Posted on 07/04/2016 9:29:26 AM PDT by Menehune56
I’ve seen commercials for an online dating site specifically for Black singles looking to meet other Black singles (I don’t remember the name.) I don’t really care about that. However, will this site now be required to offer their services for Whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc.?
I’ve seen commercials for an online dating site specifically for Black singles looking to meet other Black singles (I don’t remember the name.) I don’t really care about that. However, will this site now be required to offer their services for Whites, Hispanics, Asians, etc.?
The main page should reference the Bible verses that state that homosexuality is a sin. I wonder if the judge would force them to take it down.
“I think one can be both gay and christian.”
Incorrect, sir.
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,. . .”
1st Corinthians 6:9
“If? Homosexuality is acceptable in the UMC, ELCA, PC(USA), ECUS and many more. “
“Mainstream” (lost, liberal denoms hemorraghing membership) have indeed embraced it. Bible believing (growing) church have not. Nor have Roman Catholics, to their credit.
These sick demented creeps have a need to destroy everything good about America. Just like the lead packer, Obama.
Well. You’re a man I guess. I’m a woman, and meeting a
strange man at some juice bar is still not appealing to
me. - I’ve escaped by the skin of my teeth back in the days
when I was still just a naïve country kid trusting of all
people. - The Lord took care of me back then; but I guess
He gets tired of people behaving like Goobers. - I laugh
when I remember back in my 20’s when my dentist had me
wrapping small rubber bands around my front teeth in order
to straighten them. - One day, I ran out of the bands and
wrapped blood red sewing thread around my front teeth
instead. - One morning over in the N. Carolina woods, I
was still in my red quilted housecoat & I had wrapped my
teeth in that thread. - Two men came running up & knocked
on my door. I was naïve and answered the door. - The men
were breathless from running and asked if I’d seen their
dog. I smiled (forgetting the blood red thread). They both
backed up real fast & beat it real fast. - I guess they
thought I was some diseased girl hiding a gun beneath her
housecoat. (Kissing me at that point suddenly did not
appeal to them.) The possibility that this crazy diseased
broad *might just shoot them occurred to them. :o)
A potential source if confusion here is the equivocation in the word “homosexual”.
True, one cannot be an active, unrepentant homosexual and be a Christian in good faith. No more than one could be an active, unrepentant slanderer, drunkard, glutton, tax cheat, or arrogant son of a....
But EVERY Christian is a sinner, including all of the above sins and then some, in the sense that each one of have inward tendencies we need to be fighting (like pride, anger, lust, envy, gluttony, avarice and sloth) and the minute we’re not fighting them, we’re falling into them.
So. Sinner? Join the club. Get a new heart. Trust in our our holy, beloved Savior. Be free of sin. It’s such a relief. And be happy!
Different forums have different approaches. Some might start out as pen pals.
A salvation that is eternal will inevitably end in a complete victory. That means one can’t adamantly stand on sin; but if one is merely weak and stumbles but longs for sufficient strength, God does not hold that as an insuperable fault.
There’s a common tendency in Christendom to lump everybody who has habitually participated in such acts in the same boat. But this slights the miracle of God’s salvational power.
A long ordeal does not mean a hopeless case either. Sometimes long, drawn out trials are the prelude to a most uncommon blessing.
And one thing I have discovered is, that when I thought I wasn’t sinning... I often was ignorant.
When God showed me a better way to live, then I realize that yes, I was sinning. But that He forgave me for my sin, because it was not adamantly willful, but born of weakness and misunderstanding.
God will grant power to anyone who will, in the end, be willing to use the power to walk away from sin. Which in technical terms takes a lifetime to learn. That’s why we are told that it is appointed once for man to die, and then comes the judgment. We wouldn’t be ready for it before then. Patience is a virtue.
Keep the passage going... see yourself in any of that? Especially given the more stringent criteria that Jesus preached?
In this we have a paradox. We can sin temporarily once saved, but will not sin permanently, any more than a person who is crucified will live indefinitely on that lethal cross. The inexorability of God’s plan is the controlling factor here.
Now, repeat after me — Hillary wouldn’t be any worse than Donald. Now drink the Kool-Aid.
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“Keep the passage going... see yourself in any of that? Especially given the more stringent criteria that Jesus preached?”
Yes, I do. What is the difference?
I don’t say it’s ok. I fight it. I don’t wallow in it. I don’t promote it as blessed of God.
that is the difference.
“True, one cannot be an active, unrepentant homosexual and be a Christian in good faith. No more than one could be an active, unrepentant slanderer, drunkard, glutton, tax cheat, or arrogant son of a....”
Exactly. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
There may be some Christians who are tempted to sin in a homosexual fashion. Myself I am tempted in the heterosexual fashion. Fornication and adultery are very, very popular heterosexual sins. So is porn use.
But I don’t go fornicate, adulterize, use my porn and say, hey God loves me like this. ‘Cause he doesn’t. I will not indulge my inclinations to those sins nor will I refuse to call them sins.
Nor will I ever pretend one can live in sin and be a Christian at the same time.
Were that true, what need would we have of a Savior?
Anyway, obviously, any “gays” attempting to use “Christian Mingle” are looking to indulge their homosexuality, not fight it.
I would have shut the business down. How can a Christian site be forced to participate in sin? In America? Our courts are out of control.
It is possible in moments of confusion to get everything quite upside down.
The thing is, in a salvation situation, this never lasts. And that is by the power of God, not the power of us.
Not to say that it is impossible that God could use it as a guide into a situation where one or both parties would learn a better way to live — because the “gay” was eventually overshadowed by the “Christian.”
I wouldn’t choose to be setting up situations like that on purpose, but we often slight the wisdom of God.
I’d be backing out of it too.
It sounds like a trying time for certain lay ministries. They may need to obtain explicit church supervision in order to skirt, at least for now, the increasing Christian-hostile nature of the law.
The good Lord wants us to beseech help, but doesn’t want us storming in earthly impatience.
We’ve actually enjoyed a holiday from the persecution of haters. Though maybe we have walked into the persecution of a too-easy world, that is willing in fair weather to say it is a friend of Christ but in foul weather it is not. The respite that is had through “Christianization” of the world is often fragile.
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