American’s Nonexistent Conscience: “Woe to You, Hypocrites!”

The Truth Hurt?

I am always somewhat amused and irritated when I see Americans frothing at the mouth over “sex-crimes.” I am certain that the stench from American’s hypocritical protestations about “sex-crimes” nauseates our Lord in heaven! After all, Americans, of all the peoples on earth, should be very quiet when it comes to anything about sexual perversion, and “sex-crimes” in particular: child molestation. etc.

The Lord said to the self-righteous, and blood guilt ravaged, hypocrites who led Israel,

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, HYPOCRITES…”

Perhaps the Lord is now saying to Americans, “Woe to you, hypocrites!”
Why would the Lord be saying this to the new chosen people on earth (what a joke)?

Well let’s see, Americans are appalled at anyone having sex with a child, as they should be. And yet, Americans (American women, in particular) not only turn a blind eye to other atrocities American’s commit against children, but they even openly support these atrocities; just like the feminists are doing in the jpeg above.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, 30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; 32and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, BUT ALSO GIVE HEARTY APPROVAL TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM. (Romans 1)

These people speak of the stolen innocence of children who have been molested, and that this loss of innocence will last a lifetime. But at least a molested child has a life to live, even with lost innocence, whereas an aborted baby has neither life nor innocence. Thank the Lord that these murdered-in-their-mother’s-womb babies are with the Lord in heaven. But they were still robbed of this life, and by their own mothers. And life, unless I’m totally confused, is more precious than innocence; which will be lost, over time, by a child living in this world anyway. This hypocritical notion that innocence is more precious than life can be attributed to one thing, and one thing only, evolution/natural-selection, which devalues human life.

Hitler is alive and well! He has returned as the American Feminist Movement!

When it comes to American’s personal rights, in particular sodomites and feminists, then their overwhelming concern for children seems to be completely nonexistent! “Woe to you, hypocrites!”

Do you find this jpeg horrible and nauseating? So do I! You know why it is horrible and nauseating to us? Because these babies (children) were alive and well in their mother’s wombs, until they were brutally murdered! But the constitution and the “law of the land” come before the Law of our Lord and the right to LIFE of an unborn child!!
American men and women have sex like animals, and when the woman gets pregnant (another life in her womb), then, by law, she can commit murder (genocide), and on her own unborn child. I find this to be much more appalling than molestation of a child. In other words, when a woman becomes inconvenienced (because of her, and her partner’s, harlotry), by an “unwanted pregnancy,” then she simply has a “hit” put out on her own child! She, and her partner, if he is even made aware, become murderers in the eyes of our Lord. “Woe to you, Hypocrites!”

A mother murdering her own child is more perverse and demented than any act of sodomy or pedophilia, in my opinion. You talk about “unnatural” and “betrayal”, there is nothing so unnatural as a mother who not only doesn’t protect her child, but murders him or her in her own womb. There is no betrayal a human being can perpetrate on another that is worse than abortion! NONE!!!

Lastly, America is a warring nation. A nation that cares little for the civilian populations it destroys in the name of freedom (democracy), not God! So I guess Americans have no problem with blowing up children, just as long as their genitalia wasn’t touched. “Woe to you, Hypocrites!”

I despise injustice and hypocrisy, and this country is filled with hypocrites, and most Americans wouldn’t know justice if they were smacked in the head with it. And when American feminists go on and on about pedophilia, I literally have daggers in my mind and heart. Most, not all, pedophiles are mentally and emotionally ill. These sick people, men and women, have little control over themselves, they aren’t committing these horrendous acts because it’s their right. They, unlike American feminists, are not in control of their faculties. The American feminist and their Nazi-like doctors know exactly what they are perpetrating on alive children in the womb, so they are without any excuse! “Woe to you, Hypocrites!”

I heard a song the other day, and it was referring to this country as “God’s country.” If I were this songwriter, I would sit down, take a good look around, and reconsider the words I had written! This country is a hypocritical mess that is on its way out! It is anything but God’s country!!

“Same Sex Marriage”: What’s the Solution? America’s God, the Constitution!

It’s time, once again, for California’s homosexuals to whine about not having the “right” to hire divorce attorneys, get divorced, and pay alimony and child support. It’s just another day in the good old U.S. of A., where “freedom”, “rights” and “entitlements” (the unholy trinity) reign supreme.

June 16, 2010

Lawyer: Gays denied right by Calif. marriage ban

by Lisa Leff

The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — The landmark federal trial over the constitutionality of California’s gay marriage ban resumed Wednesday, with a lawyer arguing that supporters of the ban were trying to deprive same-sex couples of a relationship the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized as a fundamental right.

Chief U.S. Judge Vaughn Walker set aside five hours to hear closing arguments in the closely watched case.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson argued for the two same-sex couples who sued to overturn voter-approved Proposition 8, claiming it was a violation of their civil rights.

Olson said the U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized marriage as a fundamental right — one afforded to prisoners serving life sentences and child support scofflaws — while refusing to make procreation a precondition of marriage, as evidenced by laws allowing divorces and contraception. (emphasis added)

via Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Is there anyone else who is tired of this whole “same sex marriage” debate? Here’s a solution that would put an end to this circus: if there is nothing in the oh-so precious constitution stating that marriage is to be between a man and woman only, then gays, according to this “rights” oriented document, should be able to marry. Do I endorse marriage between a man and another man or a woman and another woman? Absolutely not, no more than I would endorse marriage between a man and a chimpanzee. But here’s the thing: all American patriots IDOL-ize the constitution, so, then, all American patriots should abide by the constitution, whether it, on particular issues, is offensive to them or not (let’s not “cherry pick”, patriots). There isn’t anything in the constitution that says marriage must be between a man and a woman, and if the constitution is as wonderful as all of you claim, then it can’t be wrong! Or can it?

