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Bible college fires theologian for tweet against homosexuality, threatens to report as terrorist: lawyers
Fox News ^ | 03/19/2023 | Jon Brown

Posted on 03/22/2023 5:39:27 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski

Methodist Bible college in the U.K. fired a Christian theologian and threatened to report him as a terrorist because of his tweets in opposition to homosexuality, his attorneys claimed.

Dr. Aaron Edwards, who taught theology at Cliff College in Derbyshire, England, was dismissed from the school after being accused of "bringing the college into disrepute" on social media last month.

"Homosexuality is invading the church," Edwards tweeted on Feb. 19. "Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this [because] they're busy apologizing for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it's true.

"This *is* a ‘Gospel issue,’ by the way. If sin is no longer sin, we no longer need a Savior," Edwards added.

Edwards' tweet went viral and prompted blowback, to which Edwards responded: "That *is* the conservative view. The acceptance of homosexuality as ‘not sinful’ *is* an invasion upon the Church, doctrinally. This is not controversial. The acceptance is controversial. Most of the global Church would agree. It is not homophobic to declare homosexuality sinful..."

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KEYWORDS: antichrist; apostasy; bible; bibleprophecy; homosexuality; lastdays; lgbtqi; prophecy; sodomy; spiritofantichrist
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To: Jan_Sobieski

They are the terrorists.

Well, dememted authoritarians.


21 posted on 03/22/2023 6:21:40 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Gay State Conservative

A friend who used to do house concerts would rent out his local UU church if he had an act that went beyond doing events at his house. It was always interesting checking the place out. Lots of rainbow flags, of course.


22 posted on 03/22/2023 6:25:13 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: metmom

God BLESS this professor who is standing up for the truth!
God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for what we now say is acceptable.
Judgement is coming!


23 posted on 03/22/2023 6:28:00 AM PDT by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: jagusafr
My former church recently voted to disaffiliate. The vote to disaffiliate carried by 2 votes out of a total of 220+/-.

After the vote was over and the results were announced, one guy stood up and called those of us who voted to leave an "abomination" (wonder where he got that from) and screamed that he would pray for us. He has a daughter who is a lesbian.

I wanted to stand up and point to him and yell, "It's a homo-lovin' heathen...let's string 'em up.";-)

But I didn't.

24 posted on 03/22/2023 6:28:56 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Our church vote in Phenix City, Alabama went 190 to disaffiliate and five to stay. I was pleasantly surprised by the margin. A two-thirds vote was required for separation from the UMC. Alabama’s Truman Capote would be welcome in our church ... but not as a minister.


25 posted on 03/22/2023 6:35:10 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Went to the Methodist church for years and NEVER heard the Gospel. It took my wife to get me to go to a different church before I was saved.


26 posted on 03/22/2023 6:36:26 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: circlecity

Yeah that works too


27 posted on 03/22/2023 6:46:21 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, thed ......)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Bible college? He was in enemy territory.


28 posted on 03/22/2023 6:47:28 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: pollywog

(God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for what we now say is acceptable.)

Yep

(Judgement is coming!)

Absolutely.

Luke 21:34-36

Tagline.

✝️🙏🛐


29 posted on 03/22/2023 6:47:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, thed ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Hopefully all of this asinine wokeness by certain denominatio ns will result in the disenfranchised to seek out churches that teach the fundamental truth. Hopefully they Will see the light and see just how wicked their denomination has become, and start to seek God on his terms rather than on the conditions of woke preachers who have created a god in THEIR own image


30 posted on 03/22/2023 6:50:03 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: aspasia

(Bible college? He was in enemy territory)

Once the liberals took over, a lot of once-conservative seminaries ARE enemy territory.

I worked with several that sat under liberal professors.

They almost all, to a person, saw absolutely nothing wrong with Barack and his agendas.

My former boss was a social justice liberal with mannerisms very similar to Bronco Bama. And he operated by “feelings” - when push-came-to-shove, a betrayer.

God destroyed the (unnamed) organization 4 years later. They now exist in a much smaller form. They had exchanged conservative teachings for Liberal agendas.


31 posted on 03/22/2023 6:58:38 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, thed ......)
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To: Bob434

The hour is very, very late


32 posted on 03/22/2023 6:59:23 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, thed ......)
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To: cuz1961

Heh


33 posted on 03/22/2023 7:02:12 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, thed ......)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

According to “Wikipedia”

“The Wesleyan Methodist Minister and theologian, Samuel Chadwick, was principal of the college from 1913 to 1932.”


34 posted on 03/22/2023 7:05:13 AM PDT by Swirl
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To: RoosterRedux

(What is amazing is how many Methodists believe that homosexuality is no longer a sin.)

And others, across many denominations, siding with the godless.

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12
King James Version

7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonians%202%3A7-12&version=KJV


35 posted on 03/22/2023 7:05:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, thed ......)
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To: Monterrosa-24
Alabama’s Truman Capote would be welcome in our church ... but not as a minister.

When I explained to a friend what the Bible says about homosexuality, he went into a rant about how abused they have been.

I told him that I agree that abuse is wrong. In fact, I encourage homosexuals to fill the pews. Then, like the rest of us, they can hear the Gospel and repent.

But I don't think they should be in the pulpit or in leadership any more than an unrepentant adulterer or alcoholic should be.

And I don't think we should tell them that homosexuality isn't a sin. It seems to me that lying about the sin of homosexuality to a homosexual is almost as great a sin as being an active homosexual.

If we do that, we are basically telling them that if they take the road to hell it will somehow lead them to Heaven.

36 posted on 03/22/2023 7:07:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

“What is amazing is how many Methodists believe that homosexuality is no longer a sin.”

**************************************************************

Homosexuality?

For over 50 years they haven’t even believed fornication is a sin.


37 posted on 03/22/2023 7:08:44 AM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: RoosterRedux

They define love as acceptance of somebody fulfilling their personal desires. They have rejected the idea of natural law, although God Himself has not rejected natural law and those who have rejected natural will find this out for themselves.


38 posted on 03/22/2023 7:11:41 AM PDT by Jonty30 (It is not how many that go into Mexico that counts. It is how many that return from Mexico.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Back when I used to drive from UGA to visit friends at Auburn, we used to sometimes pass through Phenix City. Back then it was known as the Las Vegas of the South for its gambling, prostitution, and drugs. Is that still the case?


39 posted on 03/22/2023 7:13:04 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

“...I don’t think they should be in the pulpit or in leadership any more than an unrepentant adulterer...”

Yes, and it seems to me that most married men who chase their secretary around her desk or chase other women would not deny that their behavior is wrong. Most of the Don Juans and the Casanovas are not interested in presenting their behavior as acceptable and normal in children’s literature.

Many homosexuals are relentless in their efforts to get LGBTQP tendencies celebrated. And that is a decisive difference.


40 posted on 03/22/2023 7:18:35 AM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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