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Originally Posted by Sherri
I agree PO, and I have lots of fond memories of UPC. But it just saddens me that it's getting more and more divisive. It's scary, really.
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Sherri,
From the inside - there are many of us that are following after the Lord and not getting involved in all of this. Don't get me wrong, we've had our share of problems, but God has seen us through and we are doing really well. Today, I am happier than I have ever been. We are not the only organization or people that have had or are having problems. That is why I don't get really alarmed about all of this.
What I want to do is discuss the scriptures that I have questions about and have always had questions about supporting, i.e.,
Deut 22:5. I don't mind that an organization desires to have what they believe to be modesty in a "cultural" America. What I don't want to do is stand on a scripture as a heaven or hell issue when it is not. I have to answer to God someday and that's the important thing to me.
Do I answer to man or to God? I'm with the apostles - "...we ought to obey God rather than man.."
I think it's okay to discuss scripture, but I'm not going to criticize men or organizations because I know God is in our midst, we don't know or see the end game and it would mean that I am criticizing every single member. I am unwilling to do that because I believe I would be broadbrushing.
If Papbear or some else would come back and lay out the Biblical "principle" of
Deut 22:5 without taking it out of context, I am willing to listen. If I am wrong, I would repent, apologize and embrace it!
As far as what it looks like to me, it's a morality issue, a matter of the heart and not a wardrobe issue. For a man or woman to change into another's clothing to "become or exist as" the opposite sex is serious and so is the word "abomination". In that context, I am unwilling to believe, at this point, it is about a women wearing a pair of pants.
On a side note - I wonder why it is such an oddity for a man to wear a woman's clothes, but no one turns heads when a women is wearing something a man would wear?
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