Posted on 05/23/2015 3:53:26 AM PDT by C19fan
Leaders on both sides of Ireland's gay marriage campaign say advocates of legalization have won a resounding victory with the ballot count still underway.
Senior figures from the "no" campaign, who sought to prevent Ireland's constitution from being amended to permit gay marriage, say the only question Saturday is how large the "yes" side's margin of victory will be from Friday's vote.
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I feel the first drops of rain...
God got it wrong? That’s the answer you’re going with?
Matthew 7:13
13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
2 Peter 2:1-16
The Rise of False Prophets
1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.
2 Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;
3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;
5 and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly;
6 and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;
7 and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men
8 (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),
9 then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,
10 and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties,
11 whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord.
12 But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,
13 suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,
14 having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;
15 forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
16 but he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey, speaking with a voice of a man, restrained the madness of the prophet.
And, then there's this:
2 Peter 3:4-10
The Coming Day of the Lord
3 Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts,
4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation.”
5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,
6 through which the world at that time was destroyed, being flooded with water.
7 But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
A New Heaven and Earth
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.
When all of that happens, you really want to be on the correct side of the gay marriage and homosexuality issue.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
Russia has one of the highest abortion rates in the world, and many of it’s people still venerate the legacy of communism, including Putin.
God's Word is all I need. The guidelines it gives keep me and those who follow it alive here and in the life to come.
Spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch X 2...
https://youtu.be/YqXZ9YoRD50
Well, when the huge liability that your wife will suddenly dump you, and doesn’t need infidelity or abuse as a reason, is a pretty good incentive not to get married.
Good point.
“The last bastion of Christian civilization” no more.
I’ve been getting ready for years, primarily spiritually. Always looking to improve.
I agree. Now they will be coming after the churches. We will win in the end.
A prophecy attributed to St. Patrick indicates that Ireland would lose the faith and that seven years before the end, Ireland, as well as England, would be completely inundated by the sea.
No but that’s what a lot of other people seem to be thinking.
Blasphemous.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2015/02/04/russias-abortion-rate-has-fallen-dramatically/
http://www.unz.com/article/examining-the-hatred-of-vladimir-putin-and-russia/
The veneration of the “Great Patriotic War” (aka the rape of Polish women and murder of anticommunists), and Putin’s proud embrace of “National Bolshevism” fly in the face of current propaganda aimed at Paleocons in the west. Abortion rate has declined only because other forms of birth control are more easily available, but still remains very high.
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