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Ministry Distributes 'Origin of Species' with Intelligent Design Intro
TWPeck »Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:57 am
Agree: 6 
Disagree: 3
The reality is that "evolution" is a changing field of study. New finds cause revisions and rethinking about the results of this process, but, interestingly, no one can yet explain how this works or what are the causes other than adaptation, which needs to be at a much higher pace.
Scientific study that is contrary to evolutionary theory is often ignored and automatically thrown out as "unscientific", but one has to wonder if that has more to do with the naturalistic world view of the reviewers than seeking truth.
Creationists might be like those who were flat-earthers but they might be right and until evolution becomes a proven natural law then it is unseemly of the scientific community to deny the arena of review to creationists and deny without examination. Creationists question the conclusions not the facts. -
One cannot help but believe that the producers of these movies view the "faith community" as just another revenue source. There are lots of movies with a similar themes that do not require the "faith community" to go gung-ho and rent theaters and give out passes. Aren't we already over entertained and under challenged enough?
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The attempt here is not "civil" rights, but to have something that most people view as 'abnormal' (i.e. homosexual behavior) as "normal", and the people time and again are saying "no" to redefining the meaning of marriage to meet the felt-needs of a few who want justification for a sinful behavior.
Given these defeats, I would not be surprised if the next thrust of the movement would be to consider 'marriage' as a homophobic term and then seek to remove it as a legal status altogether. -
United Methodist Court Affirms Stance Against Homosexuality
TWPeck »Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:23 am Agree: 4 Disagree: 3
MIke85
Love is relational. Sex is physical. God finds any sin outside of marriage between a man and woman as against His design.
However, I am aware that most people trapped in sexual desire define themselves by those desires. My hope is that you escape this snare and define yourself in Christ. -
United Methodist Court Affirms Stance Against Homosexuality
TWPeck »Tue Nov 10, 2009 11:17 am Agree: 4 Disagree: 2
MickeyC and Mike85
Please read my post a little closer. Homosexual behavior (the act) is the sin (1 Cor 6:9, 1 Tim 1:10 ), but it is no worse a sin than any other.
It is unfortunate that too many Christians focus on this particular sin when they have need to work on those others as well. Sin is pretty insidious, and it causes all of us to be unrighteous and unable to be in the presence of a holy, pure and righteous God. That is why we need Christ, who offers salvation by repenting (a recognition that we do fall short of even our own standards and God's standards) and recieving Christ as Lord and Savior. -
United Methodist Court Affirms Stance Against Homosexuality
TWPeck »Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:38 am Agree: 6 Disagree: 3
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Please be kind to those who disagree about the Truth of Scripture or try to distort it. Those trapped in sin go to great length to justify their sin so that they do not have to face the reality of their situation. No Christian should ever hope that anyone be condemned by their sins to eternal separation from God. We need to speak the Truth in Love.
I apologize to the writers here who do not agree with what Scripture says about homosexual behavior - that it is a sin just like self-righteousness, pride, lying, stealing, lusting, avarice, selfishness, greed, and hating. These behaviors are antithetical to God's character in which image we were created.
I encourage all believers to be nice but firm with those who have not yet had the blinders removed from their eyes. Pray more for them than argue with them. -
gargeguy - just got to read your posts back to me, and it seems to me that you're the one making judgements about others because they oppose you.
I thought that your side was the open-minded side, that accepted people as they are, that abhors hate, yet hate spills from your every post with name-calling and vilification.
You must have been deeply hurt by someone who claimed to be a Christian. I am sorry for that, but that does not dispute the reality of your state before God.
Repent and recieve Christ as Lord and Savior and be saved. -
Garageguy: Peck, it is not against the law to be gay. Hence, there is no legal basis on which to deny gay people 100% equality under the law. Period.
That is my point. Anyone can marry, but they have to do so within the legal definition of that term which is between a man and a woman. Your side wants to redefine it, our side says no, but it is a superfluous argument to say that there is a "rights" violation here. It would be like saying that men are denied preganancy coverage even though they cannot get pregnant. We have family medical leave. My wife (or female partner) has coverage under my plan but it is not my pregnancy coverage.
"You can believe anything you want. But your personal beliefs (based on supernatural beings, no less!) have no bearing on civic society. "
Garageguy, you want your personal beliefs (based on whatever) to be the rule, why shouldn't I have the same recourse?
"By the way, according to the APA anda thousand other objective institutions, homosexuality IS normal. It is simply a natural variant in human sexual orientation. Nothing more, nothing less."