There were homosexuals living together when this “holier-than-thou” manuscript was written, over two hundred years ago. So if the “founding fathers” (self-absorbed deists) didn’t feel the need to spell out what Godly marriage is to be (man and woman joined), then why should patriotic Americans, today, be so concerned with homosexuals being married? Come on, American patriots, lighten-up; just like your Tommy Jefferson, Benji Franklin, Georgie Washington and Tommy Paine did all those years ago! Be free! Spread your wings and fly! “Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die!”

The amazing thing to me is that heterosexual marriage, in this country, has become a joke, so why make a stink about another perversion of the “institution”? Americans laugh at sitcoms where every adult in the show has been, or is in the process of becoming, divorced. Marriage in America, like everything else of God, has become something to scoff at; so why raise a big stink about homosexuals marrying?

After all, aren’t Americans all about “personal freedoms” and “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”? Well, American homosexuals think (erroneously, of course) that marriage will bring them new (and “equal”) life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. How, then, can you true “freedom-ain’t-free” patriots, who are willing to sacrifice your own children “on the alter of freedom”, turn around and deny your fellow Americans, no matter how emotionally, mentally or Spiritually ill they may be, their freedom? Let’s not be hypocritical!

I say, if gays want to be married, then let them! Then they’ll get to suffer along with the 50 to 70% of Americans whose (heterosexual) “marriages” end in divorce, and simply because the Lord was not involved in the process. Plus, these marriages will mean long-term job security for American divorce attorneys: after all, we are still in a bad recession, and the last thing we need are divorce attorneys standing in line at the unemployment office.

On a more somber note, if marriage between a man and woman was taken seriously, and still held to as something sacred, then, perhaps, there wouldn’t be an issue like this to debate. {Why should we hold marriage sacred, when we can’t even hold human life in the womb sacred?} As the “institution of marriage”, over the last century-plus, has been cheapened and mutilated by self-involved (“self-actualized”) and non-committal heterosexual couples, who treat marriage like a ball-point pen (use it until it doesn’t work any longer, and then go get a new one), the door has been opened to this kind of perversion, as well as many others: “unwanted pregnancies”, abortion and mentally ill and angry, violent children (think sexual and physical abuse messes with a child, so does divorce!). The cry from the “religious-right” that “marriage is a sacred institution” falls on deaf ears these days, because marriage, in the U.S. of A., is anything but sacred. Nothing is sacred in the good old U.S. of A., because America has become an “enlightened” nation that has no need of “silly, sentimental superstition”!

“A Deluding Influence” XVI

{I have decided, from time to time, to post certain items that I sense (through my Spirit, hopefully) speak to many of the issues I write on. These will be short snippets (NOT ALWAYS), and I’ve decided to call them, “A Deluding Influence” (2 Thessalonians 2: 11)}

The following articles exhibit, once again, the corrupt and pagan nature of Catholicism. It seems that Pope Benedict XVI is very “double minded”, he speaks out of both sides of his face: the political and the falsely religious:

June 11, 2010

Pope begs forgiveness, promises action on abuse

by Nicole Winfield

The Associated Press

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Addressing the clerical abuse scandal from the heart of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI begged forgiveness Friday from victims and promised to “do everything possible” to protect children at a Mass celebrated by 15,000 priests from around the world.

While symbolic, Benedict’s pledge failed to satisfy victims groups who said promises were useless without a clear-cut action plan to root out pedophile priests, expose the bishops who protected them and change the Vatican policies and culture that allowed abuse to continue.

His comments came during a Mass at St. Peter’s Square marking the Vatican’s Year of the Priest – a year marred by revelations of hundreds of new cases of clerical abuse in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, as well as cover-ups by bishops and evidence of long-standing Vatican inaction. (emphasis added)

via Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

The Modern Hierophant: The Keeper of Mysteries

“…Pope Benedict XVI begged forgiveness Friday from victims and promised to “DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE” to protect children…” Remember the pope’s promise, here, as you read this next article:

June 11, 2010

Pope Benedict rejects calls to end celibacy rule

by Mitchell Landsberg

Los Angeles Times

Reporting from Rome — Standing before more than 10,000 Roman Catholic priests, Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday strongly reaffirmed the Vatican’s commitment to priestly vows of celibacy, cutting off speculation that he might reconsider the issue in light of the church’s sexual abuse scandal.

At an outdoor vigil in St. Peter’s Square that veered between moments of deep reverence and outbursts of enthusiasm more characteristic of a soccer game, the pope told the gathering of priests, believed to be the largest in history, that celibacy “is made possible by the grace of God … who asks us to transcend ourselves.” Celibacy would be a “scandal,” he said, only in “a world in which God is not there.” (emphasis added)

via Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

The Ancient Pagan Hierophant: The Keeper of Mysteries

Yes, the pope promised to “DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE” to stop the abuse of children, everything, that is, except allowing priests to marry: celibacy is the primary cause of rampant homosexuality in the Priesthood, and homosexuality, in the priesthood, has led, I believe, to the abuse of children. As with everything else in Catholicism (EVERYTHING), the priesthood and celibacy have their origins in The Ancient Mysteries, or paganism.

Celibacy, as well as the pope (hierophant), the Vatican, the Eucharist, and the priesthood, is of Satan’s design, not, as the pope claims, by the Lord’s grace:

But while Constantine thus essayed to make the Christian Community respectable in the eyes of the world, and to swell the number of its adherents, he also endeavoured to impart to its Churches and services an external magnificence and splendid scenic effects, which should, not merely rival, but even surpass, the pagan temples and their ceremonies. He gave to the Christian bishops, for conversion into churches, several imposing buildings called Basilicas, which had been used for Royal Courts of Justice, and at the same time was lavish in his gifts of money for the elaborate decoration of the new places of worship, and for the provision of superb vestments for the clergy. And soon the Christian Bishop, exalted on his lofty throne in the apse of the Basilica, clad in costly vestments, surrounded on a lower level by his presbyters, and with a marble alter, adorned with gold and gems, on a still lower level in front of him, had no reason to fear comparison with the Flamen Dialis, or with any other of the great Pagan priests in Rome…

(The Great Prophecies of the Centuries concerning the Church Volume 4: [pages 537-39] G.H. Pember)

And so the abuse, delusions and outright lies of Christendom continue on!

