Many Faiths, Common View on Marriage: Men and Women Are Created for Each Other
http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/26/many-faiths-common-view-marriage-men-women-created/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social
Did you detect a very slight slant to this report? Maybe a hint of bias against this one church congregation’s manner of helping the couple who lost their son?
Maybe I just imagaine that this is not reported fairly to all involved.
It won’t mix. Christians must be seperate in many areas of their life and this is just one more. Good rarely lifts wrong up and more especially if
the wrong is accepted. It won’t work, a house divided cannot stand.
If they claim they were “taught wrong,” then they believe God is wrong. If they believe God is wrong, then they are wrong.
A 12 year old boy who says he’s gay is still just a 12 year old.
Its ironic how they act like being gay is something new.
“Evangelicals with gay children challenging church.” Fill in the blank with any other sinful behavior - drunk, lying, promiscuous... Would these parents be as tolerant?
Sin is sin. There are no in betweens in right or wrong.
This is not an exclusive evangelical problem, but affect Catholics and Protestants too.
Cafeteria Christians claiming there’s more than one way to interpret “Thou shalt not...”
The CDC clearly states that sodomy is deadly! Not only the Bible... the CDC states this! The Federal Government states this information clearly on their website...
Form your own church. Dedicate it to anal sex.
I am sorry for your loss. However your son made the choices that caused his death not the Church.
(“Now we realize we were so wrongly taught,” said Rob Robertson, a firefighter for more than 30 years who lives in Redmond, Washington. “It’s a horrible, horrible mistake the church has made.”)
What you are saying is God made a mistake. be honest.. The wages of sin is death. That does not come from the God.
I think they approached this wrong. Very few "gay" people are actually gay. The reason gay activists say gender is a spectrum is that most "gay" men are attracted to both men and women - often more attracted to women but more 'successful' with men. Still, close to 90% of the 2% of the population who are non-heterosexuals are not entirely gay either and thus have a real choice other than celibacy.
Rather than telling him to change, they could and perhaps should (after eliminating the possibility of molestation, perhaps with a shoot-shovel-shut up ceremony to say goodbye to the predator) have told him that feelings of attraction often come and go at that age, and that he has the power to choose. Just as a married person may be attracted to people other than their spouse but they are forbidden by God to act on that attraction, some people are attracted to both men and women but are forbidden by God to act on the homosexual attraction. Once it's pointed out that God is (1) the creator of the universe and thus has the right to tell us how to live our lives, and (2) all knowing and thus the best imaginable source for guidance on how to live our lives, it should be easy to guide the confused boy to an appropriate conclusion on how he should live his life. And if he is exclusively gay? Then it's still possible to live a fulfilling and happy life in which he would both follow God's guidance and contribute to society.
So if my kid winds up murdering someone, I should say murder is ok, just because I love my kid?
And if their child had killed and eaten his neighbor would they be trying to get their church to change it’s stance on cannibalism?
Translation God has to change, I don't.
James Brownson, a New Testament scholar at Western Theological Seminary, a Michigan school affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, last year published the book "Bible, Gender, Sexuality," advocating a re-examination of what Scripture says about same-sex relationships. His son came out at age 18.
Because God was just so unclear about it being Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve.
And for those unclear:Linda Robertson, who with Rob attends a nondenominational evangelical church.<
Is code for Baptist leaning.
As I have said before: Within 50 years it will be the Catholic Church alone standing against same sex unions.
They probably let someone get to their kid which made him gay.
A great book to read is called “Is God AntiGay”
It is written by Sam Allberry a pastor in England who has SSA (same sex attraction).
The main difference with him is that he supports the biblical interpretation of homosexuality. That it is a sin and homosexuals should be celibate. It is their cross to bear in this life. In the book he says he is not defined by his sexuality but rather by who he is in Christ. Therefore a life dedicated to glorify God is what SSA Christians should emulate and the homosexual lifestyle is NOT such a life that would glorify Him.
Very good read.
Proverbs 30:6
Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be proven a liar.
This is what these two unbelievers want to do. Glad they have outed themselves so Christians can see the wolves among them.