Posted on 06/13/2021 3:58:20 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
The month of June has become a yearly event when the LGBTQ community celebrates their pride in their lifestyles. The rainbow, God's sign of His covenant to never again use a flood to destroy the earth, has now been appropriated as a symbol of pride in a lifestyle of sin.
On June 7, the Christian rock band Seventh Day Slumber shared an illustration on their Facebook page of Jesus embracing an LGBTQ person with a pink mohawk, the pride colors prominently displayed on the individual's shaved scalp.
The caption reads, "This picture is a powerful reminder of who God is, how God loves, and how none of us are out of His reach! You can come to Him in your hurt, you can come to Him in your pain, you can come to Him in your sin, you can come to Him in your brokenness. He loves you where you're at. He also loves you too much to leave you there. Be kind to one another. You never know what someone has been through."
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Two words: Sodom. Gomorrah.
I don’t know if I spelled them correctly, but y’all get the point.
Jesus loves all sinners not just some of us. If you read the text it is not an endorsement of the lifestyle
Unless you repent, you will not be forgiven. "Now go, and sin no more."
That’s the problem.
Heretics will claim He does endorse the behavior because “Love” is involved.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Romans 1:26-27
Ephesians 2:1-10
I personally know many people who say they are “Christian” that have no problem with the behavior.
They believe this to their folly.
If they just added five words to that.
“Go and sin no more.”
Amen! And all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23
Why are they getting bashed for preaching the truth?
they are right though that a) Christ loves them and b) he loves them too much to leave them there. They MUST repent and turn to Him.
The lifestyle is swinful and abhorrent to God it is not OK
but this is what the band said. - “ You can come to Him in your hurt, you can come to Him in your pain, you can come to Him in your sin, you can come to Him in your brokenness. He loves you where you’re at. He also loves you too much to leave you there. “. That is biblical and shows Christian love. You come to Christ as you are and He makes the changes…. none are to sinful to come to Him. If you truly are His you will repent and turn from sin not celebrate it
The message of the Gospel is to carry your cross and turn from sin.
We agree.
The simple reply is that homosexuals do not love each other. Love does not destroy.
It all started with that band camp thing.
You won’t have any disagreement from me on the premise of the quote or what you said.
But there are folks out there who will take what was said and run with it as a stamp of approval and never even attempt to change anything.
You could expand that out to hook up culture among heterosexuals as well.
The end of that road ends in destruction too.
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That’s my reading of it as well.
Denying the flesh is everybody’s battle.
Love says why people can be forgiven. It’s why your proverbial Alice can believe certain impossible things before breakfast.
Holiness explains why coming “just as I am” (as in the old song) must be with repentance rather than demanding you’re okay without repentance just because you claim to have come.
No where in Scripture is the Lord described as love, love, love though He is described as “Holy, Holy, Holy”. His Holiness determines the limit for what love will do.
I can prove this.
The third temptation in the wilderness was one where Satan basically offers universal salvation for humanity and all Christ has to do is give up on whom He is, give up His Holiness to worship the Devil.
Here Holiness trumps love and so Christ says: “Get away, Satan! It is written: ‘You shall worship the Lord your God and only Him shall you serve.’”
If Holiness trumps love even when every last one of us was on the line then of course it trumps love if some particular person wants to play church and be unrepentant.
Paul, after listing those who cannot enter the kingdom, immediately follows by saying and such were some of you.
Repentance is possible, God can make proverbial camels to pass through the eye of a needle, and with repentance and the power of the Spirit people can the be a “such were you”.
But if someone wants to be a “such am I still” then there has been no repentance.
Here, looking at the picture, notice the look in the guy’s eyes? The shock? Notice that Christ is the one crying?
How many are those (not just homosexuals) that spend their whole lives actually trying to push Christ away so they can have their sin compared to those who take hold of Christ (meaning they have to let go of sin)?
Oh, Jesus loves them. They just make him really sad.
RE: Jesus’s love for the LGBTQ Community
This is of course, a TRUE Statement. Jesus died for EVERY person.
However....
The issue of course is HOW is this love manifested? If they’re implying that Jesus will tolerate and turn a blind eye to homosexual sex because He loves them then they’re deceiving themselves. Love does not tolerate a destructive and sinful lifestyle.
Jesus did not tolerate the adulterous woman. He told her to go and sin no more. This message applies to anyone who has sex not in conformity with of God’s designed plan.
“Christian rock band” is an oxymoron to begin with.
No ACTUAL Christian would do this.
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