How long have you been ignoring God? How much time do you spend here trying to "one up" each other? Much of what I see here is unkind and uncharitable, devoid of God's love. Is this really about your love for God or your vainglory, showing off how much you think you know about Scripture and other people's beliefs? Do you think God will reward you for arguing in bad faith or taking joy in the misfortune of others? If a brother offends you, why do you not forgive him and be charitable anyway instead of seeking revenge? Do you not know that if you are righteous God will justify you in the end? Scoundrels will be judged and GOD KNOWS THE DEEPEST PORTIONS OF OUR HEARTS.
There's been a lot of talk about unity lately and about who is to blame for the disunity. The only thing I have to say is the only person you should be blaming for disunity is yourself! If you truly loved your brothers as Christ loves you then there would never be a single division! No one would ever think to separate if you were united in love!
Do you think you can convert someone you hate? IF YOU HATE HIM THAT PROVES THAT YOU DO NOT CARE ABOUT HIS SALVATION! If you don't care about his salvation then how can you call yourself a child of God? Christians are kind and charitable even to our enemies. Why? Because we have faith in God, that He will set everything right in the end! Therefore we don't have any need to be cruel, angry, resentful, or uncharitable because we know that it profits us nothing!
Please listen to these words:
>1 Corinthians 13
>1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
>2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
>3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
>4 Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;
>5 it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
>6 it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.
>7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
>8 Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
>9 For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect;
>10 but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away.
>11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.
>12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
>13 So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Now examine yourselves and see if you have the kind of love described in this passage. If you don't then you need to acquire it, if you do then pray for the others who don't. I pray you dedicate your life to serving our Lord Jesus Christ and love your brother as yourself. Amen.