Posted on 08/14/2016 12:03:06 PM PDT by doug from upland
FR has more than its share of God haters.
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>> “His good Christian values include a bastard child with an unmarried woman.” <<
Read your Bible!
Biblical marriage means taking the woman into your house.
It has no dealings with marriage licenses, nor government records.
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I don't know, and this article does nothing to inform us.
I’ll take the non-BLM Simone, please.
And you're so pure? Preachy self-righteous prigs give Christianity a bad name.
Didn’t read the article, then?
No longer accurate as she now has a bronze from one of the team fencing events. Just hate when libs rub our face in any fact that isn’t accurate to ten decimal places where they can spout any manure as gospel and nobody takes them to task for it. I know that graphic was true when it was created.
“Carnal Christians” give Christians a bad name.
I understand that hyper Dispys throw out the Old Testament, but I don’t see how they get around Acts 3:19-20, and Ephesians 2:8-10. Or Acts 2:38, or Acts 3:19, or Luke 13:3....
To follow Christ demands that you repent and humble yourself, trying day by day to improve; but always being grateful that our Mighty God forgives us our sins, because we cannot please Him by our imperfect actions. "All our righteous acts are like filthy rags" to God, whose perfection is greater than humans can imagine (Isaiah 64:6).
Neither judging others, whose journey is different than yours, nor bragging about your great Bible knowledge, will earn you salvation. "Rain falls on the just and the unjust" (Matthew 5:45). "God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34).
Our Lord is looking for a contrite heart, not a boaster of human excellence in His eyes, because "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).
2 “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.Matthew 6
1 “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
With regard to Michael Phelps, he and his fiancee do intend to have a formal marriage ceremony after the Olympics, and knowing he could not spend time with her planning a wedding during the long months of training and competition, he nevertheless took her into his family. You see her standing there between his mother and her mother in many photos, hugging his mom when he won. Perhaps they had the baby baptized; you don't know. For all we know, they may have had a small marriage ceremony. Or, they may have felt it wise to delay because he was in the middle of competition and they want to be sure of how they will relate to each other as spouses and parents before setting up a household with a tiny infant—again, we don't know, and it's none of our business.
But one thing I do know for certain is that God loves that baby regardless of his parents. And we are called to be encouragers of new Christians, not to condemn them and tell them they're not good enough.
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