Mind and Body
Well, why don't you take the first step, and give a respectful and sincere answer to the questions he asked. Then I am sure you will receive a respectful and sincere answer.
And you've heard the saying, "sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind"? That is straight from the Bible.
Prov 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love. 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
John the Baptist probably seemed rude when he said:
Matt 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
And the Lord himself may have seemed rude when he spoke to the scribes and Pharisees.
Matt 23: 33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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