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Has someone invited you to participate nb a gay relatonship?
No answer?
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If we do not acceopt our friend for who they are and where they are, are we relly being Christ lke?
You can accept them, but the acceptance should not include pushing them further into trouble. You should NOT supply an alcoholic with more booze. Your 'help' and 'acceptance' is causing more damage than good.
and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
John 2:11
Unless there is a different definition of DRUNK--having too much to drink is DRUNK..
figures ... this never ending futile attempts to justify ungodly behavior.
How's this for an alternative John 2:9-11:
the master of the banquet called the bridegroom aside because the bridegroom disapproved of what "everyone" else did since being drunk is not God pleasing. And since the bridegroom was more interested in what God approves than seeking approval of men by having unlimited wine and being held accountable for encouraging and endorsing an ungodly behavior, Jesus found his way to be present at this wedding.
And because it was the bridegroom's desire to keep the wedding in accordance to a God pleasing atmosphere, the bridegroom did something else unlike "everybody" else ... he limited the amount available, thus Mary's comment to Jesus: "They have run out of wine".
An alcoholic can repent from a lifestyle of drunkenness and not get drunk anymore. A gay wedding, they will be living a lifestyle of sexual immorality before and after that wedding that God will never recognize. Pretty much just 2 friends having sex, since marriage is defined as man and woman only in the eyes of God.
Yes, a gay wedding is an official commitment to live the rest of your life in sin.
Supplying booze to someone who suffers from alcoholism is a horrible idea, but an enabler/appeaser will do such things thinking he is being "loving".
An alcoholic can repent from a lifestyle of drunkenness and not get drunk anymore. A gay wedding, they will be living a lifestyle of sexual immorality before and after that wedding that God will never recognize. Pretty much just 2 friends having sex, since marriage is defined as man and woman only in the eyes of God.
you assume everybody believes in your SPIRIT IN THE SKY fiction
Yeah, and there's the problem. They think they know what the invisible man in the sky thinks
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attending a wedding is not a crime or a sin you you dope /. sin is a *concept * created by the christian church to control the masses
murder is a crime so to partake in it in any way would be wrong ..get it
WHY are you posting in the CHRISTIAN forum when you reject its basic teachings? Yes, homosexuality is a grave and capital sin. Putting your friendship with the world above obedience to God is a sin. Yes it is wrong, which was the absurd question.
Of course God gave you free will to give Him the finger and align yourself with sinners in the practice of their sins.
YOUR CHOICE!
Of course, at the end of this short life is the JUDGEMENT.
If you promote a LIE in the name of Christ, some of us will take you to task
and said, "Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now."
John 2:11
Unless there is a different definition of DRUNK--having too much to drink is DRUNK..
Apparently you don't have comprehension.
He didn't say the guests were DRUNK. He spoke about what OTHERS do.
Do you call yourself Christian?
If you do, you don't need an answer from me.
If you're an unbeliever, ask me as an unbeliever with a sincere heart and I will explain this BASIC Christian principle. Really, I think you're just a troll, trying to throw up dust to confuse those truly unterested in a life that pleases God.
So the fundamentalists believe gays cannot be christian and that they are sinners like the rest of the unbelievers. So why it they have to ask about gays and not the rest of the sinners in respect to a scenario that the OP is asking about. Correct me if i am wrong but fundamentalists believe we are born in sin, so it is not so much what we have done which is the problem but what they believe we are............ Sinners by nature. Can you at least be consistent and discriminate against all sinners, rather than just our gay and atheist friends ?. Thank you
Have your other Christian friends gotten married? Did you go to those weddings? Were they free of sin?
Try thinking of it this way. No one is free of sin (as I'm guessing you're implying), but someone who chooses to continue homosexual romance or intercourse after marriage is perpetuating that sin indefinitely with no conviction to change their ways. It's like asking if someone should go to their friend's wedding who they know is an adulterer. Would it be ok for them to show up at the wedding to support the marriage, if they know the man or woman is having an affair, that they will be sleeping with their adulterous lover that wedding night, and will also continue the adulterous relationship long after being married? What if the friend, who is also a follower of Christ, sees no wrong in cheating on their partner and continuing the affair? Would it still be ok to be a "good" friend and support their sin? Does the fact that their friend sees no harm in having an ongoing affair mean that it must be ok, or that God approves of it?
Some may answer "Of course not!", because affairs and adultery are looked down upon by almost all people - Christian or non-Christian. That's irrelevant, however because even though general human moral code may say it's wrong, the fact that God declares that it's wrong is vastly more important. Even those that are not of the kingdom of God do "moral" things from time to time, but they are still lost to sin in God's eyes as they don't have the hope of glory in Jesus Christ.
Since homosexuality has become more accepted in worldwide culture, people believe it's ok for someone to perpetuate that sin even after accepting Christ. Yes, God does forgive us of our sins if we repent of them, but repentance doesn't mean we ask for forgiveness and then keep on sinning with a hardened heart that destructively resists God. It means we do our utmost with the strength of the Spirit in us to reject that urge to sin and live in accordance with God's will. I can't understand how blatantly defying God and condoning sin can be endorsed by any Christians who are truly open to hearing the Spirit of God.
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