DIVISION
2Corinthians [ESV] 5:11-21 Therefore, knowing the
fear of the Lord, we persuade others. But what we are is known to God, and I
hope it is known also to your conscience. We are not commending ourselves
to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to
answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the
heart. For if we are beside ourselves, it is for God; if we are in our right
mind, it is for you. For the love of Christ controls us, because we have
concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he
died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for
him who for their sake died and was raised. From now on, therefore, we regard no
one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to
the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in
Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has
come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself
and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was
reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them,
and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
The belief that Christians
are to work at tri-faith coexistent unification is misconception based in the
first twisting of Jehovah God’s stipulations. “Did God actually say,” (Gen.3:1)
Am I divisive at
times? I am, though not with it as a goal in mind, but as a result of striving
for the truth. That truth being the Word living (Jesus) and written (The Bible),
and all else thereupon.
The Word’s
example shown in Matthew 19:34-39 and Hebrews 4:12-13.
Do I like or
enjoy divisiveness? I do not. But as a matter of Romans 12:1-3 authentic worship
as His follower opposed to fickle fanship sentiment, sans glee I endeavor to please
my Lord. This, knowing division may result.
Biblical reconciliation?
Yes!
Worldly
unification? No!
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