John 12:47-50 ESV If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. (48) The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge;
the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day. (49) For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment--what to say and what to speak. (50) And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me."
John 15:22 ESV If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but
now they have no excuse for their sin.
~That's why God gave us the Bible: So we can know him and He can know us. He comes to know us as our faith in Christ remakes us as a "new creation" and his friend… (Proverbs 27:17 KJV: Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Or;
Proverbs 27:17 from the
Contemporary English Version: Just as iron sharpens iron, friends sharpen the minds of each other.
~I only mention these things at all because, if we are both sincere, such differences will be ironed out as we mature and grow toward the same “Christian” maturity of faith. (