Here are some older posts on the subject of pagan Catholicism:

The True Church of Christ Does Not Exist To “Make The World A Better Place”!

The True Church of Christ Does Not Exist To “Make The World A Better Place”! Part II

“He got Arrested for Being ‘Politically-Incorrect’ on a Friday Night!”

Especially Christ & His Truth!

Before I begin, just let me say that I am not on this earth to preach to or judge anyone. If I were to begin judging others for their sins, then I would have to take care of my own first, and I can’t get that done, since there are just way too many of them! I will, however, and without any hesitation, make judgments about the beliefs, ideologies/philosophies and actions of others, as well as those individuals who have chosen to set themselves up as judges in this world: this includes secular judges and those who claim to have been ordained by God to judge others, Spiritually: the right reverends, popes, pastors, televangelists, etc.

“Do not judge (others) so that you will not be judged. 2“For in the way you judge (others), you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. 3“Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 4“Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye? 5“You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye. (Matthew 7)

“The truth hurts.” There was a time when most everyone understood and accepted what this adage means. There was a time when people, living a perverse and destructive lifestyle, understood and accepted the reality that their lifestyle might, if exposed to the light of day, be shunned by society. There was a time when most folks understood that life isn’t always fair, and that sitting around whining about it was never going to alter that fact. But in today’s retro-grade inverted world, where the “evolved-from-chimpanzees” postmodern/Darwinian feminists, homosexuals and atheist/agnostics rule, all semblances of rational thinking, believing and behaving (normalcy) have quickly begun to disappear, as the following Pew Forum article reveals:

May 04, 2010

Street preacher charged for saying homosexuality a sin

by Al Webb

Religion News Service

LONDON (RNS) A Christian street preacher in Britain will stand trial for telling a passerby — in earshot of a policewoman — that God views homosexuality as a sin.

Police arrested Dale McAlpine, a 42-year-old Baptist, under Britain’s Public Order Act 1986, which forbids “using threatening, abusive or insulting words … tending to and causing harassment, alarm or distress.”

McAlpine told The Daily Telegraph newspaper that he was arrested after a part-time police officer said she heard him reciting a list of “sins” against God, including blasphemy, drunkenness and same-sex relationships.

The preacher denied mentioning homosexuality, but he did concede he had told a passing shopper that it was a sin in the eyes of God. (emphasis added)

via Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

Yes, folks, it’s a tell-it-like-it-ain’t… or-else world out there. It’s a world viewed through postmodern rose-colored glasses (a drug-induced “Through-the Looking Glass” type of vision), where the bizarre is considered the norm and the norm the bizarre: east is west, south is north, up is down, men are women, women are men, and everyone who buys into this grotesque facade is either a genius or hero. Whereas those who have refused to wear, or have, over time, chosen to remove, the postmodern rose-colored glasses are profiled as being “politically-incorrect”, “intolerant”, “racist”, “bigoted”, “sexist”, “homophobic” and “hate mongers”, or some combination thereof.

These postmodern, politically-correct and tolerant “geniuses” and “heroes”, who, by the way, scream the loudest about their rights to free speech and “lifestyle choices”, are the most despotic of all, when it comes to the free speech, thoughts and beliefs of others; in particular those who profess a belief in the One True God and Creator of all things. My very statement about the Father and His Christ, here, makes me, in the eyes of these postmodern bigots, totally “intolerant” of other religious views and thus a “purveyor of hate and hate speech”. Therefore, like this preacher, I must be silenced, because I am ruining the “natural” chances of a postmodern Utopia taking place on earth. Freedom of speech and thought are evidently, now, only for the politically-correct and tolerant few who are destined, in their own minds anyway, to ultimately decide what the best course for humanity and the world is to be: a course, no doubt, directed towards some form of Utopian world, where the postmodern Darwinian/naturalists and atheist/agnostics can rule as they see fit, even if that means doing away with all other ideologies/philosophies, beliefs and the “politically-incorrect” and “intolerant” people who profess them. Orwell had it almost right, except that it would be folks, like himself, who would become the promoters, followers and enforcers of a Godless “Big Brother” culture and world!

This preacher was arrested for merely attempting to speak the truth of the Lord to those he sensed were lost and hurting. Perhaps, this preacher was giving information about God to someone who hadn’t asked for it: institutionalized Christians are notorious for giving answers to questions that have never been asked of them. And this bad habit has been, in my estimation, what has driven and continues to drive most people away from proselytizing Christians and the religious dogma they “preach”. But is this proselytizing a crime? Is this giving of unsolicited information worthy of being accosted, arrested and imprisoned for? Is sharing with someone what is written in the bible truly to be considered a form of “hate speech” today? Is England beginning to take part in the same despotic practices as Islamic and communist nations, where Christians, for decades, have been harassed, arrested, tortured, imprisoned, and even executed (murdered), for merely speaking of the Lord?

