Ariel - spiritual discernment, not good, compromise very high, almost on any terms.
Let me tell you a simple story. Someone I knew said they wanted to find where Himmler
was buried, because they admired them.
Now my wife spent two years with first hand testimony, records, interviews, pictures,
reconstructions from the holocaust. Now I thought it was bad before this. Cannibals were
tame compared to the Nazi's. No honour, no understanding, no compassion, no perception,
pure evil which defied normal human experience.
I never spoke to this person again. Millions died because of Himmler, to honour him to any
degree at any level, was to become untouchable.
There is real evil in this world, and not that far away. People will give themselves over to it
for a little bit of peace, because they say it is not that bad, and just a little reinterpretation.
If you play games with the fundamentals, you are lost. And if you do this with eyes open,
there is no excuse, or anyway back. I know the emotional prison these guys are in, and
for them it is this compromise or death. In truth they would go to hell rather than change,
but naive people think it is just a minor issue, they will come round.
Jesus said this about the teachers of the law
If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 21 They will treat you this way because of my name, for they do not know the one who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin. 23 Whoever hates me hates my Father as well.
John 15:21-23
Guys who say their sin is already forgiven deny they have any guilt at all.