Posted on 12/18/2013 3:01:35 PM PST by James R. Aist
We should all be aware that there are many people who name the name of Jesus but are not helping homosexual born-again Christians become who Christ really wants them to be. I will not belabor this point, but I will call out these "wolves in sheep's clothing" for what they are, based on what they are doing, regardless of how well-intentioned they may be. Firstly, there are those who seem to have only condemnation, and no compassion, for those who have turned out to be homosexual. They are quick to point out the sinfulness of homosexual behavior, but seem to ignore the fact that God loves homosexual people and wants them to repent and receive the good news just as much as He wants the rest of us to do so. Secondly, there are the purveyors of "gay theology", who tell homosexual people that God approves of homosexual sex and that it is not necessary for them to repent in order to spend their eternity in heaven (3). And thirdly, there are those who teach the "gay gospel", saying that, although God considers homosexual sex to be sinful, he does not require repentance in this case because His grace somehow gives homosexual people a dispensation, or exemption, that will enable them to spend their eternity in heaven despite their sinful lifestyle (4). Many of the homosexual, born-again Christians have believed these heresies and will, therefore, have to reject them in order to repent and become the men and women that God intended them to be all along.
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Good comment; I agree wholeheartedly.
I don’t have a blog.
Did you read and understand all that was said in the article? It appears that you did not.
Agreed.
1 John 1:9-10. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.” You and I continue(d) to sin after were born again. “There is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”, not because we no longer sin, as you say, but because our sins are covered by the blood of Jesus.
I know, I was just referencing that some on FR consider to be the greatest possible evil. ;-)
I agree. However, we must try to follow Jesus, who had compassion, even toward the vilest of sinners.
You got it!
That’s right.
If you must be a pure-gospels man, which is a bible distortion but I am working with what I have, you might note Jesus himself stated there was but one unforgivable sin.
Typically, the most vitriol is dispensed by people who are hypocrites.
Has the person who has committed the sins, accepted the salvation promise.
If so, we can then counsel and edify that person in Christ. All our wind would just be wasted if that person has not accepted the salvation promise.
Jesus ate with sinners to get them to repent and believe. That is different from eating with Christians who are willfully sinning.
This works, if the salvation promise has been accepted.
We are shy to accept the power of the salvation promise and that is why we try to class certain sins as being impossible for a Christian to commit (and usually, conveniently, those are sins we don’t believe we commit).
But the acceptance has to be real. The work of the Spirit will begin to tell in that person’s life. That person will end up being called short on his or her sins if so.
It is difficult to describe because worldly language does not have good terminology for it.
“Who are willfully sinning.”
Are you sure every act of sin was “willful”?
Does the phrase “acted ignorantly in unbelief” ring a bell to you... really, Christians who are wallowing need to be counseled about the conquering power of Christ. To furnish what is missing in their faith so that the spiritual deficiency represented by sin may be made up.
To say that this is one area of wallowing that Christians can’t be helped with... let me put it bluntly. It’s cheering for Satan.
It's a choice.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Show me where this phrase is used in relation to a Christian. Paul used it about himself, describing his behavior has a unbeliever, not as a beleiver.
Salvation is by faith not works.
We are saved now when we put our faith in Jesus.
You are not preaching the gospel of grace of Jesus Christ.
You are preaching a works based religion which cannot save anyone any more than the Law did.
What you are preaching is no different than what Catholicism teaches, that you find out when you get there.
WRONG!!!!
We can see that it always applies in this mortal coil. Because not all our action is within the scope of our faith till we come through the pearly gates. You may forget that Paul said that he once knew Christ “according to the flesh.” That’s not faith... that’s “RELIGION.” This Christ was “RELIGION” to him as a new believer.
No Christian pops into perfect obedience short of the pearly gates, that is a simple fact that is vouched for by the bible all through.
Their deliverance is already credited to them, because it is ironclad. “No one shall snatch them out of My hand.”
This is something that is very difficult for us to give Christ credit for. That He can offer so seemingly much leeway in how a Christian lives and yet wrap that promise up. But, as the psalmist writes, all his days are written in God’s book before one of them comes to be. How to mesh that with the ability to choose implies a degree of interaction between God and man that is beyond our mortal minds’ ability to figure out. We tend to keep our ideas of causation within the time line of this mortal coil and so we are left with the endless Arminian/Calvinist debate. Give God credit for the ability to work causation in a direction we’d call backwards, and the problem vanishes.
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