Absolutely correct interpretation. However, good luck; as people will continue to stop at the phrase “Neither do I condemn thee.” All rotten behavior is justified by this deliberate misinterpretation. Just as bad is the false doctrine “Hate the sin but love the sinner.” God hates the sinner and will place him in hell. Can any sane man say being placed in Hell is an act of love?
Excellent point, but what needs to be pointed out is the next line in the Masters sentence: "Go forth and sin no more."
For whom did Christ die?
Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:7-9
Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. 8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
god doesn't throw men in hell, He lets them go the way they have chosen.
Being placed in hell is an act of love if there is reincarnation, and thus the opportunity to learn the reality of divine law that cannot be ignored.
Otherwise, you have the situation of an eternal hell, which a lot of people find to be contradictory to the idea of a loving God.
I wonder if people really think this through. Many people have died in their twenties rejecting God. Imagine, instead of dying, that they were taken to Aushwitz. Imagine seeing them in the camp 60 years later, broken by the horror and abuse of the camp.
According to you, that’s nowhere near enough for God. Instead, a hundred billion years later, it’s still not enough for God. And all for 20 years of error?!
I’m not arguing with you here. I’m just pointing out that a significant number of people see this teaching as the declaration of a psychotically insane and sadistic God, from whom Jesus could never have come.
And I’m also pointing out that if this teaching is not true, then it has driven a billion people away from Jesus and many of them into the arms of political collectivism to seek their security, not to mention all of those who turned completely away from God in disgust and despair.
These are just facts, and they aren’t even hidden - liberals can and do openly confirm this sequence of thinking.
“Can any sane man say being placed in Hell is an act of love?”
God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked. CS Lewis said that “Hell is a tourniquet placed on the soul and is that last bit of kindness for the soul that would not allow God to do anything else for it.”