Have you ever heard this? "It doesn't matter what you believe, it's what you do that counts." It is such a pity that people forget that the former directs the latter.
Be careful though. There are exceptions. Twice Christ praised Samaritans....the fictional Good Samaritan and the only one of ten cured lepers to thank Him was a Samaritan. Thus Christ made a point of praising a group who rejected the Old Testament canon outside the Pentateuch and they changed one sentence therein to make Mt. Gerizim the favored place of God....and they hindered the building of the temple which Esra forbade them to work on as their not being really of the people of God. Yet with all that, Christ found the good actions in two of them....and contrasted their good actions in both instances with the behaviour of the Jews who had all the scriptures in the proper canon.
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Be careful though. There are exceptions. Twice Christ praised Samaritans....the fictional Good Samaritan and the only one of ten cured lepers to thank Him was a Samaritan. Thus Christ made a point of praising a group who rejected the Old Testament canon outside the Pentateuch and they changed one sentence therein to make Mt. Gerizim the favored place of God....and they hindered the building of the temple which Esra forbade them to work on as their not being really of the people of God. Yet with all that, Christ found the good actions in two of them....and contrasted their good actions in both instances with the behaviour of the Jews who had all the scriptures in the proper canon.
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