"Can God redeem a pedophile?"
Yes.
"How should Christians love a pedophile?"
1. We should not accept their pedophilia, and deny them it directly and collectively even as it is deemed hateful.
2. We should pray that God regenerates them and draws them into Christ.
3. We should put them to death via the civil magistrate if they have acted on their pedophilia.
#ToChristAlone
"When I raise this sword, so I wish that this poor sinner will receive eternal life." - Executioner's Sword, Germany Late 17th Century.
I find myself internally agreeing with the death penalty but struggling to justify it when met with questions regarding my Christian faith. How do you navigate this?
Read Romans 13
Additional: Genesis 4, John 8, Matthew 5.
Sir, you refer to yourself as a Druid and frequently post about furries.
Repent and make yourself clean before engaging in these conversations.
If spilling more blood can avoided, it should be. If we are incapable of imprisoning them, then we do as we must to protect.
The death penalty is the Godly and just response to capital crimes. Limiting punishment is a liberal value, not a Christian one.
You dodged the entire point. I was trying to show you that you don’t know who will or will not be saved. Going around shunning sinners is not what Christ did. This doesn’t mean that we should condone sin or tell people that they are fine as they are. We should try to reach them with the life changing gospel of Jesus. This is what Christ told us to do, to proclaim the gospel (the good news) that God became man, lived a perfect life, and then died a criminals death, taking our place. This free gift is available to all men. If you walk around “hating sinners” you have missed the gospel and I fear for your soul. Paul was “chief among sinners” and murdered Christians and yet God chose him to write ~25% (by word count) of the New Testament.
yeah but you havent even thought about this...
https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/rbc/rbaapc/22200/22200.pdf
Believers must share the Gospel far and wide, yes.
But it is not Christians who create new believers, but God who regenerates unbelievers and draws them into Christ forever.
TLDR: you are being dutiful to share the gospel, but you are not converting people yourself.
The gift of salvation is available to all believers, but only those whom God regenerates can have true belief.
In other words, Christ died for God's elect people, not the world.
Denying sinners their sin, refusing to enable and pamper their sin, and refusing to fellowship with them does not mean refusing to share the Gospel.
Jesus ate with tax collectors and sinners. I guess you know better than Jesus.
Again. The Bible contradicts your theology.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” - John 3:16
