Posted on 08/11/2007 10:08:38 PM PDT by KerryOnNoMore
“Nobody here is talking about endorsing homosexuality.”
You’re halfway there already with your surrender on terminology.
There are limits as to how much depravity one will tolerate.
“There is plenty in your posts that shows you have a special hatred of the sin of homosexuality and you know it.”
That’s entirely in your own fevered imagination, and the sad thing is, you don’t seem to know it.
“Why are you not to do what Jesus did?”
You’ve twisted this around from an act that tacitly endorsed blatant, unrepenant sin to “doing what Jesus did.” And there’s not a iota of validity to any of it.
“Answer this: it’s a yes or no question.”
No, it isn’t. It’s an attempt to mislead by sliding past an invalid equation of alcoholism or tax cheating with the open, defiant practice of sodomy.
Unfortunately, there may be some people gullible enough to walk down that twisted path; fortunately I’m not one of them.
“Actually, it’s not a greater sin. The Bible never says that.”
Actually, it is, and it does.
Totally agree!!!
My husband had an affair last year and we are attempting to rebuild. But no church better give him a daggone service, I guess. Or anyone who takes the Lord’s name in vain. Or lies or steals. There are no sins that are ‘better’ than the other, no saying my sin is less than yours.
seems the homo-enablers and trolls are still feeding on this thread.
There are sins that are worse than others, but all sins separate us from God.
When I wrote in post 162 that I minister to others no matter what their sin without compromising my position, dsc wrote that "there are limits as to how much depravity one will tolerate." I'm glad that God is not that way and that Christ died for me while I was still a sinner. Apparently -- and I'm being totally serious about this -- dsc believes that we should not attempt to bring homosexuals to know Christ because they are so depraved. dsc seems to be very clear on that in every post. I wonder what dsc thinks of the apostle Paul, who presided over the stoning of Stephen.
Besides, according to dsc in post 161, I'm already halfway there on endorsing homosexuality anyway. I didn't know that I was such a reprobate. Not only that, but I have a superiority complex according to dsc in post 160. I guess that I'm also a "homo-enabler" according to longtermmemory in post 167.
I have a confession to make: My friend John would have been my brother-in-law if he had lived 6 months longer. I had been dating his sister for some time before I met him. His niece is now my step-daughter. My wife had prayed fervently to God many times on how to bring John out of the homosexual lifestyle and into a relationship with God, and the feeling that she received each time she prayed was merely "love him." She obeyed as did her daughter and I. The rest of his family rejected him.
And, you know what? John repented, accepted Christ, rejected his former lifestyle, and began attending a Bible study that I was teaching at our house. A few months later he unexpectedly died at the age of 30 after a cold he had turned into a particularly bad form of pneumonia. My wife held him on his right side and I held him on his left as he went to be with God.
If dsc had known my friend, John, instead of his sister, niece, and me, John would be in hell instead of heaven. That would apparently have been fine with dsc because homosexuals are too depraved for Christians to associate with them.
I need to ask dsc whether being a Buddhist is one of those sins that is so depraved that I shouldn't even bother witnessing to them. I have a Vietnamese Buddhist friend who has gone through some tough times in life. We're close friends and he now even asks my wife and I to pray for him, though he hasn't rejected Buddhism. He is very open to discussing God and says that he's one the verge to accepting Jesus. However, if our resident expert dsc determines that Buddhism is so depraved that Buddhists are not worthy of knowing Christ, then I guess that I'll have to tell him that I can no longer be his friend and wish him the best of luck on his journey to hell.
What do you think? Should I stop telling and, more importantly, showing my Buddhist friend how much God loves him and that Jesus died for ALL of our sins so that we could be free? After all, I could be endorsing Buddhism and be a "Buddhist-enabler" just by being his friend.
Oh I see, they should stop having services for divorced and remarried people because it is a sin akin to being a homosexual.
Well thought out, great logic.
1. Please get the grammar right. That's "let him," not "let he." (Just as we say "Let me...," not "Let I...")
2. Please don't leave off the next line. It's critical to understanding the passage. What Jesus said next was: "Go and sin no more."
He threw the money changers out of the temple, didn't He?
Wonderful testimony.
Keep up the great work. Congrats.
“What do you think? Should I stop...”
Bearing false witness? Twisting events? Just downright lying your butt off? Why, yes, you should stop doing those things.
You are much more likely to bring homosexuals to the one who is inspiring your dishonesty than to Christ.
“dsc wrote that “there are limits as to how much depravity one will tolerate.”
Well, no, he didn’t. That was someone else. Still, I’m sure God is pleased by your false witness and calumny, since it is advanced in such a noble cause.
“Besides, according to dsc in post 161, I’m already halfway there on endorsing homosexuality anyway.”
That was an early estimate. Having seen the degree to which you bear false witness against those who disagree with you, I now think Satan’s influence over you is stronger than was at first evident.
“I didn’t know that I was such a reprobate.”
Not surprising. Satan blinds those he uses.
“Not only that, but I have a superiority complex according to dsc in post 160.”
Yes, I’d say so.
“I guess that I’m also a “homo-enabler” according to longtermmemory in post 167.”
If you’re not there yet, give it a few months. You’re on that road, already full of hatred and blind to reason, and completely casual about attributing to people positions they’ve never expressed...which is, after all, nothing but the tawdriest sort of lying.
You are absolutely correct and I sincerely apologize. You did not write that there is a limit to what depravity one will tolerate and I falsely, yet accidentally, attributed it to you. Please forgive me.
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