Devout Muslims, those who truly practice the faith, detest homosexuality and will put a homosexual to death, if the opportunity presents itself; whereas this Christian preacher was merely stating what the bible says about homosexuality:

…that which is known about God is evident within them (human beings); for God made it evident to them. 20For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse…

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26For that reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing INDECENT ACTS and receiving in their own persons THE DUE PENALTY of their error. (Romans 1)

I can’t wait to hear how this “politically-correct” and “tolerant” informant (an eavesdropping “snitch” with a badge) fairs when trying this same kind of postmodern behavior-modification on card-carrying Islamic radicals; who, by the way, are in the process of taking over London, and the rest of the United Kingdom and Europe. These particular religious zealots aren’t as peace-loving and passive as most Christian preachers. So I hope, for the sake of this Ms. “hear-me-roar” law-enforcer, that she thinks twice before attempting this same kind of cutesy despotic act on Islamic fundamentalists. If she doesn’t, then I hope she has her personal affairs in order, since being a woman, first of all, and then, secondly, trying to arrest a Muslim male for speaking against homosexuality, would, in my estimation, put this little lady’s life in extreme jeopardy: a not-so-postmodern-Utopian jeopardy that could ultimately lead to a REAL-WORLD OF HURT!

Hey, don’t shoot the observer! I’m just trying, like most other folks, today, to be “culturally relative”, a “valuer of diversity”, by respecting a devout Muslim’s right to practice His culture and religion, no matter how heinous and vile the “custom” and “doctrine”. You know what I mean, don’t you? I’m trying my best, here, to be “politically-correct” and “tolerant” of other people’s cultures, since, in this postmodern world, there is no right or wrong, good or bad, sacred or evil anymore. Now, everything is “relative”, unless, that is, a person is professing to have an absolute eternal Truth of God, then its, “Off with their ‘intolerant’ and ‘hate-filled’ heads!”.

Yes, the subject of this article frustrates me, but not because of this preacher’s political “rights” being violated. The subject of this article frustrates me, because English law is now punishing people for loving others enough to speak the Truth to them. This preacher is being hauled into an English court of law for loving someone enough to speak the Lord’s Truth to them. He’s being labeled a purveyor of “hate speech” and a “homophobic” by an English society that has evidently turned its back on the Truth of God: a society that is, now, openly promoting a warped version of life, under the atheistic-pop-culture cover of “cultural relativism”, “tolerance” and “political-correctness”, where homosexuality is considered to be as normal as love between a married man and woman.

Guess what, folks? I can sit anywhere in this world, tonight, and tell anyone who passes by that night is day and day is night. And, if given enough time, wealth and political power, I can probably even enforce this bald-faced lie by making it the law of the land. But this law, no matter how heavily enforced, will never change the fact that day is day and night is night. In the same way, then, a corrupt and perverse law, no matter how effectively it be enforced, can never change the fact that homosexuality is a disease of the mind, heart and body of the person it invades and destroys. You can silence the people, who see and proclaim that the king is totally naked, by accosting, arresting and imprisoning them, but that will not change the fact that the king is totally naked.

If the politically-correct English would be totally honest with themselves, in their relativistic way of “reasoning”, they WOULD NOT promote the idea of homosexuality as “being as normal as heterosexuality”, they would simply, instead, in a true relativistic manner, proclaim that there is no collective “normal this or that” in this world. In other words, a true relativist would see no difference between a man and woman having sex with each other or having sex with other members of the same sex, or with animals and children, for that matter, since, in each case, it would simply be a matter of “personal choice” or “personal preference”, relatively speaking, of course. And this “right” to expect respect, from all others, for one’s own “personal choices or preferences” is the doctrinal basis for the relativist religion: “to each his own” is their mantra. Of course, this is where the relativist comes off looking rather badly, since a postmodern relativist, European or American, would never condone an adult man or woman having sex with an animal or child. Thus true English and American relativists are either lacking in understanding of their own religious doctrine, or they are extremely hypocritical, it’s one or the other.

"It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery."

Now that I’ve written all of this, let me say that I disagree, in at least one respect, with this preacher’s approach to the subject of homosexuality, and that is his attempting to bring the Truth of the Lord to people, affected by this disease, by threatening them with “the due penalty of sin” and “the wrath of God”.

Homosexuality is a sexual sin, according to the bible and God. But the Son of God, the Christ our Lord, died so those who would truly believe on His name might be set free, for all eternity, from the guilt of having broken the Father’s righteous Laws. We, who believe, have been made complete in the eyes of our Father, through the Love and sacrifice of His Son. We, who believe, are truly no longer enslaved to the guilt associated with our sins, which have kept us trapped in a virtual “if this, then that” sin scenario: “If I sinned, then God won’t love me. And if God doesn’t love me, then I might as well continue to sin.” A sin scenario perpetrated by a false and hypocritical religion, which has masqueraded as the Lord’s Truth for the last eighteen hundred years.

Let us, then, with this in mind, break out of these false religious chains that weigh us down, Spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically, and be set free in Christ our Lord and Savior. In the Lord’s reality of Light and Life, we no longer have to hold on to, indignantly and rebelliously, those things of our flesh that we know, deep inside, are destructive to ourselves and others. We have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God, from the best of us to the worst, but our Lord died to cancel out this falling short, this debt to the Father. So let us, then, believe and rest in this Truth and know that He can also deliver us from what enslaves us in this life, here and now.

God didn’t make us to be imperfect people He could never have a relationship with. The fall of man, in the beginning, made us imperfect by separating us, at birth, from our relationship with the Father in heaven. But His Son, the Christ, came, died and was resurrected to reverse this separation, this sense of rejection, once for all. Let us, then, live as we truly are: a chosen people of God free to try and fail and try and fail again and without fear of the Father’s rejection and punishment, now and in the ages to come.

“Men Who Suppress the Truth in Unrighteousness” (Follow-Up)

This is a follow up post to “Men Who Suppress the Truth in Unrighteousness.”

The following Pew Forum article reveals another example of the apostasy happening in the institutional “church” (Christendom).

September 1, 2009

Protestant churches shift slowly toward gay equality

by Wendy Cadge and Laura Olson

The Boston Globe

American religious organizations have rarely been leaders in national movements for gay rights. With few exceptions, they have been opposed or uninvolved. Yet some are slowly changing their views as they grapple with questions about homosexuality in light of public debates about same-sex marriage and increased visibility of gay men and lesbians in American life. Mainline Protestant denominations in particular are slowly, but deliberately, adopting more tolerant stances – leaving conservatives rather than liberals to split off from their churches.

