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To: Charles Henrickson

I also how Paul might begin a speech here, if he came to America in today. He might just say, “I Perceive That You use brute force, as well as deceit and bribery, to spread Sodomy as far and wide as possible.” Paul would be immediately deplatformed. Then, he would meet the same fate he ultimately met with the Romans for pretty much the same reasons.


3 posted on 05/12/2023 7:03:02 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: cdcdawg
Paul might begin a speech here, if he came to America in today. He might just say, “I Perceive That You use brute force, as well as deceit and bribery, to spread Sodomy as far and wide as possible.”

I understand the point, but I don't think so. That would be getting too far ahead of himself; in order to bring them to Christ, Paul has to meet the Athenian philosophers where they were, meaning agnostic.

Their attitude towards sex was very unChristian: wives were for babymaking, temple "priestesses" and orgy whores were for lustful sex, and homosexual pederasty was between mentors and their students--"pitching" was OK, "catching" was demeaning. But Paul says nothing about this to the Athenians, because he's preparing them to understand the concept of repentance in general, and the need for Christ's salvation.

Paul decries all forms of sexual immorality, not to the pagans, but to the baptized believers in Rome, Corinth, and Ephesus, because they were "graduating" from believers to disciples and needed to learn holiness (Hebrews 12:14).

America is in a catch-22 position. There is enough knowledge of God, Christ, and holy living that those who actively promote perversion need to be confronted, but dealing with "everyday people" who are vague agnostics requires going back to square one, as Paul did in Athens, rather than exhortation, such as Peter did on Pentecost.

6 posted on 05/12/2023 8:01:49 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: cdcdawg

8 posted on 05/12/2023 8:13:46 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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