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To: Mrs. Don-o; conservonator
Here's how he's different: Reverend Gay Pastor is convinced that his stand is Scriptural, and nobody has any authority to tell him otherwise.

I wanted to try to further illustrate my point here. Yes, this sodomite would try to state that his stand is Scriptural and that no one has the authority to tell him otherwise. You're correct in thinking that he'll try to take that position. However, that's not what 2 Timothy 3 states. It doesn't state that select portions of Scripture are breathed by God and are profitable. It states that ALL Scripture is breathed by God. Including that Scripture that labels sodomy as an abomination and those who practice it as an abomination in God's sight. That's where the authority to reject this doctrine as evil comes from. It doesn't come from a Church bureaucracy or the membership of the Church, it comes directly from God Himself via His written and recorded word.

The bureaucracy and the membership derive their authority from the Word, not the other way around, and when we fail to stand by this point, we wind up with sodomites molesting the altar boys, homosexual marriage being accepted as normal in the Churches, abortion seen as a woman's "right" instead of infanticide and all kinds of other forms of evil. There's sin in the camp and it started when man thought he understood the Bible better than the Author did.

25 posted on 11/16/2011 7:23:09 AM PST by Avalon Hussar
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To: Avalon Hussar
While I disagree with you on where authority lies, Scripture plainly states that the Church is the pillar and ground of truth and that it has authority to settle disputes: "Take it to the Church", and it was through the Church that our Lord gave the Scriptures and to the Church did he give teaching authority. We'll have to agree to disagree on these points I suppose. But I believe that we can fully agree that predators and those who cover or aid in any way those predators, be they a Bishop or head coach, should face secular justice just as surely as they will face eternal justice.
28 posted on 11/17/2011 7:15:52 AM PST by conservonator (God between us and the devil!)
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