I'm not so sure our Savior would have spent his time at funerals with signs that say "Thank God for Breast Cancer," "Thank God for IEDs," and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers!" I don't buy that argument for a minute. In fact, with regards to the few funerals he was documented at the folks came back to life. (Lazarus, who was a sinful man just like any one of us.)
I would not do that and doubt anyone reading this message would.
Unfortunately, the reason we don't have laws against this sort of muck is that until now, we've had members of society who are mature enough to handle the freedom. I think we as Christians need to evaluate how our tactics respond to the world's tactics, because to me you cannot really tell the difference sometimes. I mean we say that the gay/lesbian community is the most militant, but I see a lot of evils as being "militant" in nature..)
Unfortuately we don’t have laws against this sort of thing? This is the USA, where we are suppose to have freedom of speech. Here’s a news flash for you. We have that right to protect those that don’t believe the politically correct message. The politically correct don’t need those protections.
One thing that God has laid firmly upon my heart is that God operates with minds and personas, not with laws and morality.
So what God firmly laid on your heart is in conflict with what the Bible says? Maybe it was not God that laid that on your heart. God operates with minds and personas? What kind of doctrine is that? You say not with laws and morality, but the Bible says
1 Jn 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Heb 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
So do I believe what I read in the Bible, or what you say?
We cannot legislate morality and Christianity. You'll lose that battle every single time. That is why Christianity has been soundly on the retreat. Were in not for the God of everything, we'd be another Mount Olympus religion (aka dead).
Christianity has been soundly on the retreat? No! True Christians are not on the retreat. The lukewarm masses may be on the retreat, but not Christians.
From a heterosexual point of view, I find homosexuality revolting. However, you deal with sin not by dealing with the sin itself, but by dealing with the heart of the sinner. How receptive is anyone to a message of you failed, you stink, and you're not worthy of God's grace? For example, the few that are trying to make a similar argument are encountering the same resistance with religious beliefs here. It does not mean you condone something to approach it in the Godly manner.
If you tickle the ears of homosexuals and tell them what they want to hear, there is very little chance they will repent. Is tickling the ears of homosexuals really showing them love? Just tell them God loves them, just as they are? If they don’t repent where are they heading? As far at the resistance the few standing on what the Bible says are getting, that just shows how anyone can call themselves a Christian.
As little as I have in common with the Church in question, I have even littler in common with all but a couple of the people that have posted on this thread. It’s funny how people claiming to be Christians will condemn those Christians they don’t agree with and turn right around and defend those the Bible says is an abomination to God. I would not expect this on a forum that is suppose to be Christian.
Lk13:
24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
25 When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shall answer and say unto you, I know you not whence ye are:
26 Then shall ye begin to say, We have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streets.
27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
Rev3:13
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
