Posted on 06/20/2006 4:14:32 PM PDT by RDTF
Presbyterian church opens back door to gay clergy
Funny. I always thought that any Christian church would look to the Holy Bible as a basis for its core values. Does this mean a Presbyterian Church can now ignore whatever parts of the Bible that it finds inconvenient with a lifestyle of sin? What's next? The six commandments?
Isn't is contrary to the Bible to seek spiritual leadership from those who openly flaunt their sins?
Leviticus 20:13 (New International Version)
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
1 Corinthians 6:9 (New International Version)
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
1 Timothy 1:10 (New International Version)
for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers—and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine
Very fitting verse, thank you.
or closet door
Whether you are Presbyterian, Episcopalian, or Methodist, all you have to do to register your complaint is to quit giving money to these renegade churches.
The same holds true for universities. As long as the money keeps flowing into the coffers, these churches and universities think that they have free reign to do anything they dang well please.
Cut off the cash, and when they squeal, tell them why you did it. You'll be surprised how quickly they'll quit playing their little PC games when they have no money in the bank.
How can you be a practicing Homosexual and be true to any Churches values.? have they never heard of adultery? Of Sodomy.
Dam its hard to be in a religion these days.
This is why I am no longer a practicing Presbyterian.
Also see Pergamum
John Knox is spinning in his grave...
>Doesn't the Bible mean anything anymore?
Welcome to "Cum-ba-ya Churchianity". Check your brains at the door, and welcome to the party, have a nice day.
There seems to be a race to Perdition, between your church and my former one.
The Episcopals are leading by a mere nose.
There is a lot of money involved here. The righteous put the money in for generations in support of orthodoxcy. The peculiars want that money to spend on themselves principally and on their own social and quasi-religious agenda-- which is to say the provision of tax-free contributions made by good-hearted people which can be shifted, easily and soon, to the benefit of those whom generations have heretofore deemed strange or worse.
This is a sad day for me. I was baptized and grew up in the PC in Lynchburg, VA.
I wish the Lord would return and end the evil one's occupation.
Sheesh, my bad, you're Lutheran.
Let me amend. We're in the home stretch and there are THREE mainline denominations battling for the finish. It may be a dead heat.
If they don't fail the core value test by definition, the church has no core of any value.
Why don't they just get the process over with and admit they're not a Christian organization any longer?
Then the peculiars gain control of much valuable downtown property which they can mortgage or sell in the pursuit of their peculiar and tax-free agendas.
I am a Presbyterian and we are holding a 24 hour vigal regarding this in deep prayer to follow the Bible, I have already told my church decons I will be leaving the Presbyterian church if this happens.
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