Posted on 05/27/2020 8:16:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sorry, I am compelled to reply. Let me see if I understand your misguided point. Support government funded abortion, government decree to remove the Bible from schools, government enacted laws to support gay marriage. Me thinks you have lost your way.
1 Peter 2:16 Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil,
I do care if you are potentially spreading a plague under the name of Jesus. That is evil.
There is only one reason. Because an church is made up of individuals. Which means they all have different opinions.
There you go. I just saved you fifteen minutes of reading.
Wow, I am again compelled to reply. Define pandemic, epidemic, ....Epidemics are death rates approaching 7 percent, pandemics much less. I find it simply amazing how a flu with a 0.2 percent death rate( pandemic) has scared the living snot out of Christians! Never before in the history of mankind has FEAR alone destroyed a world economy. Fact is Christians that preceded us were strong Christians unlike today. Acts 5:29 ,” We must obey God instead of men”. From this day forward I have realized how the evil one gains control of the world in the later days so easily. Fear. Unbelief.
Little/ No Faith. You would do well to read Acts 5, the Apostles beaten by the council, told not to preach, but they continued to return to the CHURCH EVERYDAY and preach. What is it you do not understand about being fearful?
If God is calling you to cut off your hand and pluck out your eye, who am I to stand in His way?
We are all always potentially spreading a plague. Viruses are constantly circulating. There is nothing new here.
If we can only go to church if we are certain we carry nothing that could possibly kill anyone then we can never go to church.
Hebrews 10:25, KJV: “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”
Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Exodus 1:Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
17The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live. 18So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
19The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
20So God was good to the midwives, and the people multiplied and became even more numerous. 21And because the midwives feared God, He gave them families of their own.
Wouldn't you assume that the local bishops WOULD adhere to the state's civil law?
Laws are formed from morals/ethics.
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