FAIL
can one man create?
Posted on 03/21/2012 5:51:35 AM PDT by IbJensen
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, March 20, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Former president Jimmy Carter has been strongly identified as a "Born Again" Christian and as a liberal Democrat for nearly five decades. He is once more blending those roles as he promotes "his" latest book, his own study Bible.
The NIV Lessons from Life Bible: Personal Reflections with Jimmy Carter contains the full text of the New International Version of the Bible and the former president’s prayers, reflections, and asides.
During his book tour to promote a study of the Scriptures, Carter mentioned he supports same-sex "marriage."
President Carter told Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, senior religion editor of The Huffington Post:
Homosexuality was well known in the ancient world, well before Christ was born and Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies. (Emphasis added.) However, he said he drew the line, “maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people."
"If a church decides not to, then government laws shouldn't require them to," he said, adding his own church accepts "gay members on an equal basis."
When Raushenbush pressed him about whether he believed the Bible is God’s word, Carter answered, "the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them."
"There are many verses in the Bible that you could interpret very rigidly," Carter said, "and that makes you ultimately into a fundamentalist."
"Fundamentalists," he wrote in his 2005 book Our Endangered Values, tend "to demagogue emotional issues" and "are often angry and sometimes resort to verbal or even physical abuse against those who interfere with the implementation of their agenda." Carter applied this term to figures as divergent as the Ayatollah Khomeini and Pope John Paul II,toatheist neoconservatives and his fellow Baptists.
He contended the "mandated subservience of women by Christian fundamentalists" contributes to the Islamic practice of female genital mutilation.
Carter wrote that he exchanged harsh words with the late Pope John Paul II during a state visit over what Carter classified as the Pope’s "perpetuation of the subservience of women." He added, "there was more harshness when we turned to the subject of 'liberation theology."
The former president, who has released recordings of the Sunday School classes he teaches and written previous books about the Bible, disassociated himself from the Southern Baptist Convention in 2000. He and former President Bill Clinton attempted to realign the Baptist faith in a more liberal direction by calling for a new Baptist convention in 2008. The formation of this new Baptist body, he wrote, constituted an "historic event for the Baptists in this country and perhaps for Christianity."
Carter, whose single term in office was marred by turbulence at home and abroad, has denounced those who disagree with his political views in strident terms.
Pro-lifers, Carter wrote, "do not extend their concern to the baby who is born." He instead suggested the nation support contraceptive sex education, taxpayer funding of international "family planning," and embryonic stem cell research.
In addition to nuptial vows, Carter encouraged the military to end the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" policy in 2007, and in 2010, he told the website Big Think it was time to /www.lifesitenews.com/news/jimmy-carter-weve-had-a-black-president-now-its-time-for-a-gay-one">elect "a gay person" president.
Jimmy Carter is a man who raises doubts in my mind abaout a doctrine I firmly believe: Once saved; Always saved
Matthew directed Torah observance wherein homosexuality is described as “abomination”, no matter how much carter would try to alter it.
I’m surprised the KJV doesn’t burst into flames when Jimmah touches it.
I don't know. But if everyone NOT in his right mind buys a copy, Bill Gates will look like a beggar-boy in comparison.
Point well put.
I know you posted the whole thing but I like to go to the source to print out stuff. I did find it by Googling “Life Site News”.
It likely contains the gist of the vain laborious attempts by liberal pro homosexual polemicists who lust to negate the Biblical injunctions against homosexual relations, and even find sanction for them. And which stratagems have the effect them of disallowing the authority of Scripture itself.
An extensive examination and refutation of such attempts can be seen here: http://peacebyjesus.witnesstoday.org/Homosex_versus_the_Bible.html
Jimmy, John 8:44 has your number:
“You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Interesting that Carter uses the old “Jesus didn’t talk about homosexuality” crock. I’ve only ever seen that from leftwingers and God-haters, and yet Carter calls himself a Christian.
In effect, he’s saying that Christ, who was God in flesh, denies the truth of His own word. What other parts of Scripture does Jimmy think Jesus would deny?
Messing with the Word of God is like playing with fire and he is going to get burned very badly !
Impossible. Obama's father was an African bigamist.
If you’re not familiar with it you’ll find that Life Site News is an excellent source of well-written articles of substance.
Not everything that Jesus said was written down (see John 21.25)
Carter should read Matthew 5.18 ("until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall pass away from the law, until everything comes to be"), or Jesus' own words about marriage in Mark 10.6-9, which do not leave any room for same-sex "marriage."
FAIL
can one man create?
bump
He is what he has always has been...
When I found out that he and Clinton were starting their own Baptist church to supposedly rival the SBC, I knew he wasn’t one of us.
He failed. And, that’s a good thing.
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