but love him - i.e. make an effort to convert him from the error of his way.
Lev
19 KJT
17
¶Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke
thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
James
5 KJT
19
¶Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way
shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
These
Scriptures have been completely perverted by some: an attempt to correct an
error is now seen as HATEFUL and UNLOVING.
Love me by converting me from the error of my way. To leave me in my error without making a sincere effort to convert me is HATEFUL... "thou shalt not hate thy brother..." by leaving him in the error of his way, that is to "suffer sin upon him."
In a
bible study, I referred to Hebrews 2:14 KJT — "Forasmuch then as the
children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part
of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of
death, that is, the devil" - to make the point that the suffering of Jesus
was as real as could be because He is the Word made flesh.
A
student of the Hebrew language said that his Reverend instructor taught that
the text reads as "blood and flesh" and not "flesh and
blood" and that the blood and flesh refer to atonement by animal
sacrifices in the OT and Jesus's incarnation respectively.
I said, "My KJT has the order of 'flesh and blood,' and the context speaks of the incarnation of the Word, John 1:1,14.
- It is lacking common sense, i.e. stupid, to say that "blood and flesh"
refers to atonement by animal sacrifices in the OT and incarnation in the NT; this would
necessarily make the children spoken of to be partakers of animal sacrifices
and incarnation too.
The
student went berserk because I corrected the bizarre idea of her revered
instructor, a complete stranger to me; I haven't the slight idea who the
instructor is.
She raved against me: "You do not love your brothers in Christ. So I am afraid that you are not an Elect. Because if you have loved your brothers in Christ, you would not have written to run them down with SO MUCH HATRED in your heart.
I
replied: Thank
you for your kind words...
May
the Lord bless you in the days ahead. Amen.
