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  1. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    No, your injection of motive into my posting is again off the mark. Again, you judge another's motives, and we're not to do that. The point is: homosexuality is morally wrong. It doesn't matter a whit if it's wrong in the world's opinion or not. Being "inclusive" and "tolerant" does not...
  2. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    So someone who judges other's heart attitudes usurping God's authority, and this is not the muslim moon god, or some pagan god, but God the Father, is now arguing for those who promote sin. They teach homosexuality in school now. That is morally wrong. Here is what Jesus said about people who...
  3. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    What? Do you know when you're going to die? Do you not know that to believe in Jesus in the Greek demands an ongoing, continuous belief? And Pre-Wrath does not set a date - and according to Jesus in the Olivet Discourse, the Day of the Lord does not happen at the midpoint of the one 'seven'...
  4. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    Of course, you're just as wrong as the liberals you defend. That's the funny thing about liberals, they know so much that just isn't true. My mother taught me that "Your Rights stop where someone else's Rights begin." Now in that regard, I have a Right to be armed. You have a Right to your...
  5. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    Again, because you don't get it. The law cannot trump a Right. The law cannot force a person to act against their Rights. Rights are God-given. Laws are man-made. Furthermore, ye who set herself up as god and judge: name the law that the Christian baker broke; quote me section and line...
  6. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    I do not equate being a hateful jerk to being lukewarm. You are lukewarm. You defend man's law which goes against God's Law and so would have us mix evil with good. On top of that, you call people 'hateful jerks' which is quite beyond your ability to discern another's heart attitude and thus...
  7. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    So you are FOR the heavy hand of an evil federal government to violate the Christian bakers Right to practice their religion. The First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech...
  8. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    Two wrongs don't make a right. My mother taught me that. You may not make someone violate their Right to practice their religion - in order not to "offend" someone else's eggshell concept of their imaginary right to have sex in perverted ways.
  9. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    I see that you are stuck in being against hot-cold thinking. You are lukewarm. What did Jesus say about being lukewarm? And what would you think Jesus would say about your passive-aggressive question which couches an ad homimen attack within it with the very premise that being against sin -...
  10. Marcus O'Reillius

    Anti- Christian Crusade.

    Teaching children to accept what is sinful as an acceptable way of living is morally wrong. And that is what they are being taught. When radical, activist, God-hating, homosexuals target Christians, we can chastise them. Having sex in perverted ways is not a civil right. Those businesses have...
  11. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    Maybe the Easter Bunny is real. Apostasy is not the Rapture. Within 2Th 2:1-4 Paul establishes the apostasy - what you mislabel as the Rapture - coming BEFORE Jesus comes and gathers (the Rapture) us up! When you mislabel apostasy as the rapture you have the Rapture being a precursor for the...
  12. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    Actually, while many think this the case, and it may very well be; there is no way for us to know who or whom Paul is talking about. He gave the Thessalonians that information personally, but exactly who does the restraining and is removed from the midst is not clear. For instance: the Holy...
  13. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    Because the Day of the Lord is a singular Day. The Olivet Discourse is composed with parallel construction. Verses 4-14 provide a broad overview summing up with the "end" of the Church Age in v.14. Jesus then, in parallel to that, provides a second, detailed, parallel account about a time of...
  14. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    Rebellion is not "bias" on the part of the translator, but rather the NIV trying to get the best meaning-for-meaning to the reader in translation. The NASB, which goes for the best word-for-word meaning in its method of translation (there's more than one way to skin a cat and it's an art) has...
  15. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    Don't believe everything you think, but you can believe anything you want: it just doesn't make it true though. Mt 24:29-31 is the Day of the Lord when we look up because our redemption is near. The sun/moon/star event of v.29 - which precedes the Day of the Lord in vv.30-31 - comes...
  16. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    Negative. That utterance for God's Wrath "coming" (not yet there) is from the wicked. At that precise moment: God is not coming for them, but for us. However, in the parallel account to the Seal/Scroll Chronology in Revelation in chapters 13-16 -- before the Harvest on the clouds, 3 Angels...
  17. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    The mourning happens well after the sun is darkened at noon. Remember Joel 2: the sun/moon/star sign precedes the Day of the Lord. They are not completely synonymous. They do happen 1-2.
  18. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    Negative. [1st] Paul uses a reverse order. The Day of the Lord AND our gathering up to Him (the Rapture) do not happen UNTIL: ...the apostasy (rebellion) happens and the anti-Christ is revealed. The proper order in which these event happens is: 1. Apostasy occurs - things like abortion...
  19. Marcus O'Reillius

    2 Thess 2:3 -- apostasia

    This is the same mistake that Timothy LaHaye and Thomas Ice make in their book: Charting the End Times. They rely on early English versions predating even the King James to push a physical departure into the verse. However, while being first usually sets the benchmark for something, the very...
  20. Marcus O'Reillius

    The Wrath of the Lord

    False. Here is the failure of ultra-literalism. It does not say explicitly that the Great Multitude is in Heaven, so keras disallows it, denies it, and then teaches it. However, to follow that teaching, to believe his 'study guide' is to lose all perspective of what John has conveyed to us...