'So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth." Revelation 3:16
The question has no relevance if we take Jesus’ own words seriously.
Whether with malice or simple negligence, failure to live in charity, in practical kindness to others, is profoundly offensive to God,
and Jesus goes so far as to teach in Matthew 25 verses 31-46, leads to eternal damnation.
In these passages, describing Himself as Judge of souls, He separates those going to heaven from those going to hell, only by whether or not they/we have lived lives of practical and actual kindness to others, which He states as being acts of kindness also to Him.
We can argue the question, but God’s answer is clear, failure to act in charity to others is sin, in fact serious sin, because the choice not to is a choice against heaven, and is a choice against the Commandments which Jesus sums up as:
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Matthew 22:37-40
It may be difficult to confess individually all our sins of negligence, but our failures in charity towards others are serious basic failures of our life as Christians.
