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Wrong. I know several Christians who are homosexual.
No. Christians do not walk in darkness.Wrong. I know several Christians who are homosexual.
Congratulations on your appointment! I had not heard you had been elevated to sit at the right hand of God and judge the quick and the dead.No. Christians do not walk in darkness.
There is a vast difference between judging and relaying the truth, my friend:Congratulations on your appointment! I had not heard you had been elevated to sit at the right hand of God and judge the quick and the dead.
No. Christians do not walk in darkness.
When one becomes a Christian, they are a new creature in Christ. The old has gone and the new has come.
Christ paid a heavy penalty for our sins and it would be mockery of Him to then refer to oneself by their former sin.
When we think too lightly of sin, we think too lightly of the Saviour - Spurgeon
Let Christ make the difficulty better. Become a Christian and follow Jesus if that is the problem. You would both benefit.We lost a brother from our family due to this kind of 'righteous hatred'. Not because any of us are gay, not even because some of us are non-believers. No, he cut himself off from the rest of the family because, in his words, we are all "unrepentant sinners", in that we don't walk the same path that he does.
You probably wouldn't appreciate our sadness over such a situation...after all, you'd be right behind him in his judgement, yes...?
Let Christ make the difficulty better. Become a Christian and follow Jesus if that is the problem. You would both benefit.
Christ taught that homosexuality is a sin, my friend.
Actually he hasn't say anything about it, literally, although this is not the section to discuss the moral aspect of it.Let Christ make the difficulty better. Become a Christian and follow Jesus if that is the problem. You would both benefit.
Christ taught that homosexuality is a sin, my friend.
What exactly is "hatred and persecution"?Bow down to hatred and persecution...?
No thank you...
"some of us are non-believers". You questioned your Christianity, my friend.By the way, looking at some of your earlier comments, you should be made aware that it is against the rules here to call into question another person's Christianity....
Ok, Maajid Nawaz seems questionable but ok, so what?The SPLC classed Maajid Nawaz, a Islamic reformer and believing Muslim, as an anti Muslim extremist.
I wouldn't call it hatred or persecution in most cases but there is a difference in how some Christians react to or treat people that don't fit into the neat little boxes some of them like to put people into vs the few that do. For example when one Christian disagrees with another about some relatively unimportant aspect of the faith, like whether Jesus is against same sex attraction or just the act of being with the same sex.What exactly is "hatred and persecution"?
One can believe in the redemption of Christ and not be saved. You need to have experienced the redemption of Christ and be saved, and then you long to follow what He taught and obey Him. That is when we want to help others to share that same joy by evangelizing. Part of evangelizing is telling people what Christ taught, and He taught that homosexuality is a sin.I wouldn't call it hatred or persecution in most cases but there is a difference in how some Christians react to or treat people that don't fit into the neat little boxes some of them like to put people into vs the few that do. For example when one Christian disagrees with another about some relatively unimportant aspect of the faith, like whether Jesus is against same sex attraction or just the act of being with the same sex.
It's a difference that IMO from the outside, doesn't change whether someone actually believes in redemption in Christ or not, which is what I would consider a Christian.
I wouldn't call it hatred or persecution in most cases but there is a difference in how some Christians react to or treat people that don't fit into the neat little boxes some of them like to put people into vs the few that do. For example when one Christian disagrees with another about some relatively unimportant aspect of the faith, like whether Jesus is against same sex attraction or just the act of being with the same sex.
It's a difference that IMO from the outside, doesn't change whether someone actually believes in redemption in Christ or not, which is what I would consider a Christian.
I was replying to your asking for the Islamic reforms the SPLC had put on their lists.Ok, Maajid Nawaz seems questionable but ok, so what?
Why would they love unrepentant sinners? Why would anyone love someone who loves a sin that Jesus died on the cross for? And why do you assume that they want America to be a secular country? Many Christians do not desire that.
It's none of my business but what kind of a religion did your brother get into. Did he join a cult, convert to Catholicism, shave his head and become a Hare Krishna or what? Most Christians I know have a burden for their family coming to faith in Christ.We lost a brother from our family due to this kind of 'righteous hatred'. Not because any of us are gay, not even because some of us are non-believers. No, he cut himself off from the rest of the family because, in his words, we are all "unrepentant sinners", in that we don't walk the same path that he does.
You probably wouldn't appreciate our sadness over such a situation...after all, you'd be right behind him in his judgement, yes...?
It's none of my business but what kind of a religion did your brother get into. Did he join a cult, convert to Catholicism, shave his head and become a Hare Krishna or what? Most Christians I know have a burden for their family coming to faith in Christ.
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