Rethpect me!!!
Posted on 09/09/2009 5:41:46 AM PDT by fwdude
Four billboards along Interstate 30 are sparking a debate over whether gays should be welcomed at local churches. A coalition of five churches that are part of a larger congregation of prodominatly gay Christians have put up four billboards on I-30 between Grand Prairie and Fort Worth with messages urging Christians to accept gays. One billboard reads "The early church welcomed a gay man" and another reads, "Would Jesus discriminate."
Reverend Colleen Darraugh with the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Dallas tells CBS-11 exclusively they've been the target of controversy since the billboards went up last week.
"There are people who have told us to re-read our bible, which is the very question we're asking others to do. We've had people say how dare you take the name of God in vein," Darraugh said. The billboards will be up through the end of the month.
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Homosexuals do not want "love" they want LUST. There is a big difference. "Love" doesn't cause someone an urge to stick their wiener in another guys anus, that is a sick perverted lust, and there is no commandment to do that.
"I am writing now...to plead: let us love one another. To love is to live according to his commandments: this is the commandment which you have heard since the beginning, to live a life of love." (2 Jn.5-6).
The homo-revisionists can “gayify” any historic character by repeating a lie long enough. Look at what they did with Abe Lincoln.
I certainly hope it’s not a swipe at Jesus.
Moses made them up?
2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
They can’t have their cake and eat it too. I don’t see the love the sinner and condone the sin working out too well for them.
I would not lump in all homosexuals with homosexual activists, and you do say "many" and not "all", which is good.
I just think that believers need to be careful to not judge outward sins more harshly than inward ones, and to show love and not condemnation.
It is only through knowing and experiencing true love that lust loses its allure. All broken people are deserving of being loved and experiencing the healing power of God through His Son. All.
When the Holy Spirit blocked Moses from crossing the Jordan river into Palestine with his people, it was so that God could show the world that Moses and the old covenant had no power to take anyone into heaven -- into the true Promised Land.
At Meribah's waters, Moses had vented a brief moment of arrogance. In his exasperation, he implied that he, personally, was the guide that would lead the House of Israel into the Pomised Land of Palestine.
But neither he, nor his Law had that kind of power. God, alone, was leading those tribes out of Egypt.
This fact had to be highlighted in the Law to show what this journey was leading to -- that the true exodus from captivity would be above ministers and above church law. It would be based entirely in Jesus Christ.
God allegorized this when He told Moses at the waters of Meribah, "Because you did not believe that I, myself, could proclaim my holiness in the eyes of the sons of Israel, you shall not lead this assembly into the land I am giving them." (Num.20:12).
The reference, of course, is prophecy because it relates to the future. It speaks of the Jewish rejection of the idea that God could come in person and proclaim His own holiness to eyewitnesses in Israel.
The Law of Moses refused Jesus when He appeared, and in that rejection lost its authority to lead.
Because he was serving God in biblical metaphor, Moses had to live out the whole metaphor. And it was a metaphor, because while Moses may not have been allowed to touch the soil of Palestine, he had no trouble being chosen for the kingdom of God in heaven.
We know for certain that this is true because when the transfiguration of Jesus occurred on Mt. Tabor, Moses was there with him -- proof that he had been resurrected. (Mt.17:3). So the injunction was brief.
An interesting aside here is that while Moses was resurrected, David was not permitted that honor. Peter, speaking on the day of Pentecost, told those assembled before him, "Brothers, no one can deny that the patriarch David himself is dead and buried: his tomb is still with us...for David himself never went up to heaven..." (Acts 2:29-34).
While David was rejected, Moses was chosen. In that choice, he was granted entrance to the true Promised Land. The land that he was not permitted to enter was merely an allegorical country that God had formed to display His holiness before men.
The rescue God initiated cannot be accomplished by any man-made theology. Jesus did it himself. God has redeemed us in person outside of the Law of Moses. This is what God was preparing the world to see when He chastised Moses at the waters of Meribah.
God has called every shepherd to account by taking all the sheep from them and putting Himself alone at the head of the flock. Ezekiel said that God would do this because the shepherds were serving themselves instead of the people they led.
"Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them, 'Shepherds, the Lord God says this: Trouble for the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves!"
" Shepherds ought to feed their flock, yet you have fed on milk, you have dressed yourselves in wool, you have sacrificed the fattest sheep, but failed to feed the flock. You have failed to make weak sheep strong, or to care for the sick ones, or bandage the wounded ones. You have failed to bring back strays or look for the lost. On the contrary, you have ruled them cruelly and violently. "
"Therefore I am calling the shepherds to account. I am going to take my flock back from them and I shall not allow them to feed my flock. In this way the shepherds will stop feeding themselves. I shall rescue my sheep from their mouths. I am going to look after my flock myself and keep all of it in view."
"I shall rescue them from wherever they have been scattered during the mist and darkness. I shall bring them out of the countries where they are; I shall gather them together from foreign countries and bring them back to their own land. "
"I myself will show them where to rest. I shall look for the lost one, bring back the stray, bandage the wounded and make the weak strong. I shall be a true shepherd to them." (Ez.34).
It was this call in the faith of Jesus Christ that returned the 10 missing tribes of Israel to God and made them the underlying framework of the Christian Church.
They have all returned to Jerusalem in fulfillment of Jeremiah's prophecy, and there they have erected their thrones in front of the city's gates. (Jer.1:15).
"There is a way that some think right, but it leads in the end to death." (Prov.16:25).
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness...For this, as stubble is prey for the flames and as straw vanishes in the fire, so their root will rot, their blossom be carried off like dust, for rejecting the Law of God Almighty, and despising the word of the Holy One of Israel." (Is.5:20-24).
"...to those who have been corrupted and lack faith, nothing can be pure -- the corruption is both in their minds and in their consciences. They claim to have knowledge of God but the things they do are nothing but a denial of him; they are outrageously rebellious and quite incapable of doing good." (Tit.1:15-16).
""It is not those who say to me, 'Lord, Lord', who will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the person who does the will of my Father in heaven." (Mt.7:21).
In short, it is a MISTAKE For Christians to apply anything of the old covenant to themselves. Christians are bound to the new covenant Christ gave us, nothing else. His Gospel contains ALL the laws we need to be concerned with.
Regardless, we are not justified by observing the law, but rather by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus as stated in Romans 3.
When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. - Col 2:13-14
My guess is they're referring to Paul, although there is no evidence to suggest he was gay. Some have said that he hated women, and therefore was gay. Personally, I think that's kind of stretching it.
We are all imperfect. While we were yet sinners Christ died for us. God’s perfection is Christ and if we put our trust in Him then we are fine. Abraham, Noah, King David, etc... were not sexually pure.
No one is a super duper Christian. On this journey of life God helps us to overcome those those bad things. It’s might be six months or it could be sixty years.
Homosexuality is like any other sin.
And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: - James 2:3
You'll soon learn that they deny Christ's divinity, his virgin birth, his miracles, his bodily resurrection, and his redeeming act on the cross. I've heard several liberal "churches" teach that all the miracles in the Gospels could be explained away, that the multiplying of the loaves and fishes was just a act of "sharing" by all the people assemble who had food put back. (???) The resurrection is depicted as just seeing "christ" in the people around you. All that bilge.
Except we have convinced ourselves that it cannot be changed. “If any man is in Christ, he is the same creation.”
Our spirits are a new creation but our body and soul has to get inline with God and we are stubborn creatures. Heck, it took Moses 40 years.
Rethpect me!!!
In other words, the Bible is a “living document” and doesn’t mean what it says it means. Hmm, where have I heard liberals use that phrase before?
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