Posted on 04/04/2015 11:00:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A few years ago, while visiting family in Maryland, I attended church with my brother. It was a very hip contemporary church. The pastor, who looked in his early forties, wore a shirt and jeans. I saw a parishioner with a Mohawk haircut and others with tattoos. This is not a judgment, merely an observation that the congregation was very racially diverse, as well as in their attire.
The topic of the pastor's sermon was homosexuality. He disclosed that his sister is a homosexual. Folks, filled with national statistics and documented facts, the pastor delivered the most loving and compassionate sermon about God and homosexuality that I had ever heard.
I told my brother that if his pastor's loving sermon was heard nationally, the left (the mainstream media and Democrats) would be picketing the building, attempting to close his church down. Like most Christians back then, my brother was unaware of the aggressiveness of radical homosexual activists.
Traveling the country as a political activist, I am well aware that the left's national initiative goes far beyond seeking tolerance. Their goal is to force Christians to celebrate every item on the homosexual agenda. They deem anything less unacceptable, bigoted, and hateful.
Do not be deceived, folks. Christian businesses are not refusing service to homosexuals. The Christians driven out of business by leftist activists routinely served homosexuals, but in good conscience could not service a homosexual wedding. Rather than selecting vendors eager to service same-sex weddings, leftists insidiously targeted Christian businesses in an attempt to bully them into compromising their faith as they perceive it – in essence, denying Christ. Meanwhile, the mainstream media is complicit in helping leftist hit-persons portray themselves as passive victims and Christian business owners as hate-filled aggressors.
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I think this is a great response.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/churchformen/2015/04/the-bibles-solution-to-the-wedding-dilemma/
Celebrating and perpetuating homosexuality. Given recent events, that being the MotB is very plausible.
Unless a bunch of straight dudes put a stop to it...
..when whole billion dollar empires would be based on pornography and pandering to our entire male population, who by and large, bought into it? enough anyway to support and multiply these practices?.
easy divorce without consequences?.
.that wasn't a sign of the beast?
or maybe it was when we took prayer out of schools and even the flag of our nation.
...maybe when our young men who enlist are wearing blue berets from the UN?...
where was the starting point in our lifetime?....
there's so many to pick...
Simply say, “I’m a Christian. I tell everyone I meet about Jesus. I love to talk about Jesus at weddings. In fact, I’d like to tell you about Jesus right now. Would that be all right?”
The mark of the beast refers to Rome. People had to go to the local “courthouse” and pledge fealty to the emperor or they could not own a business, etc. The emperor was a required object of worship by the soldiers.
The only ones who love homosexuals are Christians. We are the only ones who tell them the truth about where their sin till take them. Love without truth is not love...
RE: “I’m a Christian. I tell everyone I meet about Jesus. I love to talk about Jesus at weddings. In fact, I’d like to tell you about Jesus right now. Would that be all right?”
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What if the gay couples response to the question is — NO?
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The mark of the beast has absolutely nothing to do with “Rome.”
Do you think Yeshua sits on the throne of David on the Holy Mount Moriyah at this time?
Do you see his re-born elect ruling with him, having defeated the “governments of men?”
Preterism is a form of insanity.
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The nerates have a god. He is the father of lies, a murderer from the start. Make no mistake, these same tolerance whining degenerates will cut a Christian’s head off if they get the chance under a ‘new world order’.
So, I have been turning all of this in my mind and heart, the businesses who refuse to bake a cake for gay marriage.
Is not having sex before marriage a grave sin against the Lord? Do these same bakeries make cakes for a couple who are living together in sin before marriage?
Do any of these Christian bakeries or businesses believe in abortion while at the same time refusing to make a cake for gay marriage?
The reason I ask this is because my sister in law is an extremely devout Catholic. Never misses a Holy day, prays to all the Saints, etc. However, she votes Democrat, even knowing they support abortions. So I do know that extremely devout Christians are hard-lined on some issues but not so much on others. When I questioned her on the abortion issue she merely replied, well Republicans believe in capital punishment, the taking of innocent lives.
So where does the Lord draw the line in doing business and our faith as questions? Is one sin graver then another? Do we ignore some while refusing to acknowledge certain ones in business decisions?
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>> “ Do these same bakeries make cakes for a couple who are living together in sin before marriage?” <<
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How would they know?
Few heterosexual couples advertise their sins so openly, nor require others to endorse them.
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RE: Is not having sex before marriage a grave sin against the Lord? Do these same bakeries make cakes for a couple who are living together in sin before marriage?
The main difference I see is that fornicators do not flaunt what they do when they buy your cake. I don’t see anyone saying: “Hey, bake me a cake because I want to have sex with this person before marriage. Put in the message: HAVING SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE IS GOOD”
I also do not see people saying: “Hey bake me a cake for my abortion party, and put in the message: ABORTION IS GOOD ON THE CAKE.”
I am willing to bet devout Christians will object to doing these too. That is, if they want to be consistent with their faith.
If they don’t then they are practicing selective morality.
Vatican II
the mark on the head or hand..referred to ones thoughts and opinions......one’s HEAD..or their actions,.the.Hand!
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No, the mark will be very real, not philosophical.
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“Is not having sex before marriage a grave sin against the Lord? Do these same bakeries make cakes for a couple who are living together in sin before marriage?”
Not really a good argument. The baker never said he wouldn’t bake a cake for gays, only that he would not bake a cake in celebration of their “wedding”. The argument would be that he might bake a cake for fornicators, but not one to celebrate their living in sin.
it might better be termed conceptual, rather than philisophical
The Head or the Hand...are concepts in this regard
I agree. I would look at every customer as Christ sent, give the best service possible offer a discount to gays, BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY TESTAMONY OF THE POWER OF CHRIST TO DELIVER FROM SIN! Oh, all customers would need to hear my testimony and sign a statement they heard it. Use this as an opportunity to be a fisher of men! Christ said “ if some one asks you to walk a mile go two” !
the references to the head and or the hand. have deep roots in Judaism
http://www.goodnewsaboutgod.com/studies/spiritual/home_study/phylactery.htm
But all their works they do to be seen of men, they make broad their phylacteries. . .” Matt 23:5
So, what is a Phylactery?
Tefillin (Ashkenazic; Israeli Hebrew): also called phylactery (meaning “to guard, protect”) are a set of small black leather boxes containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Old Testament, which are worn by observant (Orthodox) Jews during weekday morning prayers. The hand-tefillin is placed on the upper arm, and the strap wrapped around the arm, hand and fingers; while the head-tefillin, is placed above the forehead.
They are worn by Orthodox Jews because they believe that the Old Testament commands that they should be worn to serve as a “sign” and “remembrance” that God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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