Publisher of Matthew Vines' 'God and the Gay Christian' Resigns From NRB

The Christian Post ^

[Faith Presses On]

WaterBrook Multnomah, which has published numerous evangelical bestsellers, has resigned from the National Religious Broadcasters over Matthew Vines' controversial book God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships.

The move comes after it was learned that Christian staff of WaterBrook Multnomah worked on Vines' book, which was published by its imprint, Convergent Books.

A number of conservative commentators have spoken out strongly against Convergent Books' decision to publish the book.

It "is the first step in a larger effort to fundamentally recast long-held, universally acknowledged norms pertaining to sexual ethics," Andrew Walker, director of Policy Studies for the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has said.

Matt Barber, founder and editor-in chief of BarbWire.com, wrote in an article that Convergent has not only the same head as WaterBrook Multnomah – Stephen W. Cobb – but also apparently the same staffers and "the same everything else. Convergent is simply WaterBrook Multnomah by another name."

[Yosemitest]

Have you not read ( ? ):

"For then shall be GREAT tribulation,
SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THIS TIME,
no,
NOR EVER SHALL BE"

Start at Daniel 11:40-45 and read through Daniel 12:1-10,

for Joshua 23:6-16 and Ezekiel 7 IS BEING fulfilled right NOW !!!

Jesus is also LORD of the Old Testament, andHe did NOT do away with the Law.
This is His warning to us.

" An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
Now is the end come upon thee,
and I will send MINE ANGER UPON THEE,
and will JUDGE THEE according to THY WAYS,
and will RECOMPENSE UPON THEE ALL THINE ABOMINATIONS.
And mine eye shall NOT SPARE THEE,
NEITHER will I have pity:
but I WILL RECOMPENSE THY WAYS UPON THEE,
and THINE ABOMINATIONS shall be in the midst of thee:
and YE SHALL KNOW
that I AM THE LORD.
Thus saith the Lord GOD;
An EVIL, an ONLY EVIL, behold, IS COME.
An END is come, THE END is come:
IT WATCHETH FOR THEE; behold, IT IS COME.
The morning is come UPON THEE,
O thou that dwellest in the land:
the time is come,
the DAY OF TROUBLE IS NEAR,
and not the sounding again of the mountains.
NOW will I SHORTLY POUR OUT MY FURY UPON THEE,
and ACCOMPLISH MINE ANGER UPON THEE:
and I WILL JUDGE THEE ACCORDING TO THY WAYS,
and WILL RECOMPENSE THEE FOR ALL THINE ABOMINATIONS.
And MINE EYES SHALL NOT SPARE,
NEITHER WILL I HAVE PITY:
I will recompense thee ACCORDING TO THY WAYS AND THINE ABOMINATIONS that are in the midst of thee;
and YE SHALL KNOW
that I AM THE LORD THAT SMITETH.
Behold the day, behold, it is come:
the morning is gone forth;
THE ROD hath blossomed,
PRIDE hath budded.
VIOLENCE IS RISEN UP INTO A ROD OF WICKEDNESS:
NONE OF THEM SHALL REMAIN,
nor of their multitude,
nor of any of theirs:
NEITHER SHALL THERE BE WAILING FOR THEM.
The time is come, the day draweth near:
let not the buyer rejoice,
nor the seller mourn:
FOR WRATH IS UPON ALL THE MULTITUDE THEREO.
For the seller SHALL NOT RETURN TO THAT WHICH IS SOLD,
although THEY WERE YET ALIVE:
FOR THE VISION IS TOUCHING THE WHOLE MULTITUDE THEREOF,
WHICH SHALL NOT RETURN;
NEITHER SHALL ANY STRENGTHEN HIMSELF in the iniquity of his life.
They have blown the trumpet, even to make ALL ready;
BUT NONE GOETH TO THE BATTLE:
FOR MY WRATH IS UPON ALL THE MULTITUDE THEREOF.
The sword is without,
and THE PESTILENCE AND THE FAMINE WITHIN:
HE that is in the field SHALL DIE WITH THE SWORD;
and HE that is in the city, FAMINE AND PESTILENCE SHALL DEVOUR HIM.
BUT THEY THAT ESCAPE of them SHALL ESCAPE,
AND SHALL BE ON THE MOUNTAINS LIKE DOVES OF THE VALLEYS,
ALL of them MOURNING, every one FOR HIS INIQUITY.
ALL HANDS SHALL BE FEEBLE,
and ALL KNEES SHALL BE WEAK AS WATER.
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth,
and HORROR SHALL COVER THEM;
and SHAME SHALL BE UPON ALL FACES,
and BALDNESS UPON ALL THEIR HEADS.
They shall cast their silver in the streets,
and their gold shall be removed:
THEIR SILVER AND GOLD SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO DELIVER THEM IN THE DAY OF WRATH OF THE LORD:
THEY SHALL NOT SATISFY THEIR SOULS,
neither fill their bowels:
BECAUSE IT IS THE STUMBLINGBLOCK OF THEIR INIQUITY.
As for THE BEAUTY OF HIS ORNAMENT,
HE SET IT IN MAJESTY:
but they made the images of THEIR ABOMINATIONS and of THEIR DETESTABLE THINGS therein:
THEREFORE HAVE I SET IT FAR FROM THEM.
And I WILL GIVE IT INTOI THE HANDS OF THE STRANGERS FOR A PREY,
AND TO THE WICKED of the earth FOR A SPOIL;
and THEY SHALL POLLUTE IT.
MY FACE WILL I TURN ALSO FROM THEM,
and THEY SHALL POLLUTE MY SECRET PLACE:
for THE ROBBER SHALL ENTER INTO IT,
AND DEFILE IT.
Make a chain:
for THE LAND IS FULL OF BLOODY CRIMES,
and THE CITY IS FULL OF VIOLENCE.
Wherefore I WILL BRING THE WORST of the heathen,
and THEY SHALL POSSESS THEIR HOUSES:
I WILL ALSO MAKE THE POMP OF THE STRONG TO CEASE;
and THEIR HOLY PLACES SHALL BE DEFILED.
DESTRUCTION COMETH;
and they shall seek peace,
and there shall be NONE.
MISCHIEF SHALL COME UPON MISCHIEF,
and RUMOUR SHALL BE UPON RUMOUR;
THEN SHALL THEY SEEK A VISION of the prophet;
BUT THE LAW SHALL PERISH FROM THE PRIEST,
AND COUNSEL FROM THE ANCIENTS.
The king shall mourn,
and the prince shall be clothed with DESOLATION,
and THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE SHALL BE TROUBLED:
I WILL DO UNTO THEM AFTER THEIR WAY,
and ACCORDING TO THEIR DESERTS WILL I JUDGE THEM;
and THEY SHALL KNOW
THAT
I AM
THE LORD. "

[cloudmountain]

Yes, I have.