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Does Jesus Christ’s parable imply that one can go and persecute those of different ethnic groups who are all the servants of G-d? Does Jesus Christ parable imply that because one sect worships G-d differently, with different traditions or interpretations on how one worships G-d, you can go around persecuting that sect as “heretics”? Certainly not - in fact he says that if you want to enter the Kingdom of Heaven and inherit eternal life, you had better start treating the your brothers and sisters who are servants of G-d of various ethnic groups and other nations with love, compassion and respect!
Does the parable imply that? Certainly not. But the above paragraph was not part of Christ's parable. If someone worships God differently, with different traditions and different interpretations than we do, lets make sure they're found in God's Word. If the differences are in opposition to biblical doctrine, then we best not make too good of friends until we make sure we're not associating with heretics. Unitarians, Mormons, and Jehova's Wittnesses worship a different god altogether, although they would say they worship 'god' differently, with different traditions, and different interpretations. But we should not persecute them. And if we saw them hurt we should help them like the good Samaritan did. This is what we have to realize when we're talking about idols. An idol is anything that we value more than God or worship instead of Him only, wheter that be a statue, or a false idea of a god-other than the Jesus Christ revealed to us in His Word. I will follow the biblical doctrine (instructions or body of teachings). The paragraph implies one cannot know truth, and that the lines can be fuzzy. It does not say it; it implies it by asking a question.