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How do you deal with someone close to you who is knowingly sinning?

If there is a group of people you associate with, say in your circle of closest friends or family even, and there is one or two of them who continue to do what you consider a sin, how do you act around them? Do you avoid them? Change your circle?

Say they commit adultery or theft or slander or something else. But bottom line is that what they do is a sin in your book. What is the right thing to do? If they already know it's wrong, but they live as if they aren't sinning (Because let's face it, many things that are deemed wrong in the past are suddenly accepted by society as okay. Keywords being accepted by society, not right.) , what is the right thing to do?

Funny thing about right and wrong. Society changes it continuously for convenience. Do you see it? I'm asking this to you, especially to those who know what WWJD stands for. What do you think would Jesus do?
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Graylight · 51-55, F
Tell me first why you believe in sin and not natural consequences, as the rest of the universe and animal kingdom here are bound by them? What is it for you that makes a consequence a religious thing, a wrong in the eyes of God?

Funny thing about right and wrong. Just as things once thought improper are now deemed acceptable, much to the horror of conservatives, some things once thought proper and godly were never to be judged in the first place, like wearing haughty clothes, growing one's hair too long or besmirching a neighbor. It works both ways.

What unconditionally loving god would punish his followers or those who've never even heard His name? Why would the heavens or Universe care about the "morality" or seeing a drag show for fun? In the farthest reaches of space, do you think it matters if Elisha loves Allison?

Why wouldn't an omniscient, omnipotent God construct a playground of learning and creativity rather than a ladder of ever-ascending rungs of growing difficulty along a path of worship just for Him?
Graylight · 51-55, F
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