No,,,Sister in God,,, you should know by now, that there is NOT a better Christian, for a dark night, when it comes to arms, killing, and death. Which "I" have already done,,,
In those "dark times" yes, I believe my prayers go straight to the top... and I get answers..
Gays have been around,,, forever. ALL SIN is exactly the same!! With the possible exception of child abuse, which the Christ issued his only threat against.
I thought like you, and I was convicted, but I still did not know the way. Like I have said, before, strangely enough, I pray with a Sioux Medicine man, in a sweat lodge, and I attend church when I find one that actually teaches the gospel, not politics of this world. I have prayed and thought extremely hard on this.
The Christ said, the church is a hospital and he the Dr.
If SIN is mans "dis-ease" what better place for the afflicted, than the hospital of God,, with the rest of us sinners?
To be sure, we are having NO Effect on them,,, give them over to God. If he wants them changed, he will change them. That is how it was done to me, and you,,, why should we convert by the sword?? Especially, when the one who wields that sword, will be ME, not you? I have seen enough blood.
When I pray,,, I still my mind,,,, and that is incredibly hard, and I listen for the word of God,,,,I listen,,,, I don't "cut him off" and insert what I think, "OUGHT TO HAPPEN".... there is no way for a creation, to "Help" god, get to the GD!! Point,,, he will get there in his time, and doesn't seek me out to write the operations nor execution order.
If God, tells me to attack,,, woe be to the target,,, but no pastor, no other Christian, and certainly no govt asshole has that power over me.
The ONLY thing we can all agree on, that IF this is a problem, then the Govt is NOT the entity to "remedy" it,,, that is, if there is anything you can point out to me, that the Govt has actually done right, except take our money and usurp power.
rhomin57 wrote:
As a believer in Jesus Christ, you may be one of those fair-weather Christians. Maybe one of those 'submarine' Christians that surface only on Holiday SundaysJesus Christ states that "Because of their iniquities, He GAVE THEM UP to their iniquities..."
24 Wherefore God also **gave them up** to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature (someone with a dead soul) more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God **gave them up** unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. (Eve was the 'help-meet' for Adam meaning she was made for his body, and to help with doing the child bearing, and raising the children. This still stands!)
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, **God gave them over to a reprobate mind,** (meaning de-based, no foundation of life) to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, **without natural affection,** implacable, unmerciful:
32 **Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.**
How can you, late in life, decide that God's Word should bend, especially when it states they are worthy of death? You should be helping them to release this curse that God gave them up to, not helping them into spiritual death.
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