You keep changing the options to suit your own argument. Condemnation is also not reconciliation nor love/forgiveness.
Each one is a very different path you can take in regards to this type of sin. You can love/forgive while also removing them from your life, without a need to compromise nor retributive condemning.
Absolutely is. Its an act of love for yourself and your own family by protecting them from a toxic and extremely damaging person. Its an act of love towards them by showing them their behavior has major consequences and not enabling it, helping their own personal growth and that they need to do so to have a possibility of being welcomed back.
Meaningless martyrdom might make you feel like you are being a "Good Christian" but its actively making the world a worse place AND reducing the amount of good you can do in it. And if you don't want to have any nuance in your reading of the Bible, you best be following every single word of it to the letter which I doubt anyone does meaning their hard stanced black/white views on certain things are hypocritical.
Granted, I assumed her regret for the sake of argument. Between mercy and condemnation, though, the Christian option is clear.
You keep changing the options to suit your own argument. Condemnation is also not reconciliation nor love/forgiveness.
Each one is a very different path you can take in regards to this type of sin. You can love/forgive while also removing them from your life, without a need to compromise nor retributive condemning.
Removing people from one's life isn't an act of love. Love is involved.
Absolutely is. Its an act of love for yourself and your own family by protecting them from a toxic and extremely damaging person. Its an act of love towards them by showing them their behavior has major consequences and not enabling it, helping their own personal growth and that they need to do so to have a possibility of being welcomed back.
Meaningless martyrdom might make you feel like you are being a "Good Christian" but its actively making the world a worse place AND reducing the amount of good you can do in it. And if you don't want to have any nuance in your reading of the Bible, you best be following every single word of it to the letter which I doubt anyone does meaning their hard stanced black/white views on certain things are hypocritical.