The 4.6 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA is the most recent example, voting last week to allow people in committed same-sex relationships to serve as clergy. Until this vote, gay men and lesbians could be ordained only if they remained celibate. Gay and lesbian people in the ELCA may now be ordained provided they are single or in a “publicly accountable, lifelong, monogamous same-gender relationship,” similar to the requirements for heterosexual clergy. Gay men and lesbians can be clergy, in other words, and have sex in lifelong relationships. While several mainline Protestant churches have supported gay civil rights since the 1970s, they now grant the civil right of equal employment to their gay and lesbian pastors.

The ELCA didn’t make the change lightly. Its recent decision followed a 15 -year process of internal study and reflection. When three Lutheran groups merged to form the ELCA in 1988, two of the three groups viewed homosexuality as “biblically a departure from the heterosexual structure of God’s creation.” National church leaders began studying and considering homosexuality in the early 1990s – and received 20,000 responses to a draft social statement. In 1996, the denomination called for all individuals to be respected regardless of sexuality and in 2001 initiated a churchwide study.

Our research on these education processes – which involved people gathering to read and discuss information about sexuality – revealed differences of opinion about homosexuality in most ELCA congregations. As recently as 2005, national church leaders voted to maintain church policies barring non-celibate gay men and lesbians from ordination. Last week’s decision shows that ATTITUDES and DOCTRINE ARE EVOLVING, particularly because gay and straight church activists worked to keep gay rights on the denomination’s agenda. (emphasis added)

Yes, the ungodly attitudes and doctrines of apostate and/or unregenerate man are “evolving” backwards, or devolving, in an intellectual, emotional, physical and Spiritual sense. Each generation, since the fall of Adam, has become increasingly less than the generation before: a little less physical, mental, emotional, moral and Spiritual than the divine Creator had intended. Man is not progressing, as he blindly and wrongly believes, he is instead, with every successive generation, becoming less than those who have come before him.

Watch the nightly news and see how vile man has become: self obsessed, ruthless, perverse and vicious. Oh yes, man’s worldly (passing away) knowledge and technology grows day by day, but man himself continues to decline and become less than God created him to be, little by little, day by day:

“Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever. “But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the book until the end of time; many will go back and forth, and KNOWLEDGE WILL INCREASE.” (Daniel 12: 3, 4)

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; AVOID SUCH MEN (believers) AS THESE… ALWAYS LEARNING and never able to come to THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH. (2 Timothy 3: 1-5, 7)

The Unregenerate Tail is Wagging the Apostate Religious Dog Again!

This is a fascinating quote:

When three Lutheran groups merged to form the ELCA in 1988, two of the three groups viewed homosexuality as “biblically a departure from the heterosexual structure of God’s creation.”

So, originally, two out of the three apostate entities had viewed homosexuality as a “departure” from heterosexuality, or the way God created man to be. Thus, evidently, the perverse and ungodly minority has, once again, won over the “religious”.

Now we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or a letter as if from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless THE APOSTASY COMES FIRST, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction…

Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end BY THE APPEARANCE OF HIS COMING; that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason GOD WILL SEND UPON THEM A DELUDING INFLUENCE (believers) so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged WHO DID NOT BELIEVE THE TRUTH, but took pleasure in wickedness. (1 Thessalonians 2: 1-3, 8-12)

Let us listen to the Apostle Paul and obey the word of God!

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world (the unregenerate), or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any SO-CALLED BROTHER IF HE IS AN IMMORAL PERSON, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN (believer) FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. (1 Corinthians 5: 9-13)

How much clearer can our Lord be? We must come out from this kind of hypocritical, apostate religiosity, or stay and take the chance of being coerced and destroyed by its fraudulent message and “father”:

“You are of your father (Satan) the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. (John 8: 44)

The entire article is here:

via Religion News: Protestant churches shift slowly toward gay equality.

"Men Who Suppress the Truth in Unrighteousness"

The Apostle Paul stated, and without hesitation,

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of MEN WHO SUPPRESS THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS… (Romans 1: 18)

The apostasy (“strong delusion”) of the institutional “church” (IC) continues on toward its final destiny, as the following Pew Forum article reveals:

August 21, 2009

ELCA validates ‘chaste’ same-sex relationships

by Jeff Strickler

The Minneapolis Star Tribune

One vote. That was the margin Wednesday by which the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America churchwide assembly approved a social statement that, among other things, acknowledges the validity of same-sex relationships that are “chaste, monogamous and lifelong.”

The margin was so close that Bishop Mark Hanson, the ELCA leader who presided over the vote, hesitated before announcing the outcome. Rules required the social statement to pass by a two-thirds vote; the final result was 66.67 percent.

“I thought it was going to be close, but I doubted very much that it would come out at exactly two-thirds,” said the Rev. Peter Strommen, chairman of the task force that drew up the social statement and pastor of Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church in Prior Lake.

