Godz Love

When the wicked describe Christians, they verbally paint a distorted picture of either shamefully-embarrassing pushover wimps (like an effeminately-mopheaded caricature portrait of Anglo-Saxon Jesus in some pasture carrying some lamb in the arms) who won't fight back and thus who can be taken advantage of . . . or despicable judgmentally-hateful bigots, repressively and ritualistically and sadistically hung up on trying to deprivate others of freedom and pleasure.

They are wrong on both counts, as can easily be ascertained by the following abnormally-out-of-sequence Scripture verses randomly quoted here and there from first-name-but-no-last-name authors of the New Testament of The Holy Bible -- revealing a most heart-warming and welcoming happy attitude of friendliness and courtesy:

Mark 10:18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone."
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?"
Luke 18:19 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone."
Matthew 6:2 "Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by humans. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward."
Matthew 6:5 "And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by humans. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward."
Matthew 6:16 "And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by humans. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward."
Matthew 15:7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:
Matthew 15:8 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
Matthew 15:9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
Matthew 15:10 And He called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand:
Matthew 15:11 not what goes into the mouth defiles a human, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a human."
Matthew 15:12 Then the disciples came and said to Him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?"
Matthew 15:13 He answered, "Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up.
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone; they are blind guides. And if a blind human leads a blind human, both will fall into a pit."
Matthew 22:18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?"
Matthew 23:13 "But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.
Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of The Law: justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity.
Matthew 23:27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous."
Mark 7:6 And He said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
Luke 12:56 "You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?"
Luke 13:15 Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to water it?"
John 2:4 And Jesus said to her, "Oh woman, what have you to do with me? My hour has not yet come."
Matthew 15:8 "This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me."
Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
Matthew 12:34 "You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks."
Matthew 23:33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
Luke 3:7 He said therefore to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?"
John 8:21 Again He said to them, "I go away, and you will seek me and die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come."
John 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
Matthew 23:17 "You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?"
Matthew 15:16 And He said, "Are you also still without understanding?"
Mark 7:18 And He said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him . . ."
Second Corinthians 10:12 Not that we venture to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another, and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
First Timothy 1:6 "Certain persons by swerving from these have wandered away into vain discussion,
First Timothy 1:7 desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make assertions."
First Corinthians 16:22 "If any one has no love for the Lord, let him be accursed. Our Lord, come!"
Galatians 1:8 "But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we preached to you, let him be accursed."
Galatians 1:9 "As we have said before, so now I say again, If any one is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed."
Second Peter 2:14 "They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!"
Matthew 23:33 "You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?"
Matthew 16:23 But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a hindrance to me; for you are not on the side of God, but of humans."
Mark 8:33 But turning and seeing His disciples, He told Peter off, and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are not on the side of God, but of humans."
Matthew 7:3 "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"
Matthew 9:4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, "Why do you think evil in your hearts?"
Matthew 15:3 He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?"
Matthew 16:8 But Jesus, aware of this, said, "Oh men of little faith, why do you discuss among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?"
Matthew 19:17 And He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One there is who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments."
Matthew 20:6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing; and he said to them, "Why do you stand here idle all day?"
Matthew 26:10 But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me."
Mark 2:8 And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, "Why do you question thus in your hearts?"
Mark 5:39 And when He had entered, He said to them, "Why do you make a fuss and cry? The child is not dead but sleeping."
Mark 8:17 And being aware of it, Jesus said to them, "Why do you discuss the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?"
Mark 14:6 But Jesus said, "Let her alone; why do you trouble her? She has done a beautiful thing to me."
Luke 5:22 When Jesus perceived their questionings, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts?"
Luke 6:41 "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?"
Luke 12:56 "You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?"
Luke 12:57 "And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?"
Luke 22:46 and He said to them, "Why do you sleep? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
John 7:19 "Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law."
John 8:43 "Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word."
John 8:46 "Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?"
John 9:27 He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you too want to become His disciples?"
John 18:21 "Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard me, what I said to them; they know what I said."
John 18:23 Jesus answered him, "If I have spoken wrongly, bear witness to the wrong; but if I have spoken rightly, why do you strike me?"
Acts 1:11 and said, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven."
Acts 3:12 And when Peter saw it he addressed the people, "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk?"
Acts 7:51 "You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you."
Acts 9:4 And he fell to the ground and heard a Voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?"
Acts 13:10 and said, "You son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, full of all deceit and villainy, will you not stop making crooked the straight paths of the Lord?"
Acts 15:10 "Now therefore why do you make trial of God by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?"
Acts 22:7 "And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'"
Acts 22:16 "And now why do you wait? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name."
Acts 23:3 Then Paul said to him, "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
Acts 26:14 "And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a Voice saying to me in the Hebrew language (and not Aramaic/Syriac language as some synagogue-of-Satan antisemitic heretics errantly purport): 'Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? It hurts you to kick against the goads.'"
Romans 14:10 "Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God."
First Corinthians 4:7 "For who sees anything different in you? What have you that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if it were not a gift?"
First Corinthians 6:4 "If then you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who are least esteemed by the church?"
Colossians 2:20 "If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the universe, why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Why do you submit to regulations . . ."
James 4:4 "Unfaithful creatures! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God."
First John 2:15 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If any one loves the world, love for the Father is not in him."
Romans 16:17 "I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them."
Second Timothy 3:5 ". . . holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people."
Ephesians 5:7 "Therefore do not associate with them . . ."
First Corinthians 3:2 "I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready."
Hebrews 5:12 "For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need some one to teach you again the first principles of God's word. You need milk, not solid food."
First Corinthians 14:20 "Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; be babes in evil, but in thinking be mature."
Jude 1:16 "These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own passions, loud-mouthed boasters, flattering people to gain advantage."
Jude 1:17 "But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Jude 1:18 they said to you, "In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions."
Jude 1:19 "It is these who set up divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit."
Second Peter 2:1 "But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
Second Peter 2:2 And many will follow their porno-indecent licentiousness, and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.
Second Peter 2:10 and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and wilful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones."
Second Peter 2:18 "For, uttering loud boasts of folly, they entice with licentious passions of the flesh men who have barely escaped from those who live in error.
Second Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for whatever overcomes a man, to that he is enslaved.
Second Peter 2:20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overpowered, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Second Peter 2:21 For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
Second Peter 2:22 It has happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog turns back to his own vomit, and the pig is washed only to wallow in the mire."
Romans 2:24 "For, as it is written, 'The name of God is blasphemed among the nations because of you.'"
Titus 1:10 "For there are many insubordinate humans, empty talkers and deceivers, especially the circumcision party;
Titus 1:11 they must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for greed-for-money gain what they have no right to teach.
Titus 1:13 This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
Titus 1:14 instead of sucking up to Jewish myths or to commands of humans who reject the truth.
Titus 1:15 To the pure all things are pure, but to the corrupt and unbelieving nothing is pure; their very minds and consciences are corrupted.
Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
Titus 3:1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work,
Titus 3:2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all humans [ like Samuel, when he hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord, and like David when he cut off Goliath's head ].
Titus 3:3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by humans and hating one another;
Titus 3:4 but when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,
Titus 3:5 He saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness(?), but in virtue of His own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:6 which He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Titus 3:7 so that we might be justified by His grace and become heirs in hope of eternal life.
Titus 3:8 The saying is sure. I desire you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to apply themselves to good works; these are excellent and profitable to humans.
Titus 3:9 But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over The Law, for they are non-profitable and futile.
Titus 3:10 As for a human who is factious, after admonishing him or her once or twice, have nothing more to do with him or her,
Titus 3:11 knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he or she is self-condemned."
James 4:8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded humans.