As an example of the sort of twisted thinking of apostates on this issue, take the instance where Jesus said to let him be as a tax collector. Because Jesus treated tax collectors, and everyone else for that matter, impartially, it is taught by Franz and his disciples that Jesus meant to say that those who defraud their brothers should somehow be honored by the congregation. As ludicrous as that reasoning is it's truely amazing to me that people could fall for such specious reasoning. Actually, though, what Jesus said was:
"let him BE TO YOU as a man of the nations and as a tax collector." Christ didn't say that the the offended congregation should treat the guilty one as Jesus treat gentiles and tax collectors. Jesus said to his Jewish audience to let the offending brother be as a man of the nations is to the Jew. The Jews would have hade no trouble understanding what Jesus meant because it was deeply ingrained in Jewish culture to hate non Jews. So Jesus used that to illustrate how Christians would view those who rejected the counsel of the congregation. We would view them as the Jews viewed the gentiles not as Jesus viewed them. Clearly, Franz is a fraud.
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