Yes. This thread is getting quite nasty and I don't like the direction of it. I'm ashamed the moderators let it go to this, even participating in. Maybe I mis understood some posts and I'm open to that but this is how it appears--A blemish in our feast.
James 4:11-12 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12 There is one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
Galatians 5:13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death.
John did not throw another brother under the bus here but only expressed his disregard for wordly men of the flesh whose words are revered by others in the world. Some of this either is calling a brother a fool or borders on it.
1 Corinthians 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
Peace in the Church of The Living God.
Sincerely,
Alex