Posted on 01/22/2014 9:30:46 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Advocates say it isn't enough for churches to enact policies to prevent child sexual abuse, but churches where abuse has already occured must be more vocal in helping police catch predators.
A victim support group held signs outside a Houston megachurch Jan. 9 calling for greater transparency about the reporting of child sexual abuse in Southern Baptist churches.
A former youth pastor...
A former youth minister...
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Calvinist doctrine has helped lead to this, just like Roman catholic ogam/myth has lead to the false belief that all of the so-called near-infinite works that Mary the mother of Jesus (and all the saints as well) will work on the behalf of Roman Catholics who will one day stand before the Lord and give an account...
Led to what? Excerpting a column that didn't require excerpting?
Are they going to do this to public schools? Frankly that’s where I’ve read most about disgusting sex crud than anywhere else. The Unions sure try to protect those teachers, too.
Just like I have said more than once now on threads: you cannot tell which ministers behind the pulpit are or aren’t saved. Period. You cannot differentiate between those who some say were “falsely saved” but somehow duped the church, and those who are “out of fellowship with God” but nonetheless still saved. These people are BACKSLID, or never saved to begin with -—— period.
Look at the the read that I posted yestereday. It lists A-G -— which bolsters what I am saying.
IMO part of the issue is mega-churches. So many people, how can you vet who your kids are spending time with? Do you really know more than 20-40 people in your church?
I have the same opinion of large high schools (4A and 5A’s here in Texas) how can 20-30 adults monitor 2000+ kids. They cannot. Easy step to fixing schools as far as behavioral issues is mandate that they cannot have more than 500-800 from 9th to 12th grade.
I’ve seen this sort of stuff before here at FR. Some RC - tired of the ever present daily threads about priests molesting children - decides to post whatever article they can find about Christians doing the dirty deed as well.
It does not end well. Not saying that is what LFC is doing here, but it looks suspicious.
You do not decide which columns do or don’t need excerpting.
You are either saved, never saved, or backslid. This bunk about “fallen out of fellowship with God” but nonetheless still saved has led to people making a license to sin out of grace and led to a plethora of sins, just like Roman catholic doctrine has led to a plethora of sins and a making a license to sin out of grace.
Baptists, etc, say “I shouldn’t gamble or drink, but I am going to do it anyway this weekened” but I am still saved, for example. I have heard this myself on gambling and drinking.
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Tu Quo Que argument “They did it too!” coming from you. Logical fallacy on your part.
And a Red Herring as well.
You undid your arguments with these logical fallacies... Please try again later. :)
I am not Roman Catholic, though.
As well, I am not a Calvinistically oriented, but neither am I Arminianism-based.
***A former youth pastor...
A former youth minister... ***
I remember a youth minister who said his biggest problem in church was that many of the teen girls actually threw themselves at him.
It seems to be a problem in all churches as the SDA church recently had the same problem.
I saw where you are coming from, so I decided to let you in on what I believed - that I am not RC. And I understand that you weren’t saying that I was RC, or trying to deflect from RC abuses. :)
BTW, did you notice that it was the Associated Baptist Press reporting on Baptists? Ironic...
I'm more interested in what you believe, instead of what you don't.
I am not saying they did it too and it makes it alright— I am just asking why they don’t protest the schools, too. That would be honest.
I don’t see how it is a red herring.
They = SNAP?
Yes.
That reminds me of the statements that some talking heads on TV made about how it was supposedly every young man’s dream to be with a young female teacher - as if it was a big deal since this was what so many young boys wanted.
The retort to that on TV from other talking heads (and an excellent and correct retort at that), was that the female teacher was an adult, and as such was responsible for saying no, or not starting anything up.
I believe in a fusion of Calvinism and Arminianism.
It isn’t eith calvinism or Arminianism, but BOTH/AND.
Jesus said to the Sadducees that the woman who married seven times would be maried to NEITHER the first NOR the 2nd-7th.
Jesus asked where John authority to Baptize came from - EITHER God OR man.
Jesus said that we render to BOTH to Ceasar AND to God that which belongs to them.
Sometims truth is either/or, sometimes Both/and, sometimes neither/nor.
IMHO, it is BOTH/AND in this case with calvinism/arminianism
If they’d just let these Baptist ministers marry.
Oh, wait...
Just because some misuse the doctrine does not invalidate it.
When we are saved, we are sealed with the Holy Spirit until the day of redemption. He is the guarantee of our redemption.
We are seated with Christ in the heavenly places and God has (past tense) transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.
Sin breaks the fellowship, but does not break the relationship. Your children do not cease to be your children when they disobey you. In the family at one minute and out the next.
No, the child is still the child, even when breaking the parent's hearts.
There certainly will be loss of reward for sin, and repercussions, even here on earth, but God knows our frame and remembers that we are dust. HE knows we're weak and fail and fall.That's the beauty of His mercy and forgiveness.
If we had to earn His forgiveness, it wouldn't be mercy and grace, it would be wages due for behavior performed.
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