Lie #3: No one should be offended.
How inconceivable that every idea no matter how demeaning or disrespectful, every falsehood or misrepresentation, every contradiction, every utterance, every contrivance or conduct of man should be considered inoffensive! How absurd, indeed! Such a delusion that not even one person should be offended by these words and actions while the perpetrators take great offense at any who would disagree, refute, rebuke or bristle at them. This is the great double standard of hypocrisy (and "tolerance") and shows the eminent depths of depravity (and judgmentalism) of its practitioners.
We who seek the best from ourselves and others, aspire to virtue not vice, know right from wrong, good from evil, better from worse are offended! For vice destroys others, wrong hurts every recipient, evil spreads its tentacles and corrupts others, and worse has no beneficial comparison to the advantages of better. All the kindness, helpfulness, compassion and mercy that we extend to the unborn or to the oppressed is offensive to some. And simply telling the truth is offenive to others.
Every idea should be examined and tested (judged) for value, every claim weighed in the balances, every thought brought into subjection to this standard: "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Philippians 4:8 There is no higher goal than this: "Cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." 2 Corinthians 10:5
And the pretentious who reply: "Do not judge" are speaking with sheer ignorance, or willful denial, of their own actions. For their judgment and condemnation of those who oppose them is swift, strong and sure. But this they need to hear:
- What you do to others will return to you.
- God knows the thoughts of the heart.
- Judgment for all men will come.
- Choose well what you will do.
• For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you dole out, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7:2
• Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you dole out to others, so shall it be measured to you again. Luke 6:38
• And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. Genesis 6:5
• I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. Job 42:2
• God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. Psalm 7:11
• I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Ecclesiastes 3:17
• For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Ecclesiastes 12:14
• I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Jeremiah 17:10
• A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. Matthew 12:35
• Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Romans 1:32
• For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10
• For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
• I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work. Ecclesiastes 3:17
• Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Haggai 1:5
• And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face. Hosea 7:2
• For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10
• For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son. And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. John 5:22 & 27
• And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer. Revelation 10:5-6
• And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. Revelation 20:12
• Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which you have learned; and avoid them. Romans 16:17
• Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God 1 Corinthians 10:32
• Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed. 2 Corinthians 6:3
• And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11