Episcopal Leaders Refrain from Disciplining Breakaway Clergy

absojc »

Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:31 pm Agree: 3   Disagree: 2

IMHO, they realized how stupid they looked because these priests are still recognized as being in good standing in the Anglican Communion.

Protestant Leaders Unwavering in Commitment to 'Conversation'

absojc »

Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:31 am Agree: 4   Disagree: 0

Unadulterated drivel, plan and simple.

South Africans Launch Conservative Anglican Fellowship

absojc »

Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:06 am Agree: 5   Disagree: 1

The Faithful Remnant...

Episcopal Head Clarifies 'Heresy' Comments

absojc »

Sat Aug 29, 2009 12:36 am Agree: 5   Disagree: 0

Jesusloveyou:

I think this is the Scripture you were thinking of:

Matthew 22:37-40 (New International Version)
Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a] This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b] All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Paul summed it up quite nicely as well...

Galatians 5:14
The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself." (Also see Romans 13:9)

but like the song by Haddaway asks... "What is love?"

I Corinthians 13:6 (New International Version)
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.

and it would be evil to 'love' someone 'where they are' in their sin and leave them there.

ELCA Opens Ordination to Noncelibate Homosexuals

absojc »

Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:58 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

So was the tornado last week a warning from God? Check out the cross on the top of the ELCA Church right next to the convention center...

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1965_the_tornado_the_lutherans_and_homosexuality/

ELCA Opens Ordination to Noncelibate Homosexuals

absojc »

Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:58 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

Flagged as inappropriate. show So was the tornado last week a warning from God? Check out the cross on the top of the ELCA Church right next to the convention center... http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1965_the_tornado_the_lutherans_and_homosexuality/ hide

Lutherans Close Assembly Conflicted Over Gay Vote

absojc »

Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:57 am Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

Flagged as inappropriate. show So was the tornado last week a warning from God? Check out the cross on the top of the ELCA Church right next to the convention center... http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1965_the_tornado_the_lutherans_and_homosexuality/ hide

ELCA Opens Ordination to Noncelibate Homosexuals

absojc »

Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:20 pm Agree: 4   Disagree: 1

garageguy » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:09 pm

"I challenge you to tell me what this has to do with me and my civil rights? I don't share your faith."

Well since this is a thread about a God's church your civil rights don't amount to much here, and if you don't share our faith, then GO AWAY!

The Bible clearly tells us not to continue in vain arguments with a person who is divisive (Titus 3:10) such as yourself, so I challenge everyone else here to completely ignore all the divisive peoples here, because GOD tells you to!

ELCA Opens Ordination to Noncelibate Homosexuals

absojc »

Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:15 pm Agree: 5   Disagree: 3

at some point they will have to join forces with the Episcopalians and UCC folks just to keep their doors open, and in the end that won't work as well, because only God's true church will be standing, and these ain't those...

Lutherans Open Debate on Sexuality Statement

absojc »

Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:55 am Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

"Same thing as when we ‘changed’ our definition of scripture to allow for a round earth"

Really? Where in the Bible does it say that the earth is flat? In actuality, it says the opposite, despite what Rome may have said.

Lutherans Open Debate on Sexuality Statement

absojc »

Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:50 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

chicago24 » Wed Aug 19, 2009 6:04 pm : 0 : 4 Flag
They better not be serving shrimp at these meetings. That would constitute an abandonment of scripture as well.


Oh, if you only knew what 'fulfillment of Scripture' was...

Lutherans Narrowly Adopt New Sexuality Statement

absojc »

Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:47 am Agree: 6   Disagree: 0

This says it all:

Before adopting the statement, assembly delegates had to consider 13 proposed amendments, including one that sought to replace a section of the social statement about "lifelong monogamous same-gender relationships” with one that asserts the "practice of homosexual erotic behavior as contrary to God's intent."

In a 667-303 vote, the assembly opted against the aforementioned change, following the recommendation of an ad hoc committee that advised against the amendment’s adoption since the position articulated implies "a consensus that no longer exists."

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:17 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 1

LORDSHEPARD:

I can only restate what I said early as to the Greek word 'arsenokoitai'...

Having the tendencies, but not acting on them IS NOT a sin. The best English translations for the Greek word 'arsenokoitai' are the NIV and the Amplified, which clearly show an active participation necessary for it to be a sin. Why? Because the original language says so.

Arsenokoitai - Male Bed Partners (literal translation), hence if someone is not acting on those tendencies, they do not fit this literal translation description, because when one is in bed alone, he cannot fit this description no matter what his/her tendencies are...

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Tue Aug 18, 2009 12:03 am Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

To LORDSHEPARD...

I don't know if you got to see this post from yesterday, now that it is 7 pages ago....


To all who are wooed by the 'Jerome Conspiracy'... be careful as not to think that a person who dies in their sins won't spend eternity in hell.

It seems this belief that there is not an eternal hell for unrepentant sinners comes from the actual Greek meaning for the words in Matthew 25:46 "eternal punishment". In Greek it is “aionios kolasis” AIONIOS meaning "lasting for an age" and KOLASIS meaning "chastisement, correction, punishment" which is then meant to mean that someone is only punished for a "long enduring punishment" and that they say is not forever. However, Scripture makes it clear that the next life is forever, so the long enduring punishment may only be 'lasting for an age', but if the next 'age' is without end...

Of course to believe that the punishment is only for an age with an end, then you also have to embrace the idea that those that are rightous are only entering a life that is lasting only for an age as well...

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:49 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

garageguy » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:58 pm : 2 : 1 Flag "I don't think anything has happened to him, which is sad. What a weak bishop!"

"You shouldn't be so quick to judge. I have been there, and what I saw was a packed church full of happy, peaceful catholics going to mass. Period."

Happily and peacefully marching down that broad road towards destruction!

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:45 pm Agree: 0   Disagree: 0

IHS » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:23 pm : 0 : 5 Flag
"I go to Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary."



I wonder if you know a youth pastor friend of mine who attends there... Micah from Fairfield, CT?

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:43 pm Agree: 2   Disagree: 0

IacceptHim » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:09 pm : 6 : 0 Flag
"A person can be homosexual and come to Christ but can't be in Christ and stay homosexual."

EXACTLY!

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:40 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

IHS » Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:07 pm : 0 : 3 Flag


Getting back on track, can an ACTIVELY HOMOSEXUAL MAN be saved without repenting of this sin??????


NO!

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:38 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

IHS said:

"The Catholic Church only annuls marriages that didn't truly exist in the first place."

Puuuleasee! Only annuls marriages IF THE PRICE IS RIGHT is more like it! Think: Ted Kennedy.

Lutherans Brace for Policy-Setting Sexuality Debates

absojc »

Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:34 pm Agree: 1   Disagree: 0

IHS » Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:01 pm : 0 : 1 Flag Amaranth,

You said IF THEY(fornicators) REPENT, they will be saved. I agree. What if they won't repent and still believe and accept Jesus? Will they still be saved without repentance?

Isn't a second marriage adultery? Last time I checked in the Holy Word of God, we can only be married once. So, no matter your reason and no matter how unfair isn't a second marriage in the eyes of God Adultery?


NOT ALWAYS...