So he would be sending children to Hell?
By the same logic, since adults are most definitely not innocent of sin, it is acceptable to murder them.
It seems that he would be willingly condemning them to hell. Those with original sin must be baptized and accept Christ as the Savior in order to receive Grace. It appears that not all Christians think such is the case. “Baby Killer” denominations do exist, sadly.
Pathetic.
Several years ago I listened to Dr. James Kennedy on the radio give a half-hour, very logical and thorough BIBLICAL analysis of why the babies who are aborted go to Heaven. Dr. Kennedy is correct.
However, the ones who kill the baby may not be looked upon quite as favorably.
You don’t have to have a brain or any morals to be a priest in anybody’s religion.
This guy proved he has neither.
Morgana, you picked out a couple of stories that really set me off. It’s amazing how people can rationalize evil for their convenience.
If this is true he can justify murder because not only does every living person have original sin, they’ve sinned a lot more than those babies did.
The “pastor” is a joke and a half.
This is really a new low in intellectual sickness.
This demonic doctrine that has infiltrated the Methodist Church is why my husband left that denomination. Sadly, this hellish stuff is not confined to just one denomination.
Many mainline denominations are electing political correctness over Scripture, performing gay marriages and embracing abortion.
We currently attend a non-denominational church, but any hint of this mess, and we will be ought of there.
And his excuse for not being sinful is????
Just when we thought we had heard every possible justification for abortion,this guy comes stumbling out of the dark.
If it’s the same Swomley I saw on Google, he’s five years dead. But his arguments are still so stupid I’m sorely tempted to track down his grave, dig up his remains, slap his skull, and then reinter them. We’re talking Billy Madison grade stupid.
Insane.
It is too bad this POS Methodist minister’s mother did not abort him! And he will go to hell for holding his abortionist assumptions.
I didn’t know of Swomley, so I looked him up. First of all, he kicked the bucket in 2010 at the age of 95, which shows that only the good die young. He seemed to have spent his long life and career on the wrong side of every issue. He was a major anti-Catholic and critic of Mother Theresa. To the extent that he still has influence today, it could be his stench blowing in from the bowels of hell.
Swomley. Boko Haram could use a spokesperson like him. Might improve their images.
Reason no. 1,973,888 that I’m so sad that my sister and her family are United(or it untied?) Methodists. :(
I once interacted (not here; on a completely different part of the Internet) with a hyper-Calvinist who thought aborting babies was no big deal, since none of them could possibly be among the Elect (or God wouldn’t permit them to be aborted).
Dear God. How far must our culture sink? We are cursed with original sin because of Adam and Eve. But we are not guilty of the inception of that curse. We are only resposible for our own individual acts/sins.
Babies do not have ability to commit a personal sin and are therefore completely innocent.