Posted on 02/07/2019 1:15:17 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
This judgement, in a sane world, is a dog-bites-man story.
Our insane world has converted this judgement into a man-bites-dog story.
Not only is there no such thing, if by "gay" you mean a practitioner or an advocate of that behavior, but anyone who affirms this behavior who is not "gay" is also not a Christian.
HOORAY!
Christian groups do not allow
Heterosexual
Or
Bisexual
Either
Adultery is not limited to one of these psychological profiles
If they won’t allow homosexuals as leaders then why are they allowing them as members?
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Just speculating but maybe it’s for the same reason that Jesus dined with unrepentent prostitutes and tax-collectors (basically viewed as mafia-extortionists at the time) without making them Apostles.
That makes even less sense. It was a Business group.
1 John addresses this.
It’s a straw man to say Christians insist on sinlessness. John says that’s not possible. It’s a weird church that demands sinlessness.
The difference is one’s response to sin. Does a man love his sin and keep on practicing it? John says that man walks in the darkness.
Does a man hate his sin and seek, by God’s grace, to fight it and put it off, as it says in Ephesians 4? John says that man walks in the light.
Believe it or not, this very ruling was made by an Obama appointee.
Is there no such thing as a gay Christian?
The Point.
1 Cor. 6:9-10, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
The Word is clear. Unrepentant (practicing) homosexuals who die in their sin, GO TO HELL. They can go to church, they can call themselves a Christian...but if they are practicing homosexuals when they die—they will spend eternity in Hell.
This passage lists a number of sins that offer the same consequences for unrepentance. An unrepentant thief goes straight to hell as well.
BUT, no other sin listed in that passage has a number of followers out to forcibly legalize their sin-calling sin a civil right.
When Jesus stopped the stoning of the adulteress, He told her to. “Go and sin no more.” Repentance doesn’t mean perfection, or a lack of struggle...The sin must stop! If a gay or lesbian isn’t even attempting to stop the sin-They will burn: end of story.
Too funny - and pathetic - does being gay top rape and murder as sins....can a rapist/murder become saved in Christ? Are you totally free of a sinful nature or is it just that your personal sins, that Jesus gladly took responsibility for are just cleaner sins?
That makes even less sense. It was a Business group.
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In the title it said “Christian Group”. That lead me to believe that - in some sense - Christian ethics prevail in the laws/by-laws of the club. It’s the same rationale that a Christian who owns a bed-and-breakfast might not want to host a lesbian wedding reception. It may be a business, but Christian ethics govern it’s business model.
A. It is not gay, or homosexual; it is homoerotic.
B. It is, by absolute, inarguable Biblical declaration, sin.
C. If such a one were indeed a Christian, then he would be one living in knowing sin, and in need of repentance.
D. An impenitent Christian is certainly ineligible for any position of authority in a Christian organization.
I’m thinking there are a whole lot of church attending, believing gays who could be called Christian.
Ok, lets understand that is you thinking, relying on your own understanding.
Now, what does GOD say on the matter?
“Particularly when free speech is involved, the uneven application of any policy risks the most exacting standard of judicial scrutiny, which the defendants have failed to withstand,” she said.
I know how I am going to get out of driving the church bus now.
ALL have sinned and fallen short
I think that falls under “God is Sovereign but even He can’t Save some people”.
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