Satanic Temple head: ‘More than 50% of our membership is LGBTQ’

redleghunter said:

The Gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. The Gospel transforms lives.

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So why do you believe it is is our obligation to point out the perceived sins of others and make sure they are appropriately rebuked and then cast out if they don't immediately repent to our personal liking? Is God somehow deficient in that area and needs us to make sure he's doing the job in the way we believe to be appropriate?

I for one have no concern for the conservative and evangelical right anti-spiritual judgmentalism, none.

IMO, they have lost the message of Jesus and forgiveness and will leave them to the mercies of Christ.

These people would be best served leaning on the Lord and working out their relationship with Him.

It seems that I don''t think evangelicals' forgiveness is necessary.

We all have plenty in our own lives than to be worried about correcting others.

Lead by your example, brother.

Read it again, please. It is to the members of the flock not the outsiders.

5 It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife.

2 And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you.

3 For I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already as though I were present judged him that hath so wrought this thing, 4 in the name of our Lord Jesus, ye being gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 to deliver such a one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

7 Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, [even] Christ: 8 wherefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators; 10 not at all [meaning] with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous and extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world: 11 but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

I did not ask you what I think.

The judgmentalism in this thread is outside of our individual remits, imo.

Paul was correcting the Corinthian flock.

We have every right to use the Spirit, the scriptures, and our common sense to make decisions such as who to vote for.

But to condemn or to judge is not our remit.

Brightmoon said:

No true Scotsman arguments because people don’t want to admit The Klan and other racist segregationists have always been bible thumping Christians in the USA . They used to refer to that verse about the children of Ham being drawers of water and hewers of wood to justify denying Blacks in the South a decent education or the right to vote My southern relatives spent a lot of time fighting for their civil rights against them

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JohnAshton said:

That is a statement no based in fact or logic Please do some reading on the subject. KKK is real.

The No Scotsman Logical Fallacy is out in force because it is a fact that the KKK has been allied with Christianity from the beginning.

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You guys need to learn how to designate logical fallacies accurately before repeating the name of one every time you see something remotely resembling its form.

No true Scotsman fallacy only applies when a person uses a subjective definition to supplant an objective one to favour a conclusion. For example, "No true Scotsman" is fallacious if you deny a man is a Scotsman because he drinks a brand of alcohol not partisan to Scotsman in general. However, saying a man who is not a Scotsman is no true Scotsman is not a fallacy but a matter of superficially obvious fact.

"Christian" has an ontological status defined by the Scriptures that can not be violated without exposing that the person is, in fact, no true Christian. For a few examples, no true Christian can deny Jesus came in the flesh (1 John 4:1-3); no true Christian can have had true faith and then lost it (1 John 2:19); no true Christian can actively hate brothers in Christ (1 John 3:14-15); no true Christian can make a practice of sin (1 John 3:5-10).

So to sustain that the KKK is saturated with Christians you would have to be willingly ignorant and persist in using a definition of Christian that the Bible does not provide. Therefore "Christian" by your use would be just an arrangement of letters identical to one contained in an English translation of a Bible, to designate a religious group that associates itself, inaccurately, with the group described by the word meaning something entirely different in a Biblical context.