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Oprah Asked This Ex-Megachurch Pastor When Christianity Will Embrace Gay Relationships and his answe
The Blaze ^ | Feb. 17, 2015 | Billy Hallowell

Posted on 02/18/2015 5:26:10 AM PST by Gamecock

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To: metmom

It’s beyond homosexuality. Satan is using it to condition us. The real problem is adultery and fornication and well, sin in general.
Pretending to marry is just a ruse to get us to accept it. Satan wants us to be willing to justify our behavior before God with a clean conscious.
Satan wants us to call God a liar to His face.


21 posted on 02/18/2015 6:13:27 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

Absolutely


22 posted on 02/18/2015 6:23:37 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Gamecock; yldstrk; GraceG; C. Edmund Wright; manc; bray; cripplecreek
the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from 2,000 years ago as their best defense,

WOW!

You know what? I think Isaac Newton is such a quack, that was what? 400 years Ago?

The Wheels of Science Never Stop Turning!

23 posted on 02/18/2015 6:26:29 AM PST by KC_Lion (The Issue is Not The Issue, The Issue is The Revolution.)
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To: Gamecock

For Rob it all began with a string of “conversations”, that led to endless “questions”, with “answers” that proved it wasn’t the Spirit who started up conversations with him.


24 posted on 02/18/2015 6:40:21 AM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Gamecock

And that is why he is an Ex pastor.


25 posted on 02/18/2015 6:44:23 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: KC_Lion; yldstrk; GraceG; C. Edmund Wright; manc; bray; cripplecreek

Low view of scripture will get you every time.


26 posted on 02/18/2015 6:45:13 AM PST by Gamecock (Joel Osteen is a minister of the Gospel like Captain Crunch is a Naval line officer.)
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To: AppyPappy

“Rob Bell just wants to be liked. He’s like the high school geek who wants to hang out with the cool guys.”

Actually, the geek’s done good for himself...in this world’s sense of “good”. Ascending the Pantheon to sup with Oprah? Success! I suspect he’s quite rich, as well, from his former run as megachurch pastor and author.

None of that matters when you are, in the end, going to have to give an account to Him with whom we have to do (who shows no partiality).


27 posted on 02/18/2015 6:49:42 AM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: avenir

He was a failure as a pastor. The ONLY reason he has an audience is because he is saying what people want to hear. That doesn’t last very long.


28 posted on 02/18/2015 6:51:55 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Gamecock

Feelings based faith, a god of his own making. Scripture is our plumb line, Gods word endures forever.


29 posted on 02/18/2015 6:52:24 AM PST by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: Gamecock

Can we expect Bell to come out of the closet? This sounds so gay friendly that it makes me wonder. OTOH I have seen that Bell’s train car derail a while ago.


30 posted on 02/18/2015 6:57:39 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: bray

Satan has a good reason for saving this abomination’s onslaught until last. Humanity has finally come to the point where it thinks it’s smarter and more godlike than its Creator.

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo refused to bow and thus were saved from the furnace. Everyone who bows to or condones this abomination will suffer the consequences, even by refusing to condemn it. It’s my opinion that Ministers who are charged with upholding G-d’s Infallible Word will suffer immeasurably for profaning His Holy Altars with abominable marriages and changing the meanings of infallible wisdom to suit mortal, worldly tastes for evil.


31 posted on 02/18/2015 7:00:13 AM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: Timber Rattler

Sorry, guess again. It’s happening everywhere. All churches are heading down the “world friendly” road in order to stay afloat financially.

I can’t find a church in reasonable driving distance that will condemn homosexuality and I live in a relatively rural area.


32 posted on 02/18/2015 7:03:14 AM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: Timber Rattler

Sorry, guess again. It’s happening everywhere. All churches are heading down the “world friendly” road in order to stay afloat financially.

I can’t find a church in reasonable driving distance that will condemn homosexuality and I live in a relatively rural area.


33 posted on 02/18/2015 7:04:34 AM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: DiogenesLamp

I don’t know if Rob Bell considers himself a Christian. Can he agree with the Apostle’s Creed? Not likely if he disagrees with the written Word of God. No, Bell took a year to live and think as if there is no God. He came up for air and landed a gig with Oprah. He elevates his thoughts above the Truth of God’s word. I agree, the enemy is guiding him now and financial and fame are the temporary reward. His 15 minutes of fame will fade and he will still be Godless. But I will say a prayer for him to repent and return.


34 posted on 02/18/2015 7:06:06 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: KC_Lion

Maybe she should look closer to home like her church or maybe who she supports and ask who is a nut.

Will she say the same about the Koran and Islam, nah didn’t think so.


35 posted on 02/18/2015 7:08:48 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: Gamecock

And the one world church continues to form. Look UP! when the true Church is gone I doubt it will even be missed. Except a few people might be vaguely aware the trouble makers are gone.....


36 posted on 02/18/2015 7:12:04 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Timber Rattler

Just this weekend our pastor talked about drunkenness, homosexuality, and sex outside of marriage. Hint - he didn’t speak favorably about any of them...He also said he wondered what attendance might be next week...he said it would be continued this week...we shall see where else he goes.


37 posted on 02/18/2015 7:18:24 AM PST by LearnsFromMistakes (Yes, I am happy to see you. But that IS a gun in my pocket.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry

“Bell took a year to live and think as if there is no God.”

FYI, that was Ryan Bell, a former Seventh-day Adventist pastor.

But I do believe Rob Bell said he took time off to surf and hangout with all his friends. Cool friends, not mean like all those backwards Christian right wing nutjobs who hassled him about his progressive views on Hell and homosexual offenders!


38 posted on 02/18/2015 7:19:32 AM PST by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: Gamecock

What would be the point of attracting people to a “church” that rejects God’s word?


39 posted on 02/18/2015 7:35:45 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: avenir

OH goodness! My mistake but they sound cut from same cloth. Thank you for the correction. All Bells look alike. ;)


40 posted on 02/18/2015 7:38:29 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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