Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Scaughdt: My dear Friend, if that is your take on John 5, then you are selling Jesus way short!
If he is truly who you say he is, then his LOVE – like his Father's – is PERFECT; without any
condition or limitation or blemish whatsoever (Matthew 5:48). And as such, it therefore
knows no judgment whatsoever either (John 5:22 + John 8:15 + John 12:47 + 1 John 4:18).
Of course, this version of Jesus is there to be found only if you want to find it; only if you
choose to humble yourself and have the ―eyes to see and the ears to hear‖ (Matthew 13:16) his
message – not the ―blind-leading-the-blind‖ message of the Pharisee Paul (Matthew 15:14), and
certainly not the rotten blasphemies of Revelation (again, please refer to pages 207-209 herein) …
The choice is yours, of course (and the choice yours will forever remain), in terms of the way you
choose to read John 5, in terms of which Jesus you choose to follow thereby, and in
terms of which God you choose to honor as a consequence … I pray you choose wisely.
P.S. It is ―The Word‖ that condemns – not Jesus himself (see John 12:48) … Please
READ YOUR BIBLE, my Friend!!!
P.P.S. Just as importantly, if you are
truly going to worship ―the whole Bible‖ (as you
& Lucy so boldly claim – all the while ignoring huge
swaths of Scripture yourselves) then there is only
one way to reconcile the passages where Jesus
―judges indirectly‖ (a la John 12:48 &/or a more
conservative reading of John 5 – Matthew 25 is full of
them too) with a ―perfect LOVE‖ that is truly
Divine & unconditional, and that is to realize that
99% of the time when Jesus mentions ―the Son‖
he is not talking solely about himself – but is
rather referencing the Divine Essence that resides
within us all (see John 14:20-26)…
Indeed, if the Bible is truly the inerrant
Word of God, this must be the case, otherwise
Jesus would have spoken an untruth in Matthew
16:28 when he said, ―Truly I tell you, there are
some standing here before me who will not taste
death before they see the Son of Man coming in his
Kingdom‖; for everyone who was standing before
Jesus at the moment he uttered that statement has
indeed died long ago, and the traditional
view of the ―2nd Coming‖ has quite
obviously not yet come to pass.
Sooooooo, my Friend, what are we to make of this verse? Is the Bible fallible? --- or
was Jesus? --- or was he speaking of something else; something far more Divine than the
constrained God of limited ―love‖ that you are choosing to worship? Personally, I choose to
honor Jesus Christ and his Father and the Bible by choosing the latter. And because I care for
you deeply (and hate to see you continue to abandon the glorious ―Kingdom‖ of Jesus Christ that waits
for you even now) I humbly recommend you commence doing the same … And yet that is
essentially none of my business, so I will simply continue to Love you & yours unconditionally
and let you all and the heavenly Father work that out on your own …
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