It IS a narrow book; a narrow path and narrow faith. It is necessarily an exclusive faith, yet open to all, and free to all; Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. The savior is clear; Buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
This narrow book, word, path, faith is condemned by the pompous, and parsed by the heretic, and mocked by the ignorant. Who will defend the truth of God? Will the hypocrite defend the truth of God's grace? Will the unrepentant defend the word of God whose message drags their sin into the light; the clear and unambiguous light? More to the point, will those who claim Christ, defend the truth? or will they join the ranks of the lost in fabricating, and sowing for truth, private interpretations that save no one?
'God saves!' They cry. 'Not any doctrine!' Blind heretics. Deaf to the truth of God's word. Even denying the spirit they claim has bought them! But bought them with what!? The works of their own hearts and hands? or the very blood of God? Yet because some insist on the word of God, these same heretics call the clear teaching of God's word 'extrabiblical.' They insist we who defend the truth of God's word cease and desist in purporting to know the mind of God, for, they claim, no one can. All the while claiming to know of a certain that their damnable heresies are beyond controversy. And they accuse us of idolatry.
They cannot see truth. They cannot hear truth. They do not know truth. They reinvent the scriptures to suit themselves, and teach to the ignorant heresies in place of the truth of God. Their path is the broad way; the way that leads to destruction. They reject the narrow path. They reject it because it is necessarily exclusive DESPITE the truth that ALL are welcome.
All are welcome, but many will refuse the call. Many are called, but few are chosen. Not everyone who says, 'Lord, Lord!' will enter into life. The way is narrow ladies and gentlemen. Narrow. Continue twisting and rewriting scripture all you want. You may believe it makes you look enlightened... loving even. But love-- real love --is unafraid to tell the sinner that they will die in their sin unless they ask Jesus Christ to save them; a feat He is able to perform because he took up His cross and carried it to His death; where He was lifted up, and His blood shed; the same blood which was sprinkled upon the altar before the throne of God in heaven, thus satisfying God's requirement for the restoration of man to holy fellowship with Almighty God.
Continue to make excuses for sin; telling the sinner God will show mercy because He is Love. And when they die in their sins, and consigned forever to the torments and punishments of hell, their blood will be upon YOUR hands... And God will not hold you guiltless. Chances are you yourselves will likely share those torments with the ones you drew away from the narrow... the necessarily narrow path our savior set for us.
Be Ye Separate! He said. Come Out From Among Them! He said. Touch Not The Unclean Thing! He said. Love The LORD Thy God! He said. Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself! He said. It's possible to do all these things. Simultaneously. Without compromising the truth of God. Truth that ANYONE can know.
Anyone who is on the narrow and ASKS to be enlightened, that is.