Close as it was, the vote bodes well for a proposal to repeal a ban on gay and lesbian ministers from leading churches unless they promise to be celibate. That motion, which is to come up for a vote Friday afternoon, requires only a simple majority to pass. (emphasis added)

The word of God evidently means nothing to this apostate denomination of Christendom. The following scriptures make it perfectly clear the Lord intended marriage (“relationships”) to be between a man and a woman:

The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, AND BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE; and they shall become ONE FLESH. And the man and his wife were both naked and were NOT ASHAMED. (Genesis 2: 22-25)

…‘If there is a MAN WHO LIES WITH A MALE AS THOSE WHO LIE WITH A WOMAN, both of them have committed A DETESTABLE ACT; they shall surely be put to deatH. (Leviticus 20: 13)

For this reason God gave them over to DEGRADING PASSIONS; for their women exchanged THE NATURAL FUNCTION for that which is UNNATURAL, and in the same way also the MEN ABANDONED the NATURAL FUNCTION of the woman and BURNED IN THEIR DESIRE toward one another, MEN WITH MEN committing INDECENT ACTS and RECEIVING IN THEIR OWN PERSONS THE DUE PENALTY OF THEIR ERROR… (Romans 1: 26-27)

What could possibly be the “DUE PENALTY” which these men and women with “DEGRADING PASSIONS RECEIVE IN THEIR OWN PERSON”, beyond physical illness and death? If we can open our Spiritual eyes to see the truth, then we’ll have our Lord’s answer: alienation, isolation, mental/emotional illness and immaturity. We must take off the politically-correct, rose-colored glasses of this Godless, relativistic world-system, and then we should be able to more clearly observe and discern the attitudes and actions exhibited by most (not all) homosexuals: overtly confrontational and PERVERSE actions carried out in a spitefully arrogant way, which forces those who disagree to either turn away or stand against the manipulation and, thus, be labeled a “homophobic”.

{NOTE: In America, “tolerance” of other’s beliefs and opinions, on any issue, is subject to the politically correct minority (postmodern-atheists) who now seem to have complete control (through the liberal media, government and Hollywood brain-washing machine) over “ethics” and “morality”. If a person’s beliefs or opinions fall outside of the postmodern-atheist’s ethical and moral “standards”, then that person is either shunned, labeled (racist, sexist, homophobic), or shouted down. The free and open discussion of ideological differences has evidently become verboten in America!}

PERVERSE: 1. Directed away from what is right or good; perverted.
2. Obstinately persisting in an error or fault; wrongly self-willed or stubborn.

It would seem, from all of the postmodern manipulation and politicking, that homosexuals are no longer satisfied with mere acceptance. Homosexuals now seem to want, beyond mere acceptance, our ENDORSEMENT and HONOR of their “lifestyle” choice.

Homosexuality is a sin before God, because it is unnatural (perverse) and leads not only to illness of the body but also the mind, heart and spirit, as the Apostle Paul states here:

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a DEPRAVED MIND, to do those things which are not proper, BEING FILLED WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, WICKEDNESS, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are GOSSIPS, SLANDERERS, haters of God, INSOLENT, ARROGANT, BOASTFUL, INVENTORS OF EVIL (“Gay Pride”, etc), disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, THEY NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT ALSO GIVE HEARTY APPROVAL TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM. (Romans 8: 28-32)

“THEY NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT ALSO GIVE HEARTY APPROVAL TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM.” Sounds a great deal like the homosexuals and apostate clergy in this article, does it not?

So now, not only does this denomination desire to endorse and honor homosexuality in the world, but it also, as with many other apostate denominations, seeks to condone a homosexual “lifestyle” among its “ministers”:

It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. An overseer, then, MUST BE ABOVE REPROACH, the husband of ONE WIFE, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not addicted to wine or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, FREE FROM THE LOVE OF MONEY. He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, HOW WILL HE TAKE CARE OF THE CHURCH OF GOD?), and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation incurred by the devil. And he must have A GOOD REPUTATION WITH THOSE OUTSIDE THE CHURCH (the unregenerate), so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil. (1 Timothy 3: 1-7)

Does this scripture, in any way, shape or form, describe the “clergy” we see in this or any other denomination today? Not even close, in my estimation! And this Lutheran denomination, as with many others, seeks to totally do away with this God inspired model (“Overseer”) by rebelling against His word, which openly and unashamedly condemns the destructive and perverse SIN of homosexuality: the sinner will not be condemned, unless he or she rejects the truth and grace of our Lord and Savior, in this day of salvation:

And He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up; and as was His custom, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath, and stood up to read. And the book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to Him. And He opened the book and found the place where it was written,

“THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON ME,
BECAUSE HE ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR.
HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM RELEASE TO THE CAPTIVES,
AND RECOVERY OF SIGHT TO THE BLIND,
TO SET FREE THOSE WHO ARE OPPRESSED,
TO PROCLAIM THE FAVORABLE YEAR OF THE LORD.”

(Luke 4: 16-19)

And working together with Him, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain— for He says,

“AT THE ACCEPTABLE TIME I LISTENED TO YOU,
AND ON THE DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU.”
Behold, now is “THE ACCEPTABLE TIME,” behold, now is “THE DAY OF SALVATION”

(2 Corinthians 6: 1, 2)

There is a reason why the Lord declared certain things “unclean” or sinful which goes beyond His allowing us to be tested (Job). The Lord declared, for instance, that the Hebrews not eat certain animal and insect life, because He knew they couldn’t prepare certain animals (shell fish, etc) properly and would thus become ill or even die (“unclean”). In the same sense, the Lord knew sexual immorality (sin) could lead to diseases (syphilis, HIV-AIDS, gonorrhea, etc), beyond those of our soul, mind and spirit, which would make people ill or even lead to death. The Lord created everything, including us, so Who better to instruct on the issues of living?

But the Lord’s main reason for considering sexual immorality such a destructive sin is still this, it is a sin unlike all others, in that it affects people, negatively, on the inside and out, as the Apostle Paul states here:

<em>Flee immorality. Every other sin that a man commits is OUTSIDE THE BODY, but THE IMMORAL MAN SINS AGAINST HIS OWN BODY. Or do you not know that YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS IN YOU, whom you have from God, and that YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN? For YOU HAVE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A PRICE: therefore glorify God in your body. (1 Corinthians 6: 18-20)

The clergy in this apostate denomination are suppressing the truth of our Lord in unrighteousness, and there will be Spiritual ramifications for this type of overt rebellion against God.

