Posted on 02/23/2005 3:27:41 PM PST by PAR35
The Presbytery of Milwaukee voted 104-20 on Feb. 22 to approve Elisabeth "Eily" Marlow, a lesbian activist, for ordination as a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).
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Marlow was formerly employed by That All May Freely Serve, an organization that seeks the repeal of the denomination's constitutional requirements that prohibit same-sex marriages and the ordination of self-acknowledged, practicing homosexuals.
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Marlow has been employed as director of outreach of the Minnesota Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, an organization that promotes unrestricted abortions. She has also held a number of staff jobs in the denomination, including the PCUSA's United Nations Office and as a program assistant in Louisville, Ky., the headquarters of the denomination.
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I always look at the context of a verse in order to interpret it's meaning. In Leviticus 18, homosexuality is one of three sins mentioned, each given equal precedence as sinful. In order, God condemns child sacrifice (shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire), homosexuality (shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind), and bestiality (Neither shalt thou lie with any beast).
God then groups all three sins under the same warning: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you. In other words, God said "I destroyed the other nations that used to be in this land because of these sins, and the same warning applies to you"!
IF we are to say that homosexuality was given equal billing with child sacrifice and bestiality, and IF we are to believe that homosexuality is now acceptable to God in this current age, then we must believe that child sacrifice and bestiality are also acceptable in our current age. You cannot have it both ways: either homosexuality, bestiality, and child sacrifice are forever sinful abominable acts in God's sight, or all three are acceptable "alternative lifestyles".
A conservative, common sense interpretation of Leviticus 18 demands that we understand that all three acts were and are sinful in God's sight, contrary to His Will for mankind. Leviticus 20 is even more specific. The sins listed as forbidden are, in order, adultery (adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death), incest (man that lieth with his father's wife), non related incest (man lie with his daughter in law), homosexuality (man also lie with mankind), and intra-family fornication (man take a wife and her mother). All are given equal billing, all are equally evil in God's eyes. If homosexuality was only temporarily forbidden, then we can conclude that incest between parent and child is now acceptable. How foolish! None of these sins were temporarily forbidden, all were and are abominations in God's sight.
As to the Homosexual theologian charge that the dietary laws would have to be enforced if we enforce the Levitical code against homosexuality, this is mere smoke and mirrors. First, the dietary laws are not even represented in these Bible texts. Second, the dietary laws were just that, dietary laws, they were not moral laws (which the above texts represent).
God Himself rescinded the dietary laws for the sake of the Gentiles (Acts 10.14-15). But He never rescinded the command against these sins, in particular, the sin of homosexuality.
Finally, the reason that homosexuality (like adultery and incest) is no longer a sin that you must be stoned for is that we live in the era of Grace. Christ paid the penalty for all sin on the Cross of Calvary, even the sin of the homosexual.
In this era we do not stone sinners, we preach the Gospel of Christ to them. The homosexual, like the adulterer, needs the salvation that Christ can bring. They do not need to be stoned, they need to be saved so that they can "go and sin no more".
Yes, thank you!! We are doing them no kindness by thurning the other cheek so to speak, on their perversion. We are, in fact, allowing the spread of horrific and fatal deseases. And what are we doing allowing this indoctinating of our children in schools, if not child sacrifice???
No, making laws that endorse this lifestyle, especially for a church, is evil in itself!
Actually, four.
God condemns sodomy alongside incest, bestiality, and child human sacrifice.
The sodomites always make a lot about Jesus never explicitly condemning homosexuality. But then again, he never explicitly condemned incest, bestiality, or child human sacrifice either. I guess some basic understanding or willingness to abide by God's laws was assumed on his part.
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The Left lies about the bible:
In Jesus's own words:
Matthew 19
19:4
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,
19:5
And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be into one flesh?
II. WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES ABOUT MARRIAGE
A. BIBLICAL PASSAGES...
1. Jesus' teaching on marriage
a. Marriage was instituted by God at the beginning - Mt 19:3-4
b. Marriage was designed for those created male and female - Mt
19:4
c. Marriage is for man and wife, who become 'one flesh'
(produce offspring) - Mt 19:5
d. Marriage is a union that God joins, not the state - Mt 19:6
e. Man may try to put asunder, but only God puts asunder - Mt
19:7-9
1) One may divorce and remarry, but still commit adultery
- Mt 5:31-32
2) God allows divorce only for fornication, and remarriage
by the innocent - Mt 19:9
f. The kingdom of heaven may require some to 'make themselves
eunuchs' (i.e. remain celibate) - Mt 19:11-12
2. The apostles' teaching on marriage
a. Sex in marriage is honorable, sex outside marriage is not
- He 13:4
b. To avoid fornication, let each man have his own wife - 1 Co
7:1-2
c. All other discussions pertaining to marriage describe
husband-wife (male-female) relationships - 1 Co 7:3-48; Ro
7:1-4; Ep 5:22-33; Co 3:18-19; 1 Ti 3:2,11-12; 5:14; Ti 1:6;
2:4-5; 1 Pe 3:1-7
A. BIBLICAL PASSAGES...
1. Old Testament references
a. The Sodom incident - Gen 19:1-13
b. The Levitical prohibition - Lev 18:22; 20:13
c. The Gibeah incident - Judg 19:15-25
d. The perverted persons (male temple prostitutes) - 1 Kin
14:24
2. New Testament references
a. Women and men committing acts against nature - Ro 1:26-27
b. Practicing homosexuals and sodomites will not inherit the
kingdom - 1 Co 6:9-10
c. Sodomites (those who practice homosexuality) contrary to
sound doctrine - 1 Ti 1:10
d. Reference to Sodom and Gomorrah, going after 'strange flesh'
- Jude 1:7
Strong's Number: 4202
Original Word Word Origin
porneiva from (4203)
Transliterated Word TDNT Entry
Porneia 6:579,918
Phonetic Spelling Parts of Speech
por-ni'-ah Noun Feminine
Definition
illicit sexual intercourse
adultery, fornication, homosexuality, lesbianism, intercourse with animals etc.
sexual intercourse with close relatives; Lev. 18
sexual intercourse with a divorced man or woman; Mk. 10:11,
metaph. the worship of idols
of the defilement of idolatry, as incurred by eating the sacrifices offered to idols
Genesis 3:4
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Nice gathering of information you have there! It's most unfortunate we cannot not shout that from the rooftops, broadcast it on every television in the nation.
It's a nice dream though! Who was it, a while back, that challenged everyone to show him where Jesus spoke about homosexuality?
THANK GOD I MOVED OUT OF THAT HELLHOLE!
(I'd strongly recommend that anyone here that still attends a PC(USA) church leave it at once. I smell a ZOT of biblical proportions coming soon)
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