It is deeply to be lamented that a word should ever issue from human lips which contains the minutest alloy of dissimulation, or simulation, or hypocrisy, or exaggeration, or anything but the precise and rigid image which is present to the mind, and which ought to dictate the expression.
Jesus Christ expressly asserts that distinction between the good and evil principle which it has been the practice of all theologians to confound. Easter would not take place, if the birth of Christ did not happen. And they commonly state something to the effect that many of the skeptics claims are without sound reasoning and simply do not warrant any reply from them.
It is interesting that there are many scholars coming from all perspectives who give their lives to the study of the same historical evidence.
It is utterly incredible that this man said, that if you hate your enemy you would find it to your account to return him good for evil, since, by such a temporary oblivion of vengeance, you would heap coals of fire on his head.
They may very well not accept the Christian viewpoint because they simply do not believe it to be true but they are not actually rejecting God or refusing Him and they certainly are not making a conscious choice of going to hell or being separated from their creator.
Today, many Christian groups agree with it. Catholics expressed a deep devotion for the Virgin Mary, recognized the seven sacraments, and honored relics and sacred sites.