" , , , all of us sin, so let's CELEBRATE that sin, instead of being ashamed of it, right, RG?"
Hey, wait a minute. I've heard that before.
“If you are a preacher of grace, then preach a true and not a fictitious grace; if grace is true, you must bear a TRUE AND NOT A FICTIOUS SIN. God does not save people who are ONLY FICTITIOUS SINNERS. BE A SINNER AND SIN BOLDLY, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly, for he is victorious over sin, death, and the world. As long as we are here we HAVE TO SIN.....It is enough that by the riches of God’s glory we have come to know the Lamb that takes away the sin of the world. No sin will separate us from the Lamb, EVEN THOUGH WE COMMIT FORNICATION AND MURDER A THOUSAND TIMES A DAY...."
Martin Luther
The guy is just getting back to the basics of Protestant thought, that's all. He's probably part of the "emerging church" that claims to be returning to the "early church" as defined fifteen hundred years later by people like Luther and his buddy Phil.
If he uses all of Luther's methods he's thrown any books of the Bible than disagree with his views in the trashcan and therefore can "prove" that there's nothing in Scripture that condemns the behavior of queers.
It's another one of the "have your cake and eat it too" doctrines that have created tens of thousands of different churches each claiming to be the only real and true church.
Why should the "Church of Perverted Queers" be any different than all the other churches that interpret Scripture to suit themselves and excuse their favorite sin or sins?
He's not a bit worse than the people who wink at and ignore massive infanticide as long as it's done quietly with "contraceptives" instead of at those tacky abortion clinics.
Isn't posting and guzzling from the Monsignor's private stash against RCC rules?
What on earth is going on here, Rash and Soflo?
I like Rasputin’s tag by the way. It’s in the right spirit. The truth is even better, that He will carry those who are His towards the victory even when the battle has reduced them to apparent near nothingness. Nobody can snatch them out of His hand.
Anyhow, let’s not get so much at one another’s throats here that we can’t even breathe the Holy Spirit!!
We’re stuck in a mediocre position here for the most part in American Christianity. A. W. Tozer was one who lamented that, and addressed it as best he could. We ought to see folks going “Praise the Lord” with obvious sincerity for how they were pulled by grace out of various sins and bolstered to resist them robustly by the new righteousness of Christ. Instead we have polite church services that emphasize what you CAN’T do more than what you CAN do. God has to be shaking His head in disappointment.