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Bishop Jakes, Could You Clarify Your Stance on Homosexuality?
Townhall.com ^ | August 10, 2015 | Michael Brown

Posted on 08/10/2015 6:00:18 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/10/2015 6:00:19 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

JD Jakes and ALL of his ilk are after ONE THING, MONEY!


2 posted on 08/10/2015 6:08:45 AM PDT by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: US Navy Vet

Someone bigger than me once said, A HOUSE DIVIDED CANNOT STAND.


3 posted on 08/10/2015 6:12:26 AM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: Kaslin

Jakes is a hustler, he will do whatever the fascist Democrat Party wants him to.


4 posted on 08/10/2015 6:20:34 AM PDT by stockpirate (A corrupt government is the real enemy of the people.and media)
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To: Kaslin

Jakes’ position is crystal clear. Only a person who doesn’t want to believe it would require “clarification.”

“Bishop”....pfffft


5 posted on 08/10/2015 6:28:20 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))
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To: Kaslin

God’s Word does not evolve.


6 posted on 08/10/2015 6:30:19 AM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: exit82

Amen to that!!


7 posted on 08/10/2015 6:37:20 AM PDT by mothball
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To: Kaslin

T.D. Jakes is a oneness Pentecostal and therefore is not s Christian.


8 posted on 08/10/2015 6:46:15 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: rovenstinez

Exactly, hirelings like TD Jakes need to get right with God! Their departure from the faith is destroying Christianity in America. Light has no part with darkness...and Christians are not to be unequally yoked with false teachers. Don’t forget, Jesus was hardest on the Pharisees. They were the “Bible conservatives” of the day, but they were headed for hell because of their rejection of God’s Word.


9 posted on 08/10/2015 6:50:00 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Kaslin
You characterized your position on homosexuality as “Evolved and evolving,”

"...but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way."

And now, as the harvest draws near, worldly winds begin to winnow the wheat from the tares.

10 posted on 08/10/2015 7:03:52 AM PDT by GBA (Just a hick in paradise)
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To: US Navy Vet

Yup. Mega-churches are a business, designed to bring in as many paying customers as possible. So whatever becomes acceptable to the general public is A-ok.


11 posted on 08/10/2015 7:06:22 AM PDT by over3Owithabrain
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Many come but some don’t pay.


12 posted on 08/10/2015 7:10:40 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: Kaslin

Bishop Fakes


13 posted on 08/10/2015 7:29:01 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Romans Nine
You stated your belief that homosexuality is a “complex” issue

What's so complex about the issue? The bible, aka God's Word, is not ambiguous about the issue, He spells it out as clearly as he does any other sin.

LEVITICUS 18:22 "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

Leviticus 20:13 "If a man also lie with mankind, as he lyeth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death"

What part of those versed doesn't he understand? Seems pretty clear to me.

14 posted on 08/10/2015 7:37:28 AM PDT by epow (Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Kaslin
According to the Scriptures, is homosexual practice sinful in God’s sight?

It is an abomination to His commandment to be fruitful and to multiply.

Can you be in an active homosexual relationship and be a true follower of Jesus at the same time?

Turning back to G_d starts with penitence. How that qualifies in His eyes I do not pretend to know. I do know that He knows us by our fruits, one of which is certainly by procreation.

15 posted on 08/10/2015 7:57:29 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (Donald Trump is Ross Perot, with hair.)
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To: epow

Wrong person FR friend.


16 posted on 08/10/2015 8:04:49 AM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: epow
For those who contend that the Old Testament law is superceded by New Testament grace, here's what Paul wrote by divine inspiration.

Romans 1:27 - And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

Chapter 1 of Paul's letter to the Roman Christians cites several of the most egregious sins of the people who lived prior to the flood, and cited homosexual acts performed by both men and women as one of the most offensive to God's holiness. I would think that a man who claims to be called by God to proclaim the Gospel of Christ would know that as well as a layman like myself.

17 posted on 08/10/2015 8:17:57 AM PDT by epow (Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants. Benjamin Franklin)
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Didn’t he son get busted for soliciting sex from men in a park?


18 posted on 08/10/2015 8:20:21 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Kaslin
"He has told you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God?"Micah 6:8

We can't make the Word of God conform to our ideas. We get inspiration, thinking it is must be God directing us, and run with it.

God's word never changes. The word doesn't evolve, but our understanding of it does. It is useful in every stage and every problem of life. It doesn't contradict itself either. The bottom line is if we already know the answer to what is good then God is expecting us to use the knowledge, not ask the same question because we want a different answer.

You can't be "walking humbly" while looking for a way to make God suit your purpose. Jakes wants God to conform to something that His word has already said is wrong.

19 posted on 08/10/2015 8:20:37 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school)
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To: epow

That does not remove the fact that the Leviticus reference is inapt. Different audience. Some people address the phenomenon, not with the focused anger of God that would deliver if at all possible, but with the rage of man that tries to heap up any straw of condemnation to get it out of his hair.


20 posted on 08/10/2015 8:21:04 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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