Yes. Jesus ate with tax collectors and people known as sinners, and his critics named him for it: “a friend of tax collectors and sinners” (Luke 7:34). Paul told the Corinthians not to associate with immoral people, then explained that he meant fellow Christians, not outsiders, “since then you would need to go out of the world” (1 Corinthians 5:10). The name was meant as an insult, and Jesus repeated it himself. When the Pharisees asked why he sat at…

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