Posted on 11/03/2014 11:14:00 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
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Just what is it you don’t believe? That a 13-year-old boy could be virginal, and experience an unbidden sexual attraction?
He did. St. John the Baptist was a martyr for true marriage, just like St. Thomas More. But did preach in a way that Herod listened: Scripture says Herod liked to hear him preach. He must have spent some time trying to win him, as contrasted with simply repulsing him.
The individual congregation, reporting to Christ. That’s who defines it. There is no higher earthly authority or Catechism, etc.
The people who love organizing everything keep trying to pretend otherwise, but that the fact.
With respect, ma'am, that's not an "orientation". It's a temptation. Our sexuality is ordered, or oriented toward the other: men to women, women to men. I think you know this. Homosexual attractions are a disorientation, a perversion, a temptation to do what is inherently and irretrievably wrong. To simply call it another "orientation", as though it were no different morally from the orientation of men to women and women to men flies in the face of Sacred Scripture and Natural Law.
Not long ago I said churches would start marrying gays. And it won’t be long.
LOL!!!!
So "Baptist" means whatever each congregation says it means, and none may gainsay the other. You've described a bunch of Humpty-Dumpty's all shouting over each other.
Baptist ping
Unbidden? So he is the victim of his own thoughts?
Sin always starts in the mind. The “orientation” label is used to excuse it at that level. I think better to use the term lust when dealing with sexual thoughts. Just because someone desires to not have impure thoughts in theory, does not mean that he is guilt-free when he has them.
When christians start parsing words to make sinners feel better they do the gospel a disservice. Repentance requires that you hate your sin, even at the thought level.
Jesus loved sinners.
And He told them to go and sin no more.
There is almost no sin beyond His power to forgive, but salvation is not fire insurance. You can’t continue in it.
Amen and Amen!!!
A new ping list, perhaps?
Perhaps not challenging but disparaging.
It means that, contrary to recent emphatic blanket assertions made by multiple FRoman Catholics on behalf of all Catholics everywhere, there are Catholics who do indeed think about / concern themselves with Protestant beliefs and practices, and this thread is but one example of that.
That’s OK. Wow. I guess this stuff goes on at Union Square here in NYC but I miss it. A lot of hate in SF!
Many Southern Baptist Churches are reeking with “lukewarm theology” They better figure out which side of the fence they are on. No fence sitters in God’s Book! Sunday School classes gloss over the topic and as a result kids are not learning the Truth and are only getting what is being taught in the public schools (and we know what that is. . .just look at the state sex ed programs)and many parents who send their children aren’t bothering either. These are sad times we live in.
By the way did you know there is documentation that the microwave and GMO foods are turning boys into girls? Just sayin’
I used to follow ‘zomblog’ regularly; haven’t actually looked at it for a long time now. I guess the perversity and organized hate just got old. Those people are truly pathetic. They need our prayers ...
LOL!!!
If it works for others......
I don't know about you, but if I ever came across someone trying to put boys and girls into a microwave, I'd suggest that they try Hot Pockets instead.
I agree. It looks like it hasn’t been much updated since 2013. I’m sure the person who runs the site just overdosed on “disgusting.” But thanks; I’ll look it over more later.
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