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To: Chanticleer

"I respect your right to choose not to see the film. You must act as your conscience leads you. In this choice, my brother (or sister), we must respectfully disagree."

Herein lies the problem. As a Christian, I don't follow my conscience. Neither am I interested in the consensus of men. I also don't care about what you believe. I follow the Word of God. That's what Christians do.

Your deconstruction of God's Word to bolster the god you have created in your mind - from your worldly thoughts, desires and tender notions - is the sin of idolatry - an offense against God's 2nd Commandment.

Now lets look at what the Bible actually says

The Bible says:

"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers; for what fellowship does righteousness have with lawlessness? And what partnership does light have with darkness? And what agreement does Christ have with Belial? Or what part does a believer have with an unbeliever? And what agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are the temple of the living God, as God has said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people." Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you and I will be a Father to you, and you shall be My sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty" (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).

The Bible says:

"And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light." See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil" (Ephesians 5:11-16).

The Bible says:

"having a form of godliness, but denying the power of it; even turn away from these. For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts, ever learning and never able to come to the full knowledge of the truth. But as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so these also resist the truth, men of corrupt mind, reprobate concerning the faith. But they shall proceed no further. For their foolishness shall be plain to all, as theirs also became" (2 Timothy 3:5-9).

The Bible says:

"But now I have written to you not to associate intimately, if any man called a brother and is either a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one not to eat. For what is it to me to also judge those who are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside? But God judges those who are outside. Therefore put out from you the evil one" (1 Corinthians 5:11-13).

God's Word is clear. Obey it if you truly fear God and are a Servant of the Lord.


93 posted on 02/02/2006 10:18:21 AM PST by Search4Truth (I'm eating orange sherbet and I don't care who knows.)
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To: Search4Truth
I do obey and honor the Word of God, and I do not "deconstruct" it to suit me. I read it fearfully, prayerfully and intelligently. You cannot totally separate from the world and still minister to the world. We must be in it but not of it.

By your definition, no Christian should ever have gone to minister to the Aucas. Why should they have taken their children with them? Why should those missionaries have left all they knew to live with these people? They did become intimately connected with them, lived with them, ministered to them. The Aucas (Waodani) were a people who murdered each other at a whim. They buried their living children with their dead. This was as spiritually dark a people as ever walked the face of the planet.

God didn't leave them to die in their sin. He sent faithful people to go, even to die, in order to bring them words of Truth. He brought them peace, both individually and as a people.

Jesus was very loving and open to those deepest in sin. He did not support or excuse their sin, but he met them where they lived. He was gentle, kind and gave them hope. He was harshest on the Pharisees -- people who had all the benefits of God's teaching without the heart of it. He was angered by their self-righteousness and hypocrisy.

Let me be clear -- I believe homosexuality is a sin. I do not waiver on this point. But gluttony is a sin. Gossip is a sin. Lust is a sin. If we are not willing to work with people who are dead in their sins, who won't even see themselves as being dead in sin, then we are useless. If someone calls himself a brother, a Christian, we are to instruct him, admonish him and encourage him with love to follow the Scriptures. In the church, we cannot tolerate willful, unrepentant sin. We cannot bless what God has called profane. But we can and must try to see every human being as someone created in the image of God and no less worthy than ourselves of His salvation. We can work and live among unbelievers and by our faith and example plant seeds of truth and hope in their lives, leaving it to God to make them grow where He wills.

110 posted on 02/02/2006 1:03:15 PM PST by Chanticleer (May you be gruntled and combobulated in 2006.)
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