Psalm 7:11
"God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day." Ps. 7:11
Violent protests have been taking place outside a Focus on the Family "Love Won Out" conference in Boston. This conference was for people who want to get out of the homosexual death-style and seek the Lord's forgiveness and healing.
"On its weblog after the protest, QueerToday.com...expressed obvious delight in the impact [of their protest]."
Quote: "The twighlight of the Right's twenty-five year reign of terror is quickly approaching. This protest is probably the largest confrontation [Love Won Out] has experienced, and hopefully our example will inspire others to take similar stands against them. We will continue to hold homophobes accountable for their actions, regardless of what kind of sugary, sing-songy voices they say 'God loves you' in. Yes, God loves us, but they don't."
Here's the problem. Christians need to quit saying stupid things like, "God hates the sin, but loves the sinner." This is patently false. It sends a confusing message to people bound by the abomination of homosexuality that they can continue in their depravity but be "loved" by God, anyway.
In actuality, Romans 1 says "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men." Who? Specifically "men [who] likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. ... Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
1 Cor. 6:9-10 spells it out: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality...will inherit the kingdom of God."
"Whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." John 3:36
Charles Finney stated, years ago:
"God is not angry merely against the sin abstracted from the sinner, but against the sinner himself. Some persons have labored hard to set up this ridiculous and absurd abstraction, and would fain make it appear that God is angry at sin, yet not at the sinner. He hates the theft, but loves the thief. He abhors adultery, but is pleased with the adulterer. Now this is supreme nonsense.
The sin has no moral character apart from the sinner. The act is nothing apart from the actor. The very thing that God hates and disapproves is not the mere event—the thing done in distinction from the doer; but it is the doer himself. It grieves and displeases Him that a rational moral agent, under His government, should array himself against his own God and Father, against all that is right and just in the universe. This is the thing that offends God. The sinner himself is the direct and the only object of his anger."
The "Love" that will "Win Out" is that God in His LOVE, sacrificied His Son and became sin on the Cross, so that every one of us could be granted repentence from dead works, be crucified with Him, and turn away from vile abominations.
Thank you, Jesus!
Violent protests have been taking place outside a Focus on the Family "Love Won Out" conference in Boston. This conference was for people who want to get out of the homosexual death-style and seek the Lord's forgiveness and healing.
"On its weblog after the protest, QueerToday.com...expressed obvious delight in the impact [of their protest]."
Quote: "The twighlight of the Right's twenty-five year reign of terror is quickly approaching. This protest is probably the largest confrontation [Love Won Out] has experienced, and hopefully our example will inspire others to take similar stands against them. We will continue to hold homophobes accountable for their actions, regardless of what kind of sugary, sing-songy voices they say 'God loves you' in. Yes, God loves us, but they don't."
Here's the problem. Christians need to quit saying stupid things like, "God hates the sin, but loves the sinner." This is patently false. It sends a confusing message to people bound by the abomination of homosexuality that they can continue in their depravity but be "loved" by God, anyway.
In actuality, Romans 1 says "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men." Who? Specifically "men [who] likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. ... Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
1 Cor. 6:9-10 spells it out: "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality...will inherit the kingdom of God."
"Whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him." John 3:36
Charles Finney stated, years ago:
"God is not angry merely against the sin abstracted from the sinner, but against the sinner himself. Some persons have labored hard to set up this ridiculous and absurd abstraction, and would fain make it appear that God is angry at sin, yet not at the sinner. He hates the theft, but loves the thief. He abhors adultery, but is pleased with the adulterer. Now this is supreme nonsense.
The sin has no moral character apart from the sinner. The act is nothing apart from the actor. The very thing that God hates and disapproves is not the mere event—the thing done in distinction from the doer; but it is the doer himself. It grieves and displeases Him that a rational moral agent, under His government, should array himself against his own God and Father, against all that is right and just in the universe. This is the thing that offends God. The sinner himself is the direct and the only object of his anger."
The "Love" that will "Win Out" is that God in His LOVE, sacrificied His Son and became sin on the Cross, so that every one of us could be granted repentence from dead works, be crucified with Him, and turn away from vile abominations.
Thank you, Jesus!
posted by Jason at 11/03/2005 07:04:00 PM
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