kingattax wrote:
“Christians Need to Prepare for Normalization of Gay Marriage”
No. those who support and sanction this perversion and abomination need to prepare for God’s judgement by repenting and seeking His forgiveness.
I agree! Submitting to this abomination(and Scripture calls it exactly that) amounts to bowing to Satan and denying the Word of God. Violence isn’t called for but avoidance and reproval of this blatant flaunting of Christianity certainly is. No violence is required to mark and avoid anyone who practices this vile lifestyle or anything that has to do with it.
Watch now! What is coming soon is making the Christian act of preaching the sinfullness of this lifestyle and these people unlawful and a “hate crime”. That would make it unlawful for ministers to preach the entire Word of God to their congregations. Anyone who allows a government or anyone else to prevent the preaching of the Bible is guilty of denyiing the Word of God. It’s that simple.
Many preachers have been dancing around the subject and avoiding it for decades. That’s why we find ourselves where we are today.
Hate the act and not the person? Proverbs 23:7 “As a man thinketh, so is he in his heart.”
Psalm 139:21 “Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD, and abhor those who rise up against you?”
Psalm 26:5 I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked.
I've witnessed our decline firsthand; the growing rebellion among the young adults in the Church, the rise of "Christian contemporary" rock music, the transformation of churches from houses of worship to centers of entertainment (complete with gymnasiums, playgrounds and "campuses,") the "business/marketing" mentality becoming the all-engrossing concern of the highest levels of leadership. It's absolutely tragic, and it has been deadly.
That's already taking place in western Europe. A Swedish pastor, or maybe he was Norwegian, I've forgotten which, who not too long ago preached a sermon condemning homosexual acts as sin was arrested and sentenced to one year in a penitentiary. Other pastors in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe have been arrested, but AFAIK not yet jailed, for the same "crime".
Give us Americans a few more years of legalizing every perversion known to mankind and it will become a felony offense to even mildly criticize homosexual acts, much less condemn it for being the capital crime against nature and nature's God that it really is. I say "capital crime" because God condemned the people of the ancient antediluvian world to death and hell thereafter for that same sin, see Romans ch 1, vv 24 through 32.
To make my belief about the issue clear, I believe that holy scripture condemns homosexual acts as sin, but having an inborn predisposition to practice homosexual acts is not in itself a sin. Homosexuality becomes sin when the homosexual individual acts on his or her predilection to practice homosexual perversion of God's design for the perpetuation of the human race by way of normal male-female sexual acts.