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Ohio “Pastor” Does TV Commercial Twisting Scripture to Support Pro-Abortion Constitutional Amendment
Disntr ^ | October 8, 2023 | staff

Posted on 10/11/2023 11:22:00 PM PDT by Morgana

In the land of make-believe—otherwise known as Columbus, Ohio—a man by the name of Tim Ahrens plays dress-up as a pastor. The setting? The First Congregational Church, a stage in the theatrical United Church of Christ, a denomination better known for its creative interpretations of the Bible than any semblance of orthodoxy. Ahrens has now brought his act to a new low by starring as the lead in a pro-abortion commercial. Donning his pastoral costume, he mutters about the sanctity of family decisions, as if abortion were akin to choosing between meatloaf and spaghetti for dinner.

It’s hard to fathom the notion that these leftists actually believed that putting this clown in front of them on a television screen, dressing him up in priestly garb, and panning through images of empty pews in a dead church while reading out loud arguably the most twisted verse in the entire Bible, were actually going to make true believers think that abortion is somehow acceptable to God. But it seems that’s what they’ve done.

“Do not judge and you will not be judged,” he begins. The wisdom of cherry-picked Scripture! He’s transformed that biblical nugget into a get-out-of-morality-free card. Then comes the punchline: “Abortion is a private family decision.” That’s right, folks—taking an innocent life is now a “family affair,” a casual topic for Sunday brunch.

Ahrens goes on to lament government involvement, suggesting that families should enjoy the “freedom” to end lives without pesky interference. It’s as if he equates freedom with a free-for-all, where anything goes and morality is an optional side dish.

To cap it off, Ahrens has the temerity to urge a “yes” vote on enshrining the right to mass murder children into the state’s Constitution. He’s not merely expressing a political opinion—he’s unmasking a spiritual abyss, a gaping hole where the authoritative Word of God should firmly reside.

Tim Ahrens, the fake pastor, is a shepherd of secularism, and most definitely not a guardian of the Gospel. His advocacy for death doesn’t just bend Scripture—it shreds it, offering in its place a script for moral anarchy. Let’s not be deceived—Ahrens is not a maverick theologian but a performer, amusing perhaps, but in the end, just another actor in the tragicomedy that sidelines God’s eternal truth for the cheap applause of worldly approval. But we all know what those who hate God love the most. If not, read Proverbs 8:36.

Watch the commercial: VIDEO ON LINK


TOPICS: Moral Issues; Other Christian; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: abortion; fakechurch; fakepastor; ohio; prolife

1 posted on 10/11/2023 11:22:00 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

No true Christian can support killing babies, period.


2 posted on 10/11/2023 11:24:46 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

By that reckoning, it can also be a “private family decision” to murder an unruly toddler, kid or teenager if the parents “so choose.”


3 posted on 10/11/2023 11:45:44 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: No name given
“Do not judge and you will not be judged,” he begins. The wisdom of cherry-picked Scripture! He’s transformed that biblical nugget into a get-out-of-morality-free card. Then comes the punchline: “Abortion is a private family decision.” That’s right, folks—taking an innocent life is now a “family affair,” a casual topic for Sunday brunch.

God already established that taking an innocent human life is murder. My pointing that out so someone is not *judging* them.

If they don't like what God's word tells us, they need to take it up with HIM.

4 posted on 10/11/2023 11:48:28 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Or a person who has an undesirable social status or skin color.


5 posted on 10/11/2023 11:49:18 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

For that matter, ANYTHING can be justified by twisting Scripture.

If you can justify murdering babies, nothing else is off the table.


6 posted on 10/11/2023 11:49:54 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: Morgana

That’s the same mental gymnastics I’ve seen elsewhere when someone told me the verse “if a man doesn’t work he doesn’t eat” means it’s okay to have sex with someone they weren’t married to. (2 Thess 3:10)
I swear it’s the days of 2 Thess 2:9-12.
“9The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, 10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. 11For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, 12in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.”


7 posted on 10/11/2023 11:51:53 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: metmom

YOUR TAGLINE, C9ME LORD!


8 posted on 10/12/2023 12:25:48 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: Darksheare

Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama certainly paved the way for the coming Antichrist

The open displays of the godless reprobates, calling the slaughter of the innocent unborn a work of “god”, 5,000. “genders”, Mark of the Beast technology, Globalism, crippling the world’s food supply, totalitarian COVID-19(84) mandates worldwide.......

The world 🌎🌍 is being prepared for the Tribulation, the Antichrist and the False Prophet.

(lurkers please click on my screen name to see my FR homepage for more information)


9 posted on 10/12/2023 1:57:50 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Yeah.
Pretty much an understatement.
But, we were warned in Matthew 24:24 as well.
And here we are.
Wish none of us had to be seeing it happen.


10 posted on 10/12/2023 2:32:24 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: metmom

The Bible says that “there is no God”!
Sadly , for the cheering atheists, or people who believe God’s word can be twisted, the completed phrase is “The fool has said in his heart, there is no God”.
If Ahrens is that fool...the millstone treatment is in his future.


11 posted on 10/12/2023 4:09:29 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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To: No name given

Thus no true Christian can ever vote for a democrat


12 posted on 10/12/2023 5:12:00 AM PDT by cyclotic (It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
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To: Morgana
2 Timothy 3

“Difficult Times Will Come”

1 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.

2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,

4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.

9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also. 10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!

12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them,

15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.

13 posted on 10/12/2023 6:22:26 AM PDT by MAAG (The LORD does not choose sides, HE is a side.)
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To: SaveFerris

Picture this: As the fighting continues, Russia and China join the war against Israel and the US. Everything is chaos. Russia has destroyed the food supply chain in Europe and the US. Obama stands up in the ruins of the Temple and announces the only solution to the mayhem is one world government under him because he is The Messiah, the second coming.
Just weeks away.


14 posted on 10/12/2023 11:08:16 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: SaveFerris

Picture this: As the fighting continues, Russia and China join the war against Israel and the US. Everything is chaos. Russia has destroyed the food supply chain in Europe and the US. Obama stands up in the ruins of the Temple and announces the only solution to the mayhem is one world government under him because he is The Messiah, the second coming.
Just weeks away.


15 posted on 10/12/2023 11:08:35 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Wiser now
I fully expected him to go for United Nations Secretary General - ESPECIALLY when they asked for this around the same time frame.

[Lakhdar Brahimi and Mary Robinson call on the successful candidate for UN Secretary-General to serve one seven year term (!) - 13 July 2016 ]

"Putting the right figure at the helm is the first, indispensable step to move effectively towards achieving the other, equally necessary, reforms in the area of
Peace and Security

that can ensure the UN’s continued relevance and effectiveness well into the 21st century."

13 July 2016

https://www.theelders.org/news/wanted-strong-un-leader-and-peace-maker

1 Thessalonians 5:3

Revised Standard Version

3 When people say,

“There is PEACE AND SECURITY,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Thessalonians%205%3A3&version=RSV
16 posted on 10/15/2023 2:40:38 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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