I did NOT accuse, I disagreed Christ would prefer evil people over lukewarm people:
By His words of warning, He does when it comes to repentance for His sake.
Mark 2;17
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
He does not come to call the lukewarm righteous to repentance, because they say they need not repent of all their sins and trespasses.
The accusation that the teaching about lukewarm works says Jesus wants people to be evil, is just to reject the teaching without showing any error in it...
Jesus commands the tree to be made all good, not just less bad. He actually prefers we be all evil than lukewarm, because He can't help half-baked people, that are only willing to repent of some works of the flesh, but not all.-RBDERRIC #3
Therefore, the "false interpretation" of Christ's words is yours. NOW I do accuse it of error. Obvious error.
Also, just saying 'na-ah' doesn't show any error.
Christ is impeccably righteous, the "Holy One" and therefore would NEVER prefer people be "all evil":
In order to repent of all evil, yes. Since He spits out any lukewarm repentance.
Jerem 3:10
And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
As Christ would NEVER wish people were evil in any degree,
True. But to repent, the Lord only calls cold sinners to repentance, not the lukewarm self-righteous.
"cold" and "hot" are not figurative for "good and evil",
Whether in doctrine or prophecy of God, making His plain words only figurative or symbolic, is the game of the disobedient making myth out of the Bible to justify themselves.
1 Tim 6:3
If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
And God having foreseen all such games with His words, He has His them written without doubt to any honest reader. Afterall, any sensible child can read the words and see it's the works that are being judged.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
What we also see is the truth that the person is judged by the works.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
they characterize the liquid that produces particular benefits:
Which is true of judged works elsewhere:
Jas 3:11
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Both liquid and fruit are used for God judging our works:
Matth 12:33
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.
We see also in the same place, that Jesus teaches God judges the person by our works.
Christ prefers people have good works, either those that refresh, or heal the soul.
True. He commands it, because our works fellowship with God in light and life, or separate our souls from Him in death.
Isa 59:2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
Ezek 18:4
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezek
{18:31} Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? {18:32} For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves,] and live ye.
Which is why God's commandment to all is to repent of all sins and trespasses for our soul's sake, that Jesus might forgive them all.
Heb 10:17
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Rev 3 is how Jesus rejects any kind of lame conditional surrender, where sinful man offers his own lukewarm religion of only sinning less than before.
That includes any better homes and garden religion of better sinners than others. Jesus only walks in the light and pure religion of His wholly repented saints.
Jas 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
1 John 5:18
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
