A Christian Message to LGBT Americans

Townhall.com ^ | June 14, 2016 | Michael Brown

[Mrs. Don-o]

I’ve never used an image program. I don’t even know if I have one.

[Elsie]

It means they were murdered for no reason.

I'm sure the killer had HIS reasons.

[Elsie]

?

[Elsie]

I got my first one when it was $5 ona rack at the local grocery store; umpteen years ago.

Let me look to see if I can find a 'free' one on the 'net...

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't know what that didn't take:

>God's Gonna Cut You Down (2 min video)

[Elsie]

Let me look to see if I can find a 'free' one on the 'net...

http://www.gimp.org/    (Commands look quite similar to PRINTShopPro)

 

Here's a gob of them!!    http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/photoshop-alternatives-another-14-free-image-manipulation-tools/

 

MORE!!   http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/pixelbasedwin/tp/freephotoedw.htm

[Elsie]

I’ve never used an image program.

Not even the PAINT one that came with PC's?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Open-Paint

https://www.bing.com/search?q=paint+for+pc&form=EDGEAR&qs=PF&cvid=df83be49cf7547278120107db4fdb8d1&pq=paint%20for%20pc

[servantboy777]

Gays should know that millions of Christians believe that our sin is no less in the eyes of God. I hate sin, even my own. I am a sinner in need of the saving grace of my Savior...every single day.

If you are gay, you believe in God, then you should know that your battle is not with us. We should not judge, but we cannot separate ourselves as believers from the word that is contained within the bible. If we did, we would no longer be followers of the way. Christians.

We can only share what we know/believe. I for one have enough on my own plate in regards to my walk with the Lord. At the end of the day, it is not me and you and God. It is you and God alone.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

Colon is Christopher Columbus’s last name in Spanish.

It definitely does NOT have the same meaning in Spanish as it does in English - LOL!

[HLPhat]

What sort of event did God hold on the scorched Earth where Sodom and Gomorrah, were?

It wasn’t a group hug fest.

[HLPhat]

That’s a load of semantic manure.

The Creator of the Universe could’ve replayed the events in slow motion and pointed out every detail if He wanted to.

And He will.

[Mrs. Don-o]

THANK YOU!

[Mrs. Don-o]

As it is written, God sent His only-begotten Son, not to condemn the world, but to save it.

This in no way gives the big OK to sin---

but it does mean that the Good Shepherd goes after the straying sheep with open arms, and not with a butcher knife.

Look, I have a young relative who told all the aunts and uncles he was gay when he was 14. I pray a lot for him, and I have told him that this is not the path God wants for him, it will hurt him deeply and he will not end up with the love he so longs for. I can only get through to him, effectively, to the extent that he trusts me and knows that I'm there FOR him, not AGAINST him.

? Trust comes first.

Truth, without trust, is just a jab: its results are like those of a vaccination jab: the person gets a tiny dose and then develops an immunity against it: the person is inoculated against the Truth.

Truth without Trust, without Love, is useless --- and that's the truth.

[HLPhat]

>>I've yet to find the message of love in Genesis:

Gen 3:15
15 And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your offspring and hers;
he will crush your head,
and you will strike his heel."
NIV

Who is the seed that will crush the serpents foolish head?

Suffering the penalty for sin of the world upon Himself so that we can be free from sin - that's Love, and grace.

The problem with the reprobately minded Rainbow "culture" is that they've REJECTED that grace; preferring to pretend they have PERMISSION to sin instead of forgiveness from it.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Amen. This is exactly right, HLPhat.

[HLPhat]

Rom 1:26-32

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
KJV

 

Reprobate

— that which is rejected on account of its own worthlessness (Jer 6:30; Heb 6:8; Gr. adokimos, "rejected"). This word is also used with reference to persons cast away or rejected because they have failed to make use of opportunities offered them (1 Cor 9:27; 2 Cor 13:5-7).

(from Easton's Bible Dictionary, PC Study Bible formatted electronic database Copyright © 2003, 2006 Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved.)

Some folks are foolish enough to think they can "share a degree of respect and understanding" with the culture of reprobately minded individuals who operate in the spirit of anti-Christ against the body of ALL who are repentantly and gracefully forgiven - which is Christ's true church.

Other folks, not so much.

Maybe the question "recovering" feminists in the domain of state-established/establishing religious Jesuit/Papal dogmatism should be asking is:

What was it that provoked such a punitive response by God -- giving their self-worshiping, state-established, idolatrous culture over to a reprobate mind, in the first place?

Per Romans Chapter 1 God does not appear to be expecting  "respect and understanding" with those He's given over to the reprobate due penalty for their idolatrous choices.

Furthermore Jesus, The Word, specifically instructs us to REBUKE the sinner: 

Lev 19:17

17 "'Do not hate your brother in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in his guilt. 
NIV

But rebuke, in Love:

Lev 19:18

18 "'Do not seek revenge or bear a grudge against one of your people, but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord. 
NIV

Luke 17:1-4

17 Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. 2It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3 So watch yourselves.

"If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4 If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him."

NIV

 

>>Truth without Trust, without Love, is useless

Baloney.  2+2=4, not 5, That's the useful TRUTH -- regardless of whether the rules of math are embroidered with purple/pink Trust and Love thread or not.

Likewise Natural Laws - like Gravity and the self-evident rules governing the reproductive fitness of species and cultures -- characterized by sexual dimorphism via Natural Selection; have CONSEQUENCES when they are ignored and/or abominated.

People who step off cliffs fall.  Cultures that normalize the perversion of nature die. 

And "woe to that person through whom they come" - regardless whether they come with some feigned and twisted facade of Trust, Love, respect and understanding  pasted on, or not.

 

Matt 10:14-15

14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. 15 I tell you the truth, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

NIV

Rebuke, Repent, Forgive -  What does this mean, in Orlando?

[Mrs. Don-o]

"Do unto others what you would have them do unto you."

Respect and understanding --- and words of truth --- turned me away from disordered affections and misplaced worldly loves. So what I know of the way God's mercy works towards sinners, I know from experience.

As St. Paul said the faithful saints at Corinth...

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[Marie]

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[HLPhat]

But you weren’t given over to a reprobate mind, were you.

[Mrs. Don-o]

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.
See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

2 Timothy 2:24
And the servant of the Lord must not be contentious, but be gentle unto all men, able to teach, and always patient.

We don't have a right, I think, to despair of other people's salvation, or to quit reaching out to them. God only can read their minds and hearts, and by God's grace repentance is possible, yes, even to the last breath.