Hmmm .... let's remind ourselves of the question, Should we not Preach against "Fornication" and "Adultery" strongly in the Body of Christ and confirm those who commit such will go to HELL
Jesus came across several sinners during His brief campaign here on Earth, there was an adulterous woman, a bent tax collector, prostitutes, a crazy demon possessed man, a promiscuous woman to name a few.
Look them up and read these carefully, Jesus's response is to reach out to the sinner with an invitation and promises, He does not issue an instruction to become nice respectable people, 'quasi-Christian'. This is entirely inkeeping with His commission-
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. John 3:17 NKJV.
Sometimes I think we can be more judgmental than our judge -
and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. But they did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?” But He turned and rebuked them, and said, “You do not know what manner of spirit you are of. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village. Luke 9:52-56 NKJV
OP has singled out two selective sins, blown up their significance as terminal, if do these you've just booked your ticket to Hell. This is misleading on several levels. 1.) The best definition of sin I ever heard is, anything less than God. Sin is binary, it has no shades, degrees or levels, it's either sin or it's Holy, there's nothing in between. You commit only one sin and suddenly you're in the same class as Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Pol Pot and Radovan Karadzic. There's no shades of grey, just black. 2.) Our passage to Heaven is not dependent upon what we do or don't do but rather our faith and belief in Jesus and our choice to follow Him. Wonderful works, even miracles in the name of Jesus count for nothing, -
“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’ Matthew 7:21-23 NKJV. 3.) There's a danger that the proposition denigrates the power of the cross by suggesting that there are sins that renders the perpetrator outside of the reach of Jesus.
So, do we keep shtum about Hell, not mention sin and its consequences? Absolutely not. Jesus gave plenty of warnings about the fate of the unrepentant and so we should to. God sent Jesus to rescue me, if I go all coy about what Jesus rescued me from then that reders His rescue as unremarkable.
Our message is repentance, quit following your god, erotic desires, materialism, celebrity, family, power, adoration and whole host of other traps but instead, drop all that and follow or become a disciple of Jesus, otherwise you'll find those ambitions hollow and the consequences are horrific.