Many will probably claim I’m being “legalistic” here. They will say, “The law was fulfilled in Christ and therefore, no longer applies to us.” I would strongly disagree with anyone who claims the law no longer applies to our lives, and then point them to these scriptures:

“Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I DID NOT COME TO ABOLISH BUT TO FULFILL. “For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. “Whoever then ANNULS one of the least of these commandments, and TEACHES others to do the same, shall be called LEAST in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called GREAT in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5: 17-19)

“IF YOU KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. (John 15: 10)

Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ IS BORN OF GOD, and whoever loves the Father loves the child born of Him. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and observe His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments; and His commandments are not burdensome. For whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that has overcome the world—OUR FAITH. (1 John 5: 1-4)

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

“If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. (John 14: 12-15)

It is scripturally correct to say that we are not (Spiritually) justified by works, but of faith alone that no man should boast: we are shielded by our Lord’s grace, and not under the law. But as our Lord points out, the law (God’s righteousness) still stands, and it will, through our Lord’s sacrifice, accomplish all that was intended by the Father’s will. If we truly love our Lord and Savior, then we should desire to have everything that is of Him, and therefore, we must obey His (TWO) RIGHTEOUS COMMANDMENTS which fulfill the entirety of the law:

One of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, “What commandment is the foremost of all?” Jesus answered, “The foremost is… THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD; AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH.’ “The second is this, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12: 28-31)

If we truly love the Lord and are seeking His kingdom to come, then we’ll also love and seek to keep His righteous truth in the word, which tells us, through the Spirit, that homosexuality is a destructive sin against man and God.

Sometimes we have to stand against the sin of someone we care for, in order to truly love and serve them. Therefore, if we truly love a homosexual brother or sister (believer), whom the Lord has brought into our life, then we should never take part in enabling them to continue in this painful and ungodly “lifestyle” choice. Those of us who are of the Christ, and equipped with His Truth, should stand against this lie of the flesh and its master, the evil one, even if that means losing a brother, sister or close friend. Their eternal life is much more important than our relationship with them and this temporal life.

Martin Luther

Martin Luther would be outraged at this apostate religious entity which carries his name, but not his love of the Lord and His truth.

For those of us still taking part in this type of apostate religiosity, and troubled by these Spiritually irreconcilable issues, I would encourage you to seek the Lord, through prayer and His word, and then try to sense His leading. Perhaps it is time to come out from this religious confusion and into the Light of our Lord and Savior?

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the LIGHT of men. The LIGHT shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. (John 1: 1-5)

The entire article is here:

via Religion News: ELCA validates ‘chaste’ same-sex relationships.

For more evidence of this apostate confusion and subsequent scriptural error, here is a follow up article on the Lutheran “church” and homosexuality:

Religion News: Congregations deal with gay ruling by Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

"But Wanting to Have Their Ears Tickled…"

"Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling." (Proverbs 16: 18)

Paul, the Apostle to the gentiles, exhorted and warned Timothy:

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to HAVE THEIR EARS TICKLED, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4: 1-4)

The following Pew Forum article is just another example of the great falling away, or apostasy, of the institutional “church:” Christendom.

June 30, 2009

Church-state divide looms for Episcopalians on gay marriage

by Daniel Burke

Religion News Service

Episcopal bishops from the six states that have legalized same-sex marriage are requesting permission to adapt their church’s venerable prayer book for use at same-sex weddings.

The proposal presents a new challenge to the Episcopal Church as it seeks to balance respect for gay rights with fellow Anglicans’

widespread condemnation of homosexuality.

The request from bishops in Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont will be debated at the Episcopal Church’s upcoming July 8-17 General Convention in Anaheim, Calif.

Even though the Episcopal Church has taken a liberal stand on gay issues, including installing an openly gay bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, its rules and liturgy continue to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

The bishops’ proposed resolution asks for permission to offer a “generous and flexible response” to same-sex couples seeking to be wed in the six states that have legalized same-sex civil marriage.

“Right now the state’s definition of marriage and the church’s definition of marriage are in conflict,” said Bishop Stephen Lane of Maine, where gay marriage became legal in May. “We’re asking for some flexibility to adapt the prayer book so a blessing could be made for a same-sex couple.” (emphasis added)

Here are the four quotes in this article that really trouble me, Spiritually!

Apostate Quote, #1:

“Even though the Episcopal Church has taken a liberal stand on gay issues… its rules and liturgy continue to define marriage as between a man and a woman.”

Note this: “Its rules and liturgy continue to define…” This is a religious denomination that supposedly represents the Christ, and yet it isn’t the Christ’s Word, nor the Spirit of God, that defines what Episcopalians believe. It is, instead, the “rules and liturgy” of the Episcopal Church that “define” what this congregation can and will believe.

Anyone should be able to discern, in this quote, that Episcopalian “rules and liturgy” are not worth the paper they are written on. If a portion of this denomination has “taken a liberal stand on gay issues,” then its conservative “rules and liturgy,” on this issue, have been nullified. If Episcopalians had been “defined” by the word of God, as they should have been, then there would have been no “liberal stand on gay issues” to begin with!

These Episcopalian “rules and liturgy,” as with other denomination’s dogma, are of man’s own making, and they come from his need for control of everything, including his “belief” in God. Institutional “church” (Christendom) rules, liturgies and doctrines, as opposed to the Lord and His Word, have become the source of spiritual direction and worship for many “church” goers. I hear many Sunday-morning “warriors” proclaiming, “What we (fill in the denomination: Episcopalians, etc) believe is…,” as opposed to, “We, as seekers of the Lord and His will, believe what the word of God, through His Spirit, reveals to us.” The word of God warns us of man’s religious rules, liturgies and doctrines, and those who create and enforce them:

If anyone advocates a different doctrine and does not agree with sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the doctrine conforming to godliness, he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions, and constant friction between men of depraved mind and deprived of the truth, who suppose that GODLINESS IS A MEANS OF GAIN. (1 Timothy 6: 3-5)

“Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. (Matthew 7: 15)

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be FALSE TEACHERS among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. (2 Peter 2: 1)

“Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. “Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15: 13-14)

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4: 1-4)

Apostate Quote, #2:

“We’re asking for some flexibility to adapt THE PRAYER BOOK SO A BLESSING COULD BE MADE for a same-sex couple.”

