Posted on 08/14/2013 7:02:28 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Robert Griffin III thinks the time is now for gay players to come out.
The Redskins star quarterback told GQ magazine that he feels the "window is now" for gay players.
"I think there are [gay players] right now, and if they're looking for a window to just come out, I mean, now is the window," said Griffin, who is recovering from offseason knee surgery. "My view on it is, yes, I am a Christian, but to each his own. You do what you want to do. If some Christians want to look at being gay as a sin, then thinking about other women, committing adultery—or any of those other sins that are in the Bible—those are sins, too. And God looks at all of us the same way."
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>>But the Masonic system is theological clutter at best
I have no interest in any Masonic system.
The exposure of recycled human religious nature, OTOH, is of self-evident value; especially whenever some object of Idolatrous worship attempts to legitimize their opinion using nothing more than a half-baked religious affiliation.
However I might (not sure yet) disagree with you slightly over the way this fellow (and all Christians) ought to approach it. I believe he should speak up for purity of body and soul and the power and promise of God to keep it that way, and that “if” people come out, he will approach them in love to share that good gospel news with them. This is a positive gospel. Saying it’s wrong is only a first step. Saying what’s RIGHT should follow, and sometimes it’s wise just to set gospel ambushes for Satan and not overtly oppose him too much.
OK, we may violently agree?
OK, we may violently agree? ... except that I don’t need your 574 page screed to DO it? I just need the Holy Bible!
>>The strength of faith has waned in the USA.
And that’s because the faith of the Free-Minded Individual has been surrendered by proxy to a cadre of religious parrots wearing vestigial plumage left over from the Roman/Babylonian/Egyptian/Chaldean... empires — who assert to the McSheeple that their opinions are the only true and infallible.
Well, stripping off all the verbal ornamentation you’ve furnished here, I’m sure that denominational affiliation does have a lot to do with this waning of faith. People are loathe to walk out of a congregation that’s headed hellward, out of inertia. It’s not the ONLY stumbling block. But it is one.
I think, except for gnatty details (again I don’t go for big man-written, railing screeds when the bible will do) we agree rather well in principle...
>>I just need the Holy Bible!
And Muslims just need the Koran.
Meanwhile the concocted exercise in religious sheeple-herding continues.
And I am also free minded. My freedom comes from the authority of Christ. I am not beholden to any denomination’s leaders. On the other hand I can share Christ with people in any denomination to the extent they don’t lean on the denomination. (For example. I’d give Roman Catholics dissent about the infallibility of the pope, and I’d give Protestants dissent about that there isn’t some pretty robust Christianity going on within the Roman Catholic church.)
you draw conclusions totally unwarranted by any of my comments
>>denominational affiliation
It’s more than denominational affiliation, it’s the patterned recycling of religious mythology among civilizations.
But the truth of that is something for you to render with your own eyes and free, honest, mind.
The Muslim example invalidates the Christian example?
Of course Christians need the Holy Spirit too in order to illuminate the Holy Bible. I’m taking this as an obviousness that you may have missed.
Do you believe I am a party to some “concocted exercise in religious sheeple-herding”? And if so, why do you believe so? I am not such a party.
With my eyes and my free, honest mind UNDER THE TUTELAGE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT... I accept Christ crucified for my sins. I accept the Holy Bible. I don’t need to wade around in crazy conspiracy stories that get me all unbalanced in focus like you appear to need to, however.
I am a universal, portable faith Christian.
The Muslim example is a religious example.
>>I’m taking this
You mean you pretentiously ASSUME.
>>I am not such a party.
Maybe, maybe not. You haven’t made it past page two.
The Holy Bible says the Holy Spirit is needed. This is not rocket science. I did not paste that teaching over the bible. Pretentiously assuming my keister....
Page two of a work that is focused on what? Is it an exposition of the Holy Bible? Or is it a whole school of red herrings that go nowhere?
>>Page two of a work that is focused on what?
Something for you to see with your own eyes.
Do you acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord with all dominion? Who exercises the dominion with patience and forbearance (which is why we won’t see entire governments under Christ until Christ returns) but who still has that dominion?
You’re also acting very cutesy about the content of the work you proffer. It could be something that monkeys typed for all you have told me. Surely you can summarize it in a nutshell if you have a valid case. I can summarize the Holy Bible in a nutshell: it is God’s story.
It’s a book of religious history.
“I’m taking this as an obviousness that you may have missed.”
Uhuh.
Because I won’t parrot your dogmatic onion to your liking, you pretentiously ASSUMED that I “must have missed” the work of the second person in the Trinity.
ASSUMED, Pretentiously; 1 each.
How?
You are using the old cliche about commenting about bad behavior unless one has their own house in order
Which pretty much kills criticizing bad behavior doesn’t it
Except racism...which shucks almighty can always be critiqued or claimed even by child molesters or wife beater as a worse offense
Bottom line is.....some of us view the rise and prevalence of homosexuality as an abomination best kept on the down low
Whether we ourselves are perfect or not
And all we have to do is look around to see the result of said decadence
It is a benchmark of culture rot and decline in all of recorded human history
And resisting that is...BTW...a cornerstone of the mission of this forum
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