We are not longer living under Old Tesatment rule, so no need for us to pick up stones.
God is a just and righteous God and he will give the right punishement.
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**Original Matthew 28:19 Restored**
We are not longer living under Old Tesatment rule, so no need for us to pick up stones.
God is a just and righteous God and he will give the right punishement.
Amen.
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
It is a requirement that we stand for the full Truth. It is a fact that the homosexual community encourages children to experiment with homosexuality (conversion). They also seek to promote its acceptance and celebration in our modern culture. This they have done by steadily infiltrating various media. They have been involved in theater, acting, and prostitution for thousands of years, however, they are now taking control of the schools, judiciary, and business.
We must continue to proclaim the Truth with love and grace, while never compromising the Word. We may not accept their lifestyle as anything less than sinful. However, we should not teach against it only, but also against all deception, fornication, adultery, lying, murder, hatred, drunkeness and intoxication, and all of the other works of the flesh. Many homosexuals are involved in one or more of these sins as well. Thus, we must deal with the whole matter, and not just the one individual sin. The whole heart is wicked and vile in the sight of God, and this must be proclaimed.
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I am an Apostolic Pentecostal. Apostolic in teaching, and Pentecostal in experience.
1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around with tall people will make you tall.
3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
4. Straight marriage has been around for a long time; and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property; blacks can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Brittany Spears’ 55 hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children; Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion; In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we only have one religion in America.
9. Children can never succeed without a male and female role model at home. That’s why we as a society strictly forbid single parents to raise children.
10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
Looks like something I'd post!
But, of course, the real reason same sex marriage should not be legal:
4. What’s the harm from SSM? “How can Adam and Steve hurt your marriage?”
A: “Who gets harmed? The people of this state who lose our right to define marriage as the union of husband and wife, that’s who. That is just not right.”
Yes. If some people can't define marriage the way they want, it harms them.
Sam seems to me you posted ten reasons to support gay marriages.
If you support what ia an abomination to God then you can't call yourself a Christian. God does not support gay rights. God did not make people gay!
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Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
Frankly, this entire debate could be resolved if the GOVERNMENT got OUT of the marriage business. The GOVERNEMNT doesn't define marriage. Frankly, the fact that I have to go to the GOVERNMENT and receive a LICENSE (which I pay the government for) to get married is sickening to me. It's NONE of the GOVERNMENT'S business who I wish to marry, why I wish to marry, or that I have even married. Marriage is a PRIVATE agreement between individuals to cohabitate and share physical intimacy. For nearly 1,500 years the church recognized, and blessed, a marriage even if the two people only agreed to be husband and wife out behind a haystack and told two witnesses that they were married. GOVERNMENT began to set it's sights on marriage through royal decrees when royalty began having illegitimate children in order to secure inheritance. Next we see the marriage license being instituted in the United States to prevent blacks and whites from marrying. And now today every couple that wants to be married has to grovel at the feet of the GOVERNMENT and pay for a license as though the GOVERNMENT is the arbitrator all that is holy. And since our tax dollars fund the government groups have the power to SWAY the GOVERNMENT to redefine marriage and divorce. Marriage has been redefined already by the constant revision of divorce law. The stipulations of marriage that existed 20 years ago don't exist today because of divorce law. For example, today we have "no fault divorce". That cheapened marriage more than gays wanting to live together and call it a "marriage". Then we have issues of RELIGIOUS LIBERTIES. Not all religions or churches denounce gay marriages. I know an Episcopal priest who travels outside of the country to unite gay couples because the GOVERNMENT will not allow him to practice his religion (which is far too liberal for my tastes) here in the "land of the free". My vote is that we PRIVATIZE MARRIAGE. Get GOVERNMENT out of it and allow individuals to establish a private contract that establishes a civil union between adults. As far as I'm your tennic coach should be able to marry you if you want them to. Then it's a PRIVATE issue and if we don't like it as churches, we don't have to acknowledge it as ligit... just like those churches that don't recognize second marriages. What really gets to me is how liberals want to expand the GOVERNMENT'S power to redefine marriage and conservatives want to use the police force of GOVERNMENT to maintain their definition of marriage. Common theme here... both are worshiping at the altar of GOVERNMENT, groveling for the GOVERNMENT to either protect the current definition of marriage or expand the current definition of marriage. Frankly, it's none of the GOVERNMENT'S business.
Let's get the GOVERNENT'S grimey paws off of this because it's only dividing the nation and increasing the GOVERNMENT'S power over perhaps the most sacred private instititution on earth... marriage.
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