Posted on 06/02/2014 6:09:52 AM PDT by Bratch
Agree 100%. Very well said.
I think...and have discussed this with my wife...that this is the beginning of an outright attempt to outlaw Christianity. I know quite a few FReepers agree.
First, you force denominations to debate and vote on the issue. If they are weak and not standing on Scripture, they fold under the pressure to accept sin. If they are standing on the inerrant Word of God, they will reject sin. At this point those who wish destruction upon the Church bring the secular legal system into play. An attempt (perhaps several attempts) will be made to paint the Christian Church as a ‘band of hateful bigots’ that should not be allowed to continue unless they bow to the “right way to believe”.
I think that within the next 10 years, perhaps less, we may see the Church forced underground. Those who do not accept homosexuality will be persecuted, possibly imprisoned, and perhaps even killed for their beliefs.
If there’s any good to take away from this. it is the fact that in the end, no matter how hard the world (and Satan) fights, God wins. And...so do those who stand firm in their beliefs.
“Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
Cortez had a difficult choice: to stay true to traditional Christian beliefs, or to stay on good terms with his son. He chose his son. That was his choice. However, he does not have the right to impose his choice on his congregation. He should have stepped down as pastor.
Yep, fully agree that this is what is happening.
When you see these things come to pass, look up, for your redemption is nigh.
I agree
Jimmy Carter. . .now that’s a class act for you :)
“increasingly rigid in theology” If the Bible said it. . .no further questions.
We could have a so called SBC “separation of the sheep and the goats” before the Rapture.
More and more, I'm coming to agree with you. Up here in the People's Marxist Republic of Illinois, we're now officially cursed with queer marriage.
Perfect.
Disgusting apostates.
Pastor has paradigm shift, son tells him “I’m a homosexual offender”...errr...uh...GAY...yea, that’s the ticket...and a Lifetime Movie hug ensues. Everyone on the Planet of Women rises as one and shouts “hallelujah!”
Meanwhile, a small band of believers quietly think to themselves, “Let God be true and every man a liar.”
Good point. Doesn’t quite work out, does it? Delusion enables one to MAKE it work somehow, though.
You know the narrative wordage is interesting...like out of some third rate novel...as in “ she looked at me earnestly, her gorgeous blond tresses catching the sunlight and her blue eyes glowing like inner lit aquamarines...and MY HEART SKIPPED A BEAT as she held my hand and softly spoke...”I love you! Now can you pass the horse radish?”
Americans need to get their heads out of their “Utopias happily ever after” narratives, better known as their rear ends!
It's all predestined. Nobody has to decide anything.
This applies to many other issue facing the Church as well.
By the way, why the heck is this group having their convention in the heart of Sissy-Mary-Land, one of the capitals of sodomy?
But where does Cortez stand on allowing women to preach?
And those exceptions are extremely specific, and not a license.
Bingo. Some of the most obnoxious "Christians" I have encountered are the parents of gays who want to change the church to be more "inclusive", as if we were never taught, "Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to life, and there are few who find it." (Matt. 7:13-14)
However, IMHO the Protestant churches in the US have (since the so-called Sexual Revolution of the 1960s) fallen down terribly in the duty to teach marriage from the pulpit, to demand marriage classes before marrying people, and to exercise opprobrium when couples living together in sin or parading their relationships before one partner is divorced in front of the children. I have seen all these behaviors ignored or excused, especially when one or both of the "public sinners" is a popular parishioner, a Board member, a missionary or a big donor.
One of the outrages of the Episcopalian's "gay bishop" ordination in 2003 was that at that time, the ECUSA was still inquiring about the sex lives of engaged couples, and made a few of my divorced-but-engaged-again friends step down from official parish posts until the matter was resolved by marriage. The hypocrisy on that end was stunning. But since then, it seems that "anything goes" in many of the formerly mainstream denominations.
The Baptists should defrock this renegade pastor.
Long overdue.
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