exactly my view of what the Bible is saying to us.

To me, the message is always believe in your heart that I am God and share the gospel to everyone that you can.

If you chose me over the world, I will bless you, meaning you will have a place in my kingdom when Christ comes again

If you chose otherwise, you will be “judged” meaning that we can be sure that we will be subjected to the judgement of God but the Bible does not inform what kind of judgement or outcome of the judgement will be.

Nevertheless, God has given us a choice and it is up to us to decide whether we want to follow the way of Christ or otherwise.

And the church really has no business to “soften” the message to bring people to Christ.

If Christ was adamant about the message he is bringing to to Jews and Gentiles even though they were not receptive of what he was saying, then what reason will we have to do it when we want to share Christ with people around us…. it is simply not logical in my mind