Posted on 07/17/2021 7:23:54 AM PDT by fwdude
“El Shaddai” wasn’t even her song, it was written by Michael Card. I didn’t know this for the longest time in the early 80’s.
Good point, acceptance of gay marriage never would have happened without heterosexuals making a mockery of marriage in the first place.
Tax collectors and prostitutes aren't "wired differently".
“It doesn’t matter how we behave,” Grant continued. “It doesn’t matter how we’re wired.
Love Phil Keaggy! I got to hear him in concert at my college back in the late 80s
"No."
"Neither then do I condemn you; go and sin no more."
St. Paul became as all things to all men, but he did not allow people to pretend that they could continue in their sin. Confession and repentance are necessary.
Would people be kind enough to leave the Bible passage when referencing the bible......easier to find and read then,. Thank you
> anyone who rejects that command has rejected G_d <
If that’s all she’s being judged on, I must respectfully disagree. We all sin every day. And that’s not because we are rejecting G_d. It’s because we are imperfect. And it’s also because we sometimes misinterpret what the Bible is telling us.
There are many instances where good and honorable people look at the same piece of scripture, and interpret in different ways.
As I noted earlier, if Grant had said something like, “Jesus said this, and He was wrong” - then, yes. That’s a rejection of G_d. But she never said anything like that.
You don’t understand the parable. No matter what the son did, no matter how far he strayed, when he decided to turn around and come back home he was met with open arms by the father
Difference between acknowledging that you are sinning, and to deny that you are even sinning in the first place.
And these people flat out believe that homosexuality is not a sin.
Ironically they use one of the seven deadly sins, “Pride” to justify it.
He did not yell that Mary Magdalene was a hooker because she was not. No New Testament account says she was.
“Et tu, Amy Grant? Very sad, but the writing has been on the wall for a long time.”
What did Amy Grant say or do?
Well said, thanks!
> Difference between acknowledging that you are sinning, and to deny that you are even sinning in the first place. <
Well said! And that leads to a question: What then about a person who accepts Christ as his Savior, but knowingly continues to commit a particular sin? (Perhaps that person is not honoring the Sabbath as he knows he should.)
I suppose we all have opinions on that. But there’s one thing I’m rather sure of. No one on this Earth can claim to have the absolute answer.
“Your first remarks here were condemnation instead of seeking prayer for her.,
Ok. But then your first comment is to condemn:
“You and those like you are the reason people are leaving the organized religion you follow in droves”.
Hmm.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”
We at least need to live by the Golden Rule.
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You’ll be branded as a heretic in here. The modern-day church has no concept of unconditional love. Our modern-day Pharisees and Sadducees are quick to point us to Leviticus and the law but
fail to show us how Jesus dealt with prostitutes and sinners. The church has become a gathering of biblicists who quote the King Jimmy word for word but have no idea of the concept of forgiveness, love, and prayer
Because he repented.
Luke 15:17-20
17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father.
Luke 15: 31-32
31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”
In the parable, the Father is God and we are the repentant son.
To today’s churches The Golden Rule is “He who has the gold makes the rules.”
“When any Christian becomes apostate and denies Christ, it is sad to me.”
It is very sad.
Hey don’t see it, though.
The begin walking in the world too much (become secular) and begin walking by sight, and compassion and liberalism etc...replaces Holy Spirit.
It’s why the communists have fooled huge swaths of this nation.
The GIBLET virus is far more contagious than is the communist chinese cooties and any of its “variants”. Far more.
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