Cautionary tale: per the end of the last post, sure glad i read (atleast some)

Scripture on my own.   Because, a few days ago, was listening to a sermon, which compared the pharisee and the tax-collector, who were both in the temple.  (Luke 18:10-14).  Well, hear that preacher describing the two men being almost identical, while emphasizing that the former remained lost in his sins, while the later became redeemed  from his sins.  

Began to get confused ... ya know, which is it???   The preacher was going on how the pharisee, the guy who, when church was over, went out of the building, still lost - and on his way to ... that eternal horrible place!  Uhm, yeah, getting confused and fearful ... am not even close to Bible student of the year, but doggoneit ... and it's a really sad state of affairs to realize this - but i am more familiar with Scripture than most folks ... that's just plain sad.

Anyway, listening to that sermon, the doubt it raised, uhm, yeah, was starting to freak.  Then i recalled, having actually read that Scripture, a time or two, three words in that Scripture (verse 11a) that the (yeah, King James ... the regular, not the new) preacher, had completely glossed over.  Those three telling words had summed up where praying mr. pharisee was coming from.

"...thus with himself..."

Yep, that's how the pharisee was praying.

Had i not realized that...   Anyway, am still a bit upset, because it's that sort of glossing over that runs people off...ya know, people who might have otherwise come to a saving knowledge.

Very sadly, there are preachers - even preachers who preach from only the Authorized King James Bible - whether through ignorance or malice (yeah, ravening wolves, you betcha!) or both, do serious damage, to both saved and lost.

Seriously, this happens, and it happens way too often: the church can be MORE spiritually dangerous than Julie's Bar (been closed, but whadda slaughter house) ... holy patoli, i'm not joking.  Atleast when ya walk into that den of iniquity, you know there are wolves about.