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To: Cronos
This is crazy and looking at the picture of the, ahem, lady in post 1 makes me think that saying no to women pastoresses is the right approach, not because of that little step in itself but for where it leads to.

While I naturally agree that this pastoress should never have been ordained, it is interesting to see just exactly how depraved some of the Reformation Churches have become. While I may agree with a good portion of the theory behind their Theology, such as salvation by Grace through Faith, the fruits that they have born have effectively destroyed their witness. The root of the issue can be directly traced back to their rejection of Holy Scripture as the source for final authority in a Believer's life.

I believe it to be a case where the Reformation Churches, in a desire to remove as much of the questionable rituals and abuses of power of the Roman Catholic Church as possible, threw the baby out with the bathwater by rejecting not only the authority of the Church in a Believer's life, but also the authority of the Holy Scriptures. Now I'll grant you that it didn't happen right away, but the underlying attitude of liberty at all costs eventually led to licentiousness and we all know where that leads eventually.

32 posted on 06/21/2011 6:55:54 AM PDT by paladin1_dcs (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: paladin1_dcs
I think the gay problem started fairly recently. I personally think that it started with letting in pastoresses. This lead one thing to another and eventually to this.

No comments on the other details :) because I see this issue as not a "ooh, lookit the slimey ....." rather as a Christian problem affecting me too -- the media don't really care about our differences, to them we are just standing in the way of the nice, happy gay folks just getting married.

33 posted on 06/21/2011 6:58:43 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.)
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