Posted on 04/23/2016 6:37:34 AM PDT by NRx
...I stand by those words of Fr. Seraphim. This Hell is being driven by one’s hormones and knowing that to deny them is “unhealthy.” Hell is being driven by one’s desires and fantasies and knowing that to deny them is to deny the only joy there is, the joy that defines your whole being.
Hell is a fine San Francisco morning standing trapped in your bedroom while an orgy takes place in the hallway outside. Hell is a foggy San Francisco afternoon standing in a room full of men involved in various actions with each other—and somewhere a voice tells you it’s all wrong, but you don’t know what to do. Hell is a balmy San Francisco evening on a back porch listening to ten homosexual men in the middle of the most liberal Episcopal diocese in the country insist that all churches are homophobic and evil.
Hell is being told in a Sunday sermon that Jesus died in first-century Judea, that Jesus isn’t alive, that Jesus isn’t coming back, and that he would want you to “follow your bliss” to find the will of God in your life—all of this when you know now that your “bliss” makes you more depressed every time you indulge in it. Hell is knowing that the same biblical scholarship that allows for your own sexual antics also allows for clergy who deny the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection.
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Hell is belonging to a church that just pats you on the head and says, “That’s okay, dear.”
Worked with a number of gay guys in NYC.
What a mess. Depressed, drinking, orgies, drugs, suicidal tendencies.
What a shame.
But there wasn’t a fat one out of the bunch. go figure.
“We value every person and support a widely diverse community” means “We have no standards,” means “We offer nothing you do not already have,” that there is no difference between church and Denny’s.
The last time I was in the San Francisco area in 1993, I perceived a dark oppressive demonic cloud over that city. And the city embraced that cloud.
The first time I went to SF I saw a man walking on Pier 39 with his arm around a woman’s waist and his other hand holding a man’s hand.
There is a reason why the Episcopal Church is shrinking and dying.
That’s interesting, given that being fat is just about the only personal quality that everyone agrees is contemptible. In fact, it’s such a sign of “wrongness” that people (especially women) in effect become “fat” when we disagree with them or disapprove of them.
I’ve been on both sides of the coin as i’m sure many have. 30 years in very good shape and then the last 17 have gained way too much!
but you’re right. It’s the last thing you can insult with no repercussions. Well, that and white men, and sometimes white women.
alcoholism, narcotics abuse, being on welfare, snap, section 8, getting 4000 back for earned income tax credit if you were an illegal!!!
what a mess.
I was in San Francisco last week. Not much has changed. I noticed there were weird looking people everywhere. I didn't like it much.
The left hates, and will do anything to crush societal “standards”.
“There is a reason why the Episcopal Church is shrinking and dying.”
Episcopalians such as myself have obviously lived with this issue for a number of years. For myself, I converted to Roman Catholicism but began to re-attend the Episcopal Church due to family, grandchildren and other circumstances. It is a faithful church that has successfully avoided the taking of sides which this issue often compels. I have found that Episcopalians can maintain faithful to traditional Christianity but their ability to do so is not dependent on the denomination but the individual church they choose to attend. Hopefully this faithful remnant will eventually result in a revitalization of the denomination at some point.
It defies nature and instinct and a person needs reassurance that it is not wrong.
Sex is for procreation and it is impossible for Gays to have children.
Actually it is a cruel joke and an unhealthy lifestyle to boot.
Very good article. I am trying to understand what makes gays tick and this is enlightening. However, what also touched me is the fact that many of us (especially including me) are expecting or hoping Christ and churches to save us “in our sins” rather than “from our sins”. All of us have favorite sins and/or faults from which we must continually strive to escape with help from above.
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Hell is living so that the sum total of your life is self gratification with no higher purpose or sense of being.
I thought this was going to be another Ted Cruz-bashing thread.
...and Just keep your eyes on Jesus... it only hurts the first time."
What they've deceptively done is perverted forgiveness of sin into PERMISSION to sin.
That's the work of the false church in the spirit of anti-Christ -- not the work of the body of Christ which is the corporate body of all who are repentant and forgiven in His grace.
Being “Gay”, is all about the perverted sex. PERIOD! Not “love”. Not just another lifestyle. Not “the way God made you”. Not “born this way” (Lady Gaga). Disgusting.
>>Being “Gay”, is all about...
...what is worshiped and served.
Note that, in Romans chapter 1, the proliferation of homosexual perversion is a punitive response to something else:
When an interviewer recently called Lady Gaga the "Billy Graham of pop," she claimed,
"I'm teaching people to worship themselves."
http://www.christianitytoday.com/women/2011/may/lady-gaga-wheres-outrage.html
Rom 1:25-27
25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen.26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
NIV
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