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If sinners refers to the hard core, notoriously evil people (1 Timothy 1:9), why are tax collectors singled out? (When Jesus is caught eating with them, Luke 15:1, Mark 2:15, Matthew 9:11, 11:19, Luke 5:30) (Gk. ‘oi ‘amartoloi)
Or is sinners just a designation for ethnic (Gentile) peoples outside of Jewry? (With Gentiles being considered ‘unclean’, whether guilty of any sins or not. Galatians 2:15)
{And aside, did Jesus eat at their homes so often because they were the only sinners who had enough money to feed Him and all the Twelve?}
Were the tax collectors mentioned specifically because of the money involved, and the Pharisees were given to greed?
Anonymous
““No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.”
Luke 16:13-15
“(All the people, even the tax collectors, when they heard Jesus’ words, acknowledged that God’s way was right, because they had been baptized by John. But the Pharisees and the experts in the law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)” Luke 7:29-30
Anonymous
Philip Williams Richard Cunningham stated
Demons cannot possess a true believer. A true believer belongs to Christ they do not have authority over anything that belongs to him . It is unbiblical and inconceivable that The Holy Spirit would allow one that Christ died for , the one who is a temple of the Holy Spirit , and one who belongs to the Lord to be inhabitated and controlled by a evil Spirit. If you are casting out demons you are casting them out of unbelievers and professors that really don’t belong to Christ . This type of false doctrine running rampant especially throughout Pentecostal and Baptist churches . Because of false teachers and preachers .
My questions is ONLY this – how does Richard Cunningham KNOW a true believer from a false believer?
Anonymous
Richard Cunningham stated
Demons cannot possess a true believer. A true believer belongs to Christ they do not have authority over anything that belongs to him . It is unbiblical and inconceivable that The Holy Spirit would allow one that Christ died for , the one who is a temple of the Holy Spirit , and one who belongs to the Lord to be inhabitated and controlled by a evil Spirit. If you are casting out demons you are casting them out of unbelievers and professors that really don’t belong to Christ . This type of false doctrine running rampant especially throughout Pentecostal and Baptist churches . Because of false teachers and preachers .
My questions is ONLY this – how does Richard Cunningham KNOW a true believer from a false believer?