Yes, the AMA did after much lobbying and pressure from the Homosexual lobby to remove as a disorder form the DSM, but the main emphasis of the AMA was not to normalize but to end abusive treatment for homosexuality that some were wrongfully engaging in and the misconception that by saying homosexual desires were wrong led to further psyhosis.
Also, there is a strong presence of homosexuals in the psychological field.
Either way, it was not based on any empirical data, just a change of opinon that resulted in it no longer being viewed as a disorder. However, I do not see where a bunch of psychologists have any more insight to "normalcy" than you or I.
I get my definition of normalcy from the way God intended man to be, in His image, to the way sin has distorted that intention, sinful man, and how God will redeem normalcy one day through the blood of Christ. Repent and recieve Christ and be started on teh journey back to normalcy - which is a right relationslhip with God. -
Cindy 444: it is a shame that you cannot stand on the Word of God for your position, only your experience, but I want you to understand something - I do not hate homosexuals. I was one once myself (well, actually bi-sexual) and it is a struggle not to embrace the desires of my lust, but my greater desire is for God to be glorified. My hope is that will also be yours.
Thanks for the conversation. -
Cindy 444: So as a Christian, I should refuse the pull of the flesh with my husband of 17 years?"
No, because God said the marriage bed is undefiled. Any sexual relations outside that parameter is a sin.
I have not claimed to "know their hearts" and am not judging them. The issue is not whether they are "good" or "bad" from our standards, but what are they (and ourselves) from God's standards. If we, as Christians, don't provide both love and truth, then we are failing.
If they were about to step off a curb and be hit by a truck would it be "unloving" to grab their arm? According to many that answer would be yes because we are being "judgemental" about the behavior but in fact we are being very loving. Love is about giving up self and doing that which is in the best interest of others. Telling them that they are sinning and need to repent is a whole lot better than saying that they are good. If they listen, they will thank you on Judgement day. If not, they will be moaning from hell. -
garageguy: when did we vote in gay marriage? It has been done by judicial ruling or legislative fiat. Maine voters did not vote to violate a given right, but to deny a redefinition of a privelege.
To compare this, though, to the laws banning "interracial" marriage though, is comparing apples to oranges. No one was redefining the meaning of marriage (and, by the way there are not different races, only one race, the human race). Homosexual marriage is a redefining of the term as it is legally codified.
No one has been denied the right to "marry", a man can still marry a woman (and vice versa). What has been denied is to redefine that term to meet the felt-needs of a minority grou. -
Cindy 444 said: I'm curious to my fellow Christians here....do you know any gay or lesbian people? Truly. I know some loving, Christian homosexuals and I value their friendship, their fellowship and the beauty of them as fellow humans created by God and as worthy of God's love and grace as I."
Those are nice sentiments Cindy, but here is the problem. It is not hate to tell someone they are engagin in a sin, but the homosexual agenda wants otherwise.
That agenda is not for tolerance but an acceptance that says "I am normal for having these desires". The goal is for a society that says there is no sexual immorality. It is simply a hedonistic.
There are many fine loving people out there, homosexual or otherwise, who are sinning. You and I sin, but the difference is that we KNOW we sin, hence we repent. A Christian who sins and then denies the sin should wonder about his/her salvation, because salvation comes through repentance and recieving Christ as Lord and Savior.
With Christ as Lord, that means we strive to obey and if we stumble we recognize the stumble and go to Him for help with that stumble. The Homosexual Agenda wants to deny that stumble. That is why it so adamently opposes change therapy and desperately seeks the "gay" gene and argues that their attractions are not a choice but who they are. The reality is that they may become comfortable with "who they are" but is God? Clearly Scripture teaches otherwise.
When we are born again we become new creations. That new creation should desire God over self. It means opposing the pull of the flesh for the joy of the Spirit. Unrepentant "Homosexual" (and non-homosexual) Christians who are embracing the flesh, even though they may be lovely persons on the outside but it is the difference between the cover and the pages within the book.
The main reason Christians should oppose changing the definition of marriage, just as we should oppose no-fault divorce, in that it not only legitimizes a sin, but also will lead to suppression of our right to express that homosexuality is a sin. -
Rob Bell Takes Thousands on Journey of 'Creativity and Suffering'
TWPeck »Tue Sep 29, 2009 6:58 am Agree: 3 Disagree: 12
I heard Mr. Bell when the church was still meeting at the home school center gym in Grand Rapids on a visit to my son who was attending the church while at college.
