Posted on 02/24/2014 5:51:18 AM PST by xzins
Oh, boo hoo.
>> Jesus would bake them a cake and then say, “Go and sin no more.” <<
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You don’t know him!
He never contributed to anyone’s defilement in any way.
Those that loved their defilement, he rebuked sternly. (Pharisees, scribes)
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Sure he would, right after he finished making all those Ashera Poles.
Yeshua was never a carpenter.
He was referred to once as a son of the carpenter, but for his entire life he was in study for the task of Cohen Gadol, and from that he never strayed.
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>>You don’t know him!
>>He never contributed to anyone’s defilement in any way.
Would he bake a cake for a couple of adulterers who had an affair leading to the breakup of one or both of their previous marriages?
Would he bake a cake for two fornicators who had lived together prior to “making it legal”?
>> This particular example is another way of asking “what would Jesus do?” <<
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We never needed to ask that question if we read the gospels.
He showed what to when encountering wanton sin: He fashioned a whip and thrashed the animal sellers and money changers off the temple porch single-handed.
Whenever he encountered sin he rebuked it.
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NO, and NO!
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>> “Sure he would, right after he finished making all those Ashera Poles.” <<
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By Jove, I think he’s got it!
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“The basic premise here is a false one. Had the baker simply been asked to bake a cake, I doubt they would have refused.
However, they were asked to make a wedding cake. In Christianity, marriage is a sacrament. Thus, the were asked to help make a mockery of a sacrament, thus committing sacrilege. And Jesus would not take part in sacrilege.”
Except for your first sentence, your comment is the article in a nutshell.
There seems to be some confusion among some here, who believe that Jesus Christ loves everyone... except sinners. They don’t seem to realize that Jesus knows we are all sinners, and He loves us anyway. He does not want us to sin. He would never participate in our sin. He would not deny us basic goods and services for our being sinners. Mankind would have never grown beyond the first two specimens if that had been God’s policy.
The confusion here seems to be all your own.
Read your Bible for once.
Yeshua didn’t coddle anyone in any way.
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Which part of the Bible states that God only loves those who have never sinned? Where does it state that sinners should not be allowed to buy food?
Then He would share the cake, sitting at a table with said gay person, and He would explain His Father's law and His Father's infinite mercy. He would preach in parables, and try to show the sinner the error of his or her ways.
Excellent article...
Just like a Jewish Holocaust Survivor would bake a Cake for a Neo Nazi.
It’s not a question of who he loved.
It is exactly because of that love that he could not bake them a cake that endorsed their defilement.
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But he spoke in parables to hide his truth from entrenched sinners, not to reveal it.
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>>NO, and NO!
OK. Then, the cake baker shouldn’t either if he’s going to cite “religious convictions” as a reason to not bake a cake for gay customers.
Read the article. It makes a distinction. Read my posts. I agree with that distinction.
The problem is, a same-sex wedding is not a "holy relationship" that is "ordained by God." This author seems to think that you can take any two persons, declare them "married," and that somehow sanctifies the relationship. He's putting the cart before the horse. The marriage itself is only legitimate if the couple being married are a legitimately marriageable couple.
Speaking only for myself, if I were a Christian wedding photographer, I would probably have no problem welcoming moneybusiness from gay couples. Only thing is, all my business stationery, promotional materials, Web site, card board frames, etc. would be full of photos of happy, beautiful heterosexual couples, and monogrammed with Bible verses like Genesis 2:24. And if I were a baker, of course I'd be compelled to charge the gay couple extra, since I had to break open two sets of the little bride-and-groom cake toppers.
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