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Homosexuality is mentioned in NT <staff edit>. 'For they will not partake in the kingdom of God...'
Leave your political correctness at the doorway and read the Bible <staff edit>. You can not serve two masters. Women are not men...
Can you find me the word "abomination" used in reference to homosexuality in the NT? That was the point....
I grew up in a Baptist Church till I was about 18, trust me, we were DRILLED on the bible.
Abused women are free to leave/divorce their husbands. The point of the matter is that it is a sin to remarry.There are many reasons for divorce, abuse being one of them. Any god who would damn a woman for leaving an abuse husband, is not someone I would want to worship anyways. Nor would such a god be omnipotent.
Abused women are free to leave/divorce their husbands. The point of the matter is that it is a sin to remarry.
There are many reasons for divorce, abuse being one of them. Any god who would damn a woman for leaving an abusive husband, is not someone I would want to worship anyways. Nor would such a god be omnipotent.
Abused women are free to leave/divorce their husbands. The point of the matter is that it is a sin to remarry.
Jesus said we must give an account of what we did and why.
Let Him be the Judge that He is.
Keep your Church free and clear of celebrating sin and see how well you all do on Judgment Day. I applaud your conservative values and Gospel truth. But, one word of caution, don't judge a repentant person.
Until of course their 491st divorce.
Jesus said we must give an account of what we did and why.
Let Him be the Judge that He is.
Keep your Church free and clear of celebrating sin and see how well you all do on Judgment Day.
I applaud your conservative values and Gospel truth. But, one word of caution, don't judge a repentant person.
Until of course their 491st divorce.
I don't see it mattering. If is one, two, or 491 divorces that passage of the Bible stands as it is. Excluding the mentioned justifications for divorce, all remarriages are sinful.
At least that is how I understand the passage.
+1And such a god, and I believe there are many, is not worthy of worship or devotion in any way, shape, or form.
Alright, PC_F. I see that you chose not to respond to my post re repentence but continuing to 'live in sin' in the case of divorcees/remarrieds. So, I ask you up front even though this thread is not about homosexuality.
How would a repentent homosexual who continues to cohabit with his/her partner be any different to a heterosexual doing the very same thing?
Why is it that THIS topic is not an issue but homosexual relationships IS an issue?
I'm waiting with bated breath.
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Every thread with you guys is about homosexuality. You do realize who you're debating don't you? Don't even try to pull wool here pal.
Polycarp_fan said:Are they encouraging others to sin? Jesus makes this threateningly clear that a person is going to sin, BUT they had better not set up others to sin. Although I very much applaud your conservative stance on this issue, and encourage it never violated . . . we just don't see adulterers in the Christian world promoting it to others. Every divorced person and adulterous person, I have ever met in the Church goes out of there way to tell others how wrong it is BECAUSE of reality of scripture. That is to say, the truth.
Polycarp_fan said:Who says it's not an issue? It is yet one more example of immorality put into law by our culture of licentiousness. What you are trying to do is extremely childish and yet very wrong. You are encouraging people to sin by claiming the school-yard logic of two wrongs making a right. If a person says that that have repented of homosexuality, then that must be believed until, or unless, you have actual proof that this person is bearing fruit of lies. Then there is a way for Christians to handle that too. (The pagan and tax collector deal.)
Bated is the word.
Is there an adultery pride parade? Even if we use Mardi Gras, a pagan festival, we see that it leads up to repentance doesn't it?
We see one adulterer at the feet of Christ awaiting her death BY a completely righteous judgment. Jesus went against "the law" His own law, and did not condemn this one adulterer. We don't even see her repenting. We also have the Samaritan woman at the well, who was an immoral tramp shacking up with one guy after another.
Or, maybe these woman were taking care of their children as best they could with the situations they had to deal with??????
Only sinners are in need of Jesus. Perfect people need not apply. You know any?
And in reading the histories of Jesus's grandmom's I wouldn't be so hasty to be rude or mean to shadey women. Jesus has a mean side to Him that is very not nice.
Is there "marriage" presented any other way ANYWHERE in scripture that is same-gendered? In scripture, we see divorce handled, adultery handled, whorish behaviors handled, and yet we still see homosexuality handled and disapproved of, from beginning to end.
Why is this?
And KCKID, one of the Apostles asked Jesus how many times we are to forgive someone. 490 times right? Or was Jesus using some idiomatic phrase of His culture to mean forever or every time? That seems in context to scriptural truth.
If you know of any people engaging in same-gender sex acts, or that encouraging the behaviors, that are Christian, and that repent of it, you let them know they are forgiven. Oh, and adultery and divorce too.
Per Jesus.
And then His disciples, and then the rest of us.
Etc., etc., etc., et al.
Gaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!! Thread, derailed again.
What of the scriptural basis for adulterers being allowed continue worship in churches??? Is it too much to ask?
If one remains married to a second or subsequent spouse whislt the firt is alive one commits adultery.
Surely to remain married to a second spouse and remain in fellowship with other believers is not truly repenting?
If, not, what is the biblical basis for continuing to sin willfully as opposed to the sin followed by truly repent cycle.
Seriously anyone got a scriptural angle on this one?
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