The truth is God doesn’t hate anybody
God even makes deals with the devil—e.g. Job, and lets the devil torment people.
I think the article’s author hit the nail on the head. Growing apostasy doesn’t mean we’re closer to the truth, it is instead fulfillment of biblical teachings about wicked the world will be before Jesus’ return.
The never wrong Bible says so.
I think if my church announced an acceptance of homosexual behavior, the parking lots and seats would be very empty the next week. Easily 90% would leave
How What Does Growing Apostasy Prove? That Christians Are Getting Closer to the Truth?
What is the New Testament Christian Covenant regarding homosexuals? Is this what LGBTIQ means?
Lesbian A female- identified person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another female-identified person.
Gay A person, mainly a male-identified person, who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to another a person of the same sex.
Bisexual A person who is attracted romantically, physically, or emotionally to both men and women.
Transgender A person who is a member of a gender other than that expected based on anatomical sex.
Intersex ?
Queer An umbrella term which embraces a variety of sexual preferences, orientations, and habits of those who do not adhere to the heterosexual and cisgender majority. The term queer includes, but is not exclusive to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transpeople, and intersex persons, traditionally, this term is derogatory and hurtful, however, many people who do not adhere to sexual and/or gender norms use it to self-identify in a positive way.
The government notion that I must subscribe or endorse another persons mental derangement or delusion conflicts with my right as a born again Christian to take these decision for myself.
the Church will one day stop diminishing the lives of those who are LGBT and we strive to help this come to pass.
Hmmmm?
I think I see?
It must all be the fault of the “church” that lgbt are so diminished. Couldn’t possibly be “the message” they would so like to believe.
They are doing it so that grace may abound.
I celebrate the fact that non-Christians don’t have to pretend to be Christians anymore. I celebrate the fact that we Christians are finding that we have to rebel against popular culture to keep our faith secure. The prince of this world thinks he is winning, just like Hillary did. When he thinks he is winning, the faithful multiply. We know which churches are apostate. Let the people who don’t want Christ go there for the coffee and day care and gay equality.
The Christians can go to the places where the whole bible is taught.
1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
Desperado, these things that are pleasing you will hurt you somehow.
If by "Truth" you mean Jesus and His Return, then I completely agree.
The story we were born into has a timeline, along with markers along the way to herald its ending.
The modern, worldly opinion that homosexuality is as normal and acceptable as heterosexuality, rather than being yet another one of Satan's many traps, is one of the markers we've been warned about.
Satan is so adept at getting us to exchange Truth for whatever lies we like best and in Romans 1:18-31 we find that sexual truth is one of the first to fall.
As such, I believe the churches embracing homosexual practices does in fact show us that we're getting close to the end of the story, and therefore much closer to the ultimate Truth that awaits us there.
So, they are right, which should actually be enough scare the devil out of them and them out of the devil's trap.
The left’s reaction to the Truth will become murderous before it’s all over. They’ll scream for our blood, as they have in the past.
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. 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
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...