Can't say I completely disagree with your above.
Philippians 1:15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: 1:16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds: 1:17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. 1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
At the same time, your own error is just as obvious.
For you equate the "ism" as the culprit.
Fact is - take any individual who was already living by the hypocrisy of one rabidly entrenched double-standard or another, introduce them to an "ism" or "ology" or what have you, and such an individual is likely to automatically begin filtering his or her assertion of said "ism" through the lens of the rabidly entrenched double-standard, they had already been living out of.
I've seen this manifest itself in every walk of life, and...in every "ism" and or "ology" out there.
Be the individual a former practitioner of one martial art or another; be it a former alcoholic, or some other form of chemical abuse addict; be it a physicist formerly of a different school of physics; be it someone who had once held to one party of Politics or another; be it someone who professes having formerly been Reformed, or formerly Baptist, or formerly Dispensational, or formerly this, or formerly that - the infection that was long their duplicity is ever the same in those formerly rabid in their prior view to begin with - it too often infects where they view and or stand in support of their new view from.
This is why there is often no getting through to such about this problem - even the attempt of one such might other wise view as one of their own.
Thus, why we read of the shameful "He came unto his own - but his own received him not..." at the same time; in contrast to that of "But as many as received him..." John 1:11,12.
For to right off conclude the "ism" and or "ology" of such is itself the culprit, is another form of a double-standard, and is thus also, a hypocrisy, northwye.
"Ye have not so learned" that from "Christ..."
In contrast to your "one size fits all" in your above post, He had often made a distinction as to the things that differ between the two...
Matthew 23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 23:2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 23:3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 23:4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
Nevertheless, Rom. 5:8, northwye.
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