And What About Divorce? When it comes to debating homosexuality among Christians....(Prod Caucus)

The Aquila Report ^ | April 30, 2014 | Kevin DeYoung

[Gamecock]

From the RM: Caucus threads are closed to any poster who is not currently and actively a member of the caucus group.

[paladinan]

Conservatives, in the culture and in the church, keep talking about homosexuality because that is the fault line right now. We’d love to talk (and do) about how to have a healthy marriage. We’d love for that matter to spend all our time talking about the glory of the Trinity, but the battle right now (at least one of them) is over homosexuality. So we cannot be silent on this issue.

This! This should be put on every billboard in the country. Well said! (Good grief... to listen to the canard-throwers, you'd think that my computer was more important than my wife, if I happened to postpone kissing her "good morning" in order to put out my computer that's in flames!)

[paladinan]

(There seems to be a typo in the link to the page, BTW...)

[humblegunner]

Caucus threads are closed to any poster who is not currently and actively a member of the caucus group.

What group is known as "Prod"?

(Prod Caucus)

[Twinkie]

“more easily condoned than confronted”

Five words that explain it all. The difficulty in confronting also involves the $$$$$$$$ potentially lost in
the offering plate in my opinion. Bottom line = fear.

[HMS Surprise]

There is no religious divorce. No Christian church has a mechanism to do such a thing. Only the state can “divorce” someone, and that is a mere voiding of a social contract. So good people, whomever you were first bound to under a religious vow, is the person you are forever bound to in God’s eyes.

[Religion Moderator]

Prod is short for Protestant.

[4yearlurker]

Did God destroy any cities because of divorce or gluttony?

[G Larry]

Let's turn the clock back to the early 60’s and the invention of the Birth Control Pill.

It was embraced by society for the allure of consequence free sex.
Of course it wasn't, and thus abortion on demand was introduced as the fulfillment of that “promise”.

With this little backdrop, how difficult was it to predict the impact on Marriage, commitment, and divorce?

[Former Fetus]

Sorry, it was supposed to say:

From the Free On-line Dictionary:Offensive Slang. Used as a disparaging term for a Protestant.

[Gamecock]

Please don’t mention those from other faith groups. Doing so tends to break the glass.

[Former Fetus]

Is then ok to use an “offensive slang, a disparaging term”? How much longer does it take to type “protestant” instead of “prod”?

[Responsibility2nd]

Way to hijack your own thread.

[RatRipper]

Did God destroy any cities because of divorce or gluttony?

You really need to read the whole chapter, but this passage in Ezekiel gives additional insight into the destruction of Sodom. The Bible is crystal clear on homosexuality, and I lean on Romans 1 more than any other. But this passage indicates that there was much more to Sodom than only homosexuality, and it really points a finger at our affluent society as well.

Ezekiel 16:47-51 New Living Translation (NLT) 47 But you have not merely sinned as they did. You quickly surpassed them in corruption. 48 As surely as I live, says the Sovereign Lord, Sodom and her daughters were never as wicked as you and your daughters. 49 Sodom’s sins were pride, gluttony, and laziness, while the poor and needy suffered outside her door. 50 She was proud and committed detestable sins, so I wiped her out, as you have seen. 51 “Even Samaria did not commit half your sins. You have done far more detestable things than your sisters ever did. They seem righteous compared to you.

[4yearlurker]

I see what you mean. I never read that before.

[P-Marlowe]

Last time I checked Pastors do not officiate at divorce ceremonies.

[Former Fetus]

I heard that argument before, plus "they were idol worshipers". I always ask if they were worse (gluttons, proud, lazy, idol worshipers...) than the people in the other cities surrounding them. Remember that at the time, only Abraham and his family knew and worshiped the True God. What made the people of these two cities worse than the others, needing to be annihilated? I think the answer is in Gen. 19:5 --> And they called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.” Why was Lot so insistent that they would not spend the night in the open square? That would have been normal at the time. But the citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah were know for their homosexual lust, it would not have been safe for anybody to spend the night other than behind lock doors.

[RatRipper]

I only found it about 6 months ago. That chapter is a pretty stinging condemnation of Israel/Jerusalem

[mulligan]

Another smokescreen and red herring to take eyes off the real problem. Evil is evil.