“It’s OK for believers to hold, believe, and live by, different personal standards.”
I know that can seem contrary to what you have heard. Many of us have been taught that there is an objective standard of right and wrong to which all people will be held. But that’s only true about a relatively small number of issues.
“It’s OK for believers to hold, believe, and live by, different personal standards.”
That’s a position that’s uncomfortable. We are more comfortable with small boxes in which all “right-minded” people agree. But it’s not what the Bible teaches.
It’s possible that it is right for me to drink wine and wrong for you. It’s possible that it’s right for you to see an R-rated movie, but wrong for me. It’s possible that it’s right for the spouse of one adulterous spouse to stay committed and wrong for antoher.
“It’s OK for believers to hold, believe, and live by, different personal standards.”
The standards about which God convicts me, are standards for ME. I will answer to His standards for me. I will not answer your standards for me. I will not answer for how others live to His standards for me.
“It’s OK for believers to hold, believe, and live by, different personal standards.”
Don’t take my word for it. Read Romans 14
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