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Joel Osteen Says Homosexuality is 'a Sin' but Won't 'Preach' on It
NewsMax ^ | 14 Jan 2014 | Courtney Coren

Posted on 01/14/2014 9:38:12 AM PST by Gamecock

Televangelist Joel Osteen says homosexuality is a sin but he doesn't "preach" about it and isn't against "anybody" who is gay.

"I believe that scripture says that it's a sin but I always follow up by saying you know what, we're not against anybody," he added.

"There's a lot of things, Larry, and I don't understand — so I just don't want to preach on it, preach about it," Osteen replied.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: homosexuality; megachurch; osteen; sin; televangelists
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1 posted on 01/14/2014 9:38:12 AM PST by Gamecock
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To: Gamecock

I guess being politically incorrect is a greater sin.


2 posted on 01/14/2014 9:39:29 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Gamecock
abortion is murder and murder is a sin...but it's okay...

Wow...what a premise...do anything you want....

3 posted on 01/14/2014 9:39:29 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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4 posted on 01/14/2014 9:39:37 AM PST by Gamecock (Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
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To: Huskrrrr

Amen to that. The problem with Feel Good religion is that when everyone feels good and doesn’t have their feelings hurt, they aren’t being taught that there is a wrong and a right.


5 posted on 01/14/2014 9:40:51 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Gamecock
[Larry King] asked how homosexuality can be called a sin, "if we don't know what causes it. You don't know why you're a heterosexual," he added. "There's a lot of things, Larry, and I don't understand — so I just don't want to preach on it, preach about it," Osteen replied.

What the what?

6 posted on 01/14/2014 9:41:15 AM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Gamecock

Can anyone imagine Jesus’ disciples refusing to preach about sin?


7 posted on 01/14/2014 9:41:43 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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2 Timothy 4:2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching....Unless you are Joel Osteen, then you can do what you want.
8 posted on 01/14/2014 9:42:14 AM PST by Gamecock (Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
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To: Gamecock

Lol

What a turd

Guess he figures some might pony upbtobhis coffers


9 posted on 01/14/2014 9:43:01 AM PST by wardaddy (wifey instructede today to grow chapter president beard back again....i wonder why?)
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To: Gamecock

My nephew has a fast growing church (Bible believing Spirt filled), about three miles from JO ‘church’.
He told me about half their growth are families leaving that church looking for Biblical teaching.


10 posted on 01/14/2014 9:44:11 AM PST by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: Gamecock

Looks like Joel has decided which pages he will believe and which he doesn’t.
Pray America is Waking


11 posted on 01/14/2014 9:44:31 AM PST by bray ("The Republic of Texas 2022" is coming in Feb)
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To: Alex Murphy

There’s no sense in making people feel bad about themselves. Sure it’s wrong but just remember God loves us just the way we are. That’s why we are going through that BIG WIDE gate instead of that narrow winding one that is more difficult.


12 posted on 01/14/2014 9:46:10 AM PST by BipolarBob
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To: Gamecock

You know it.


13 posted on 01/14/2014 9:46:40 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Gamecock

Isn’t this the same guy who said he wasn’t sure if Jesus was the one and only way to Heaven?

Why do people listen to him?


14 posted on 01/14/2014 9:46:43 AM PST by Thorliveshere (Minnesota Survivor)
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To: Gamecock

“Osteen was then asked if gay marriage annoys him.”

“It doesn’t annoy me,”

How in this world can a person who is a Christian say that Gay Marriage does Not annoy him?

That is just so unbelievable.


15 posted on 01/14/2014 9:47:14 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Gamecock

Coward.


16 posted on 01/14/2014 9:48:35 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: Gamecock
victoria osteen photo: VICTORIA OSTEEN'S abc_gma_osteen_edit_071016_mn.jpg

Keeping Vicky flying 1st class ain't cheap.

17 posted on 01/14/2014 9:49:01 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

Lol. True that.


18 posted on 01/14/2014 9:50:02 AM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: BipolarBob

Didn’t the Bible say something about camels through the eye of a needle.


19 posted on 01/14/2014 9:50:25 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Gamecock

So he is admitting he only preaches part of the truth, not all of it. Shame on him. Shame. Shame.


20 posted on 01/14/2014 9:50:43 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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