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To: HiTech RedNeck

>>Not if you’ve accepted the salvation of Christ.

By encouraging others to unrepentantly live in open abomination of nature?

Your gospel sounds more like “Praise be he who permits the forbidden” than GO AND SIN NO MORE.


137 posted on 08/16/2013 8:16:37 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: TArcher

I encourage others to venture into God’s light. Remember the promises of God are yeses — not noes. If someone is preaching a mixed message then yes, the listener should be discerning. And should furnish correction in kindness, patience, and grace if he can. But storming in there in your own power — which it looks like you are doing — only muddles the situation worse. Better just to leave it alone if that is all you can do at the time.

Some people have so little faith in God that they are afraid to venture into the promises for fear they will fall and do a verboten act. That’s not how God works and I have proved it personally. Failures SHOULD be addressed, but not by blaspheming the one who failed (even yourself). Rather the failure should be taken to a Lord who always forgives and sets the person who had failed on a new heavenly path.

We’re talking about how to recover from failure here. God cuts our failures short if we let Him.


141 posted on 08/16/2013 11:00:30 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: TArcher

Here, let me give you a more concrete view of what is in my mind here, and I think I have the mind of Christ.

Your “gospel” says “Rail at the homosexual sinner.”

My gospel says to the homosexual sinner, “Sincerely seek to glorify God with your body and you will be amazed. Keep it dedicated to the purposes for which God made it.”

Now that isn’t rocket science is it? But God honors all attempts to glorify Him even if they fail... because the failures when taken back to Him and not wallowed in are forgiven, the person receives the wisdom of God without reproach, and the person will do a bit better next time. This is a process that when faithfully followed WILL effect Jesus’ “Go and continuously be stopping your sinning” [the literal meaning of the citation you quote]. This is NOT what you seem to think it should be which is “OK! YOU GET EXACTLY ONE MORE CHANCE! OTHERWISE YOU GO TO HELL!”


142 posted on 08/16/2013 11:34:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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