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To: Millee

Though I attend and ECUSA church, and I believe God's Word when it calls homosexual activity an "abomination" (about the most evil thing you can do...), honestly, I hope the homosexual lobby wins this one.


Right now, as one of my (conservative) rectors put it, it's the "institutional liberals vs. the homosexual activist liberals." If the institutional ones win--it will be a fudge--JUST enough to keep the world-wide Anglican Communion from immediately falling apart, and both institutional and homosexual liberals will continue to persecute faithful Episcopal congregations and priests. It's been looking like the institutional liberals have the upper hand over the homosexual activist ones...but I think it would be entirely fitting if, as it says in Romans regarding homosexual idolators: "God gave them up..." meaning, God ALLOWED people to follow their evil desires, which then brought about natural consequences....

For example, if friends and relatives "give up" a drunkard...allowing him to buy and drink all that he desires, then he will eventually destroy his liver, along with his overall health--leading to serious sickness and early death. Of course sometimes friends and relatives must do that--just to allow a drunkard to see where his addiction will lead--so he will (hopefully) become horrified at what he is doing, and will then willingly seek help--before his life is totally wrecked.

God does the same to persons involved in willful sinful behavior--his allowance to do (and get away with) evil behavior is actually harmful to themselves--and perhaps will lead them to the despair necessary before they will willingly seek any help.

Personally, I think AIDS (and other STDs) are this kind of "gave them up" issue, a "receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error." as St. Paul puts it. (Romans 1:27)

NOT so much to subject people to "wrath" rather, that such natural harmful results of evil (and unhealthy) behavior will shake people to their senses--reflecting that an eternity awaits those who follow such behavior FAR worse than the worst case of AIDS. In this sense harmful STD diseases, and even mental disease and depression are signs of God's mercy--warning signs that people better turn around and accept the mercy offered in following Christ.

SO, I for one am currently praying that God will "give up" the apostate bishops of the ECUSA church, in order to shake it up to its core--allowing the apostate to increase their appostasy, so that the faithful will get serious and drastic, saving themselves and their families from Sodom.


12 posted on 04/10/2006 8:35:35 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: AnalogReigns

"Though I attend and ECUSA church,..."

Do your tithes go to fund these people?


14 posted on 04/10/2006 11:19:28 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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