People are not created evil.
Forgiveness is available through Christ.
We are called to pray for people, but never to tolerate evil. Cut off your right hand if it causes you to sin.
People are different. That does not mean authority is yours or mine to condemn them or to forgive them for their sins.
Yes, we are not the judge of men's souls. Its not up to us to condemn them. Therefore we cannot judge someone above or below us, even if we think them having acted evil. Redemption is available to all. To judge someone above us is to condemn ourselves. Classism and reverence is the great evil. No man is good, and no man is evil. We are commanded to not hate.
I think I agree with the classism/reverence- “call no one on earth ‘father’… Mathew 23:9
I disagree that people are all the same and should be treated the same.
People can be evil and should be treated differently than good people.
In the same chapter Christ warns against doing what the Pharisees do. Christ did not say his followers were “the same” as the Pharisees.
