Posted on 06/20/2015 7:38:06 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Pop singer Miley Cyrus recently slammed Christian conservatives for believing in "fairy tales" like the story of Noah's ark and argued that those who hold to a traditional definition of marriage should not be permitted to make laws within the United States. In a recent interview with Paper magazine, Cyrus, who appears nude within the publication, refers to herself as the "least judgemental person ever." However, the magazine notes that while she was raised in a Christian home and was baptized in a Southern Baptist church, the "Wrecking Ball" singer "maintains a particular contempt for fundamentalist lawmakers who rally against this sort of progressive, potentially life-saving changes [for the LGBT] community." "Those people [shouldn't] get to make our laws," Cyrus said of Christians who hold to a traditional view of marriage. - See more at: http://www.gospelherald.com/articles/55983/20150610/miley-cyrus-mocks-christians-who-believe-in-old-testament-fairy-tales-says-those-who-oppose-homosexuality-shouldnt-get-to-make-laws.htm#sthash.Rkum5Y2u.dpuf
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"I do not have to answer for others' actions--I only have to answer for mine."
Scales are not an excuse. I don't think I need to suggest that everyone review Romans Chapter One, but I will any how.
Regardless of others' ignorant views and misplaced compassion, God's viewpoint in that text and context is that He has given up people like Miley Cyrus on the basis of (eis in the foundational sense) moral uncleanness, vile affections, unnatural use of their bodies, same-gender arousal to gratify their reproductive apparatus, and reprobate minds, with not only doing those things, but having great pleasure in encouraging others to join them in reviling Christians and their commitment to the Lord.
If God has not saved them from their wickedness, then He has given them over to it, and Beloved John's mature spiritual counsel to immature disciples, according to what I read, is not to pray for such a one--don't waste your time. You might rather be spending the equivalent time praying for those who may yet be saved, and ministering to the saints who are being reviled and persecuted.
Plus, it is just as evil to commend religionists whose works-based plan of salvation is just as evil in its sincere and persistent desire to gain followers to their system as Cyrus does for her ways; I think we ought to pray for them, not with them.
WHAT???
I guess we can call all of our missionaries, pastors and teachers home.
The game is over!
More likely she will get arrested, go into Rehab and get religion.
But since you have...
1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God 2 the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the Holy Scriptures 3 regarding his Son, who as to his earthly life[a] was a descendant of David, 4 and who through the Spirit of holiness was appointed the Son of God in power[b] by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our Lord. 5 Through him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from[c] faith for his names sake. 6 And you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
7 To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. 9 God, whom I serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his Son, is my witness how constantly I remember you 10 in my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by Gods will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
11 I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong 12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each others faith. 13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters,[d] that I planned many times to come to you (but have been prevented from doing so until now) in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
14 I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. 15 That is why I am so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealeda righteousness that is by faith from first to last,[e] just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.[f]
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world Gods invisible qualitieshis eternal power and divine naturehave been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creatorwho is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know Gods righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
Yup!
Sinners have no hope!
5-10 years from now she’ll be doing hard core porn.
15-20 years from now after her 8th stint in rehab she’ll write a book recounting her shameless exploitation by agents, producers, directors and other Hollywood ilk, probably trashing her parents for their role too, and overcoming it through Christ’s salvation. Which she’ll make millions in advances and royalties off of.
100 years from now no one but a few historians working in very niche areas will have any idea that she even existed.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward,
not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
1 Corinthians 6
"Know you not that the unjust shall not possess the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,Nor the effeminate, nor liers with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall possess the kingdom of God."
And then he follows in the next verse with this:
"And such were some of you; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Spirit of our God."
This indicates that it is possible for "fornicators, idolators" "the effeminate" and "liers with mankind" as well as other slaves of vice, to repent and receive the Lord's mercy, and be purified, sanctified, justified.
I will pray for Miley Cyrus. All of us sinners need prayers.
1 Timothy 2:1
"I desire therefore, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men."
AHHHhhh...
We have a prophet I our midst!
AHHHhhh...
We have a prophet in our midst!
Dang!
Now just WHERE have I read all that before...?
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. 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.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
The time is now to quit mocking, LC. What we are talking about here is not primtive tribes or decadent cultures to which we send missionaries, this chat is about individuals who, knowing of God's Person, righteousness, and Gospel of redemption reject it forcefully. It is not my theory that God can and does reject them who reject Him, and gives tem up to their depravities;. It is God Who announces it plainly in His Word.
That is why faithful heralds of the Word of Faith, including missionaries (which every true disciple is), warn others that they can, and do, pass the point of no return while they are yet alive. It certainly must have been so with Pharaoh Ramses, Nero, Caligula, Mohammed, Torquemada, and Adolph Hitler, all determinedly sold out to Satan.
Doubtless the dedication of Bruce Jenner and Miley Cyrus exactly fit the description given in the examples of how to get God to leave one alone, as explicit detailed in Romans 1 for all to see. They might get along quite well with these Satanic leaders of the past, eh?
Jesus prayed for his disciples (including Peter who was to deny Jesus six times in that very night), but I do not see that He prayed for Judas Iscariot, or for Annas or Caiaphas, for that matter.
On the cross, he prayed for God to forgive the ones who did not know what they were doing. Do you surmise that His Cross prayer prayer applies now to those who know exactly what they are doing when they reject the Christ of the Cross about Whom they have been taught, and revile His disciples because of their dedication to Him?
After a while, your constant method of mocking gets a bit old; maybe to others who are the butts of your jokes also.
The key is "some," the few who were honest with themselves and knowingly did not reject redemption and reconciliation through His Son. Miss Cyrus does not appear to be in that select group, nor willing to admit she is deadly, Satanically wrong.
I will pray for Miley Cyrus. All of us sinners need prayers.
Go to it! We'll see if it works as well as for Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein. While you're at it, you might want to include the womyn Gloria Steinem and Chelsea Sayre, and any other transwomen you can think of. Or you could send them some evangelistic tracts or a cautionary letter regarding the end consequences of their ways.
Scolding me on this issue will probably not be very profitable in converting me to your views, I suspect--or your readers either.
I don't think your logic works out, taken in the whole Biblical view. If God alone saves, but gives one up, I don't think that individual then has much hope, going on.
Can a leopard change his spots?
Oh.
This only works ONE way; eh?
I'll add you to my prayer list.(I've gotta write these things down...)
I just read about John the Baptist in Mark this morning. The greatest man born of a woman was taken down by a Miley Cyrus type pole dancer girl and her mother.
Justin Bieber’s twin brother. Shut up and twerk!
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