So many times I have heard people say in conversation words to the effect of, “I cannot believe in God because this person did something not Christian”. I can understand the logic. Thing is even Christians are flawed and will make mistakes. Try as we may we are not perfect and sin. Its God who you need to follow not man or woman. We need leaders in the Church but men and women can be corrupted so you need to keep a watchful eye. One who knows the scriptures can suss someone that wanders off the path. The word of the Bible is right and true men and women wander.
In Jesus’s time many leaders of the temple had become corrupt and lost their way. Thats part of the reason why Jesus came. To set us all straight on what is important and what should be our mission. This angered many in power in the temple and led in part to his crucifixion.
Know this God wants us all to come to him. He loves all of us and wants us all to follow his ways to make this the best earth we possibly can. He wants us to do this by worshiping and loving him for God gave us the gift of this world and salvation, and he wants us to love and help each other to make the a peaceful world to live in. Christians are not to gossip or judge on another. We may make note some who are on the wrong path and encourage others to stay away if said person doesn’t want to see the direction of their ways, but that doesn’t give us the right to condemn a person. Everything we are to do is to be done in love. Yes, it can be hard to love some people some times, but you will never know when you will wander off the path. If you did would you want someone to help you back with love or would you want someone to judge you with scorn?
13 'Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut up the kingdom of Heaven in people's faces, neither going in yourselves nor allowing others to go who want to.
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15 'Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over sea and land to make a single proselyte, and anyone who becomes one you make twice as fit for hell as you are.
16 'Alas for you, blind guides! You say, "If anyone swears by the Temple, it has no force; but anyone who swears by the gold of the Temple is bound."
17 Fools and blind! For which is of greater value, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?
18 Again, "If anyone swears by the altar it has no force; but anyone who swears by the offering on the altar, is bound."
19 You blind men! For which is of greater worth, the offering or the altar that makes the offering sacred?
20 Therefore, someone who swears by the altar is swearing by that and by everything on it.
21 And someone who swears by the Temple is swearing by that and by the One who dwells in it.
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