Posted on 08/03/2018 9:45:16 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Do you also submit to His correction of His followers in Mark 9:38-42?
We don’t see evidence in the NT of people gouging out their eyes or cutting off their hands so the statements aren’t meant to be understood literally.
38 “Teacher,” said John, “we saw someone driving out demons in your name and we told him to stop, because he was not one of us.”
39 “Do not stop him,” Jesus said. “For no one who does a miracle in my name can in the next moment say anything bad about me, 40 for whoever is not against us is for us. 41 Truly I tell you, anyone who gives you a cup of water in my name because you belong to the Messiah will certainly not lose their reward.
This has what to do with the homosexual problem in Rome?
James 2:8-11 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.
So it doesn't matter which sin you commit, law breaking is law breaking and carries the same penalty.
And here James lumps in partiality, which isn't even listed in the Ten Commandments, with murder and adultery.
It's still sin and anyone who commits it is still a law breaker.
The point isn't what laws are broken, how they are broken, or how much they are broken. It's THAT it was broken.
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THIS!
>>But not from a church in the condition Roman Catholicism is in.<<
I’ve been saying for many years (since the VC-II debacle) that the subversion of the RCC would have enormously damaging consequences not only on Christianity worldwide, but also on civilization in its entirety, because the former will inevitably lead to the latter just as night follows day.
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