you are asking me to lie TO you... and ON him. I cannot do that, 'Pom, even in the face of ridicule and persecution. Sorry.
As I stated before, IF I offended you, I offer my sincerest apologies. But if you GOT offended, perhaps you should ask yourself why... TRULY. And read Ecclesiastes 7:8 and 9 to get a 'clue'.
Also, you may wish to research your words and their roots and meanings just a tad deeper. If I were judging you, I would be stating what the OUTCOME of your error is to be. I would be saying that YOU would not get life, or that YOU will not enter into the kingdom of my Lord, for your hypocrisy or lie. I have said no such thing, for in truth, I KNOW that my Lord and my Father show mercy to whomever THEY wish to show it.
But you show yourself to be like those you decry, those who ascribe to whatever scriptures and verses suit THEM, and completely disregard those that don't. If I were to be judging you, then I would say that FOR your hypocrisy or lying, you should be stoned. And I would hand you over to BE stoned, or pick up a stone and throw it. I have done no such thing. However, my Lord did say and gave us authority to rebuke one another, to bring forth the error of one another, and to try and 'gain' one another by speaking truth. I did that... and I did so in love and peace.
But I guess as the Psalmist said: "I stand for peace; but when I speak, THEY... are for war."
Anger, enmities and contentions are works of the flesh, 'Pom. And there IS law against such works, in that those who PRACTICE such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. And I didn't MAKE that law; I am only now REITERATING it to YOU. Now, how you RECEIVE that... from ME... is again, entirely up to you.
Matthew 10:40-42
IF, however, I indeed 'sinned against you', as perhaps you feel I did, tell me, as a CHRISTIAN... what was YOUR obligation?
Matthew 18:21, 22
Whether you ACT like a 'christian' or not, 'Pom, you have intimated that you believe yourself to BE one. Therefore, I will endeavor to TREAT you as one... in the same way that I treat ALL of the Body of Christ. I will speak truth to you... whether you 'hear'... or whether you 'refrain'.
And as always, I bid you peace, and remain...
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
SJ