Mr. Bell was all the rage and the attendance was huge.
When he spoke, though, I did not get the attraction and still do not. His approach sounds very intellectual and warm and fuzzy (and full of good works), but he often misses or passes by the Gospel.
The mentioned attempt to "rediscovering Christianity as an Eastern religion and a way of life and embracing mystery" shows how far from the Bible he has journeyed.
I pray for his salvation as he is embracing self over Christ. -
U.K. Anglicans Opt for Biblical Reform Over Split
TWPeck »Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:59 pm Agree: 1 Disagree: 0
the only way to avoid a fracture is for those who have wandered from the truth of Scripture to repent of their affront to the God they worship and embrace the truth of His Word. It is not a matter of "convincing" sound doctrine but embracing it.
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Adviser Quits Blair's Faith Foundation Over Gay Comments
TWPeck »Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:07 pm Agree: 0 Disagree: 1
Mr. Blair needs to take a short course in theology.
The OT laws fall into various categories: theocratic (for the operation of Israel as a theocracy), for those under the old covenant, ritual laws, and the moral laws.
I love how people want to compare one to another.
The laws regarding homosexual behavior are moral laws and these are affirmed in the New Testament.
Any sexual activity outside of marriage between one man and one woman is a sin...no matter how much you "love" the other person or thing.
Now, how should this play out in the public arena?
As a Christian, I should not be voting for those laws or leaders who violate my core beliefs, however, if those laws or leaders become fact, then I need to obey them so long as I am not personally called to violate them.
Also, through Christ, God's law moved from the mount to the heart in that it is imposed on each individual, not by society (though the church body does have a part in bringing the law to the members of the body) - so, just because we say "homosexuality is a sin" does not mean we are called to enforce God's law on that person anymore than "help the poor" means we should require someone else to pay for helping the poor.
Homosexual sin is clearly an affront to God, no matter how one feels about it (or even if they have that attraction). We are called to be self-controlled. -
Lutherans Weigh Making Gay Clergy a Local Decision
TWPeck »Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:36 am Agree: 3 Disagree: 0
I have a co-worker who is a committed Biblical Christian ELCA Lutheran (how's that for a description) and she is greatly pained by the denomination that she loves would ignore Scripture, God's Word, and listen to the tickling in their ears as they hoop jump to not only justify a sin so obvious, but to embrace and encourage those trapped in same-sex attraction to give up their struggle to be right with God.
What is next? Shall we de-sin divorce, lying, stealing, murder, fornication? Oops, guess we have already done that, so the next logical step is to remove sin as a problem and all sing Kumbya.
When sin is no longer a problem, there is no need for a Savior, and Christ on the cross becomes a meaningless sacrifice.
So He died for what? For us to be a better person? How can that be since we do not sin? -
Judge Won't Order Obama Not to Use 'God' in Oath
TWPeck »Sat Jan 17, 2009 7:38 am Agree: 3 Disagree: 1
Mr. Newdow and others are convoluted in their thinking, and it is good to read that a judge is finally standing up to these bullies.
The constitution says "Congress" shall not establish a religion. That clearly means the legislative body cannot pass a law saying the Presbyterianism or Catholicism or Islam or Atheism is the religion of the United States.
Only someone with a personal agenda could interpret this otherwise, and that has been the problem for many years. The judiciary of this country has become a legislative body, and unfortunately we now have a president who does not see nor seem to understand this.
Pray for our nation as freedoms will continue to erode and it is a matter of time before God will unleash His Wrath on our sinfulness. -
agentorangex - the difference is that those who died for Koresh, etc were anticipating the promise from their leaders while the Apostles had all witnessed and experienced that promise.
The point is that the Apostles would have know that the Resurrection was false, that Christ had not risen from the dead, that they were spreading a lie, yet none of them ever recanted despite horrible conditions such as torture and imprisonment. They did not die for what they believed to be true, they died because they knew it to be true as witnesses to that truth. -
Haggard Says He Still Struggles with Sexuality
TWPeck »Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:12 pm Agree: 1 Disagree: 1
Mr. Haggard,
We are all losers and we all struggle with sins.
It is only through Christ that we become victors and I applaud your honesty and your struggle to remain true and faithful to Him when most of the world is telling you to do otherwise.
You are not alone, brother in Christ.
Lets all say a prayer that Mr. Haggard is strengthened in the Lord. -
Interesting that it was found "offensive" but not untruthful.
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