This is one of the most Spiritually ignorant and yet, revealing statements I have heard from an apostate “minister” of Christendom!

What is a “prayer book”? I thought prayer, as the word of God points out, was communing with God, through His Spirit, on a deeply personal level:

“And when you are praying, do not use meaningless repetition as the Gentiles do, for they suppose that they will be heard for their many words. “So do not be like them; for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. (Matthew 6: 7-9)

In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; (Romans 8: 26)

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Let your gentle spirit be known to all men. The Lord is near. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4: 4-7)

Do heavenly blessings flow from our Lord’s love, grace and righteousness? Or do heavenly blessings flow through the constant manipulations (“adapting”) of a man-inspired “prayer book”?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, (Ephesians 1: 3)

Apostate Quote #3:

“The bishops’ proposed resolution asks for permission to offer a “generous and flexible response” to same-sex couples seeking to be wed…”

Apostasy!

This quote, in my opinion, is the very definition of Christendom’s “seeker sensitive” proselytizing technique, which keeps the “church” buildings operating and the clergy from having to find real jobs.

In order to pay for its enormous operating expenses, the institutional “church” {IC} must put aside the word of God and its truth. The IC knows people don’t want to hear that God’s Son had to come and die for their sins. The IC knows the carnal, or liberal, “church” goer hates to be convicted of sin (wrong doing), and he or she never wants to hear anything like,

“One thing you lack: go and sell all your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me,” or “He who has found his life will lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake will find it,” or “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick.”

Here then, according to my experience, is the IC’s true (“politically correct” and “seeker sensitive”) position on speaking and teaching the word of God. And this friend-to-the-world position, in reality, is just another way of taking care of business:

“People need to be built up, not torn down. They need to be reassured that, no matter what they do, or what they love and seek most, God loves and accepts them as they are. People don’t want to be reminded of the bad things they’ve done, they just want to concentrate on the few really “good” things they’ve managed to accomplish, and there’s nothing wrong with that. They want a well deserved pat on the back, and we’re there to give ‘em what they want! After all, people have scraped and clawed, connived and cheated all week, and the last thing they need to experience, in ‘church,’ on Sunday morning, is hearing about their distaste for the truth of God, and their worldly ways of going about life.”

In other words, people don’t want to hear the awful truth about themselves, their family, their friends, their business associates, this nation, or the world. People just want to HAVE THEIR EARS TICKLED, so they can go about their temporal lives, Monday through Saturday, as they please. As long as they “keep the sabbath holy” (which, by the way, was Law to the Hebrew only), then they have paid their dues to God. They also want the Lord’s blessings in all ways, but with no investment in Him, His way, truth, or life: “Just bless us, Lord, so we have an easy time of it, and we get everything we want in this life.” How convenient! How totally American!

Apostate Quote #4:

“Right now the state’s definition of marriage and the church’s definition of marriage are in conflict…”

The man-made, and corrupted, “state’s” definition of marriage should never be in line with the physical and Spiritual joining of a man and woman, which is found and defined in the word of God:

Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said,

“This is now bone of my bones,
And flesh of my flesh;
She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”

For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed. (Genesis 2: 18-25)

With all of this in mind then, why should I, or any other seeker of the Lord, be surprised by articles like this one? We must face the truth! The IC, in order to be “politically correct” and “seeker sensitive,” is going to pass over the word of God, and thus maintain its friend to the world status It has no choice. The IC, in its apostate state, must turn its back on the Lord and His truth, in order to survive. So, if the IC isn’t going to address its pew sitter’s desperate need for Christ, in a scriptural, truthful way, then it certainly isn’t going to stand against the ungodly and worldly trends such as “gay marriage”.

I hope I’m not the only believer who can see the utter Spiritual confusion of this apostate denomination of Christendom. This is not the church (Body of Christ) that Paul speaks of, nor the one exhibited in the Book of Acts. This type of “church” is the result of seventeen hundred years of Spiritual adultery with this world system and its leader, Satan.

I cannot, for the life of me, imagine how anyone, who is truly seeking the way, truth and life of our Lord, could possibly remain in this apostate form of religiosity. I encourage anyone who is experiencing this kind of Spiritual confusion and error, in their “church,” or “fellowship,” to come out from that darkness and start living in the light and life, in abundance, of our Lord!

The entire article can be found here:

via Religion News: Church-state divide looms for Episcopalians on gay marriage.

"What Does the Word of God (Through Our Spirit) Tell Us?"

When was the last time you heard any believer say, while discussing worldly issues, “What does the word of God tell us?”

It seems that most believers, who are caught up in the institutional church (Christendom), have either turned a deaf ear to, or are ignorant of, the word of God, and, therefore, the Lord’s will. The institutional church’s falling away (apostasy) from the way, truth and Life of our Lord is coming to fruition. This falling away was prophesied in scriptures:

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. (2 Timothy 4: 1-5)

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men (believers: “church” goers) will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; AVOID SUCH MEN AS THESE. For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth… (2 Timothy 3: 1-7)

Let no one in any way deceive you, for it (the “rapture” of the ecclesia: the “called out ones”) will not come unless the apostasy (falling away) comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, ( 2 Thessalonians 2: 3)

“To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God, says this:

‘I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. ‘So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. ‘Because you say, “I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see. ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me. ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’” (Revelation 3: 14-22)

Believers should not be confused about the issues of this temporal world, since the word of God explains much of what is happening, who’s to blame and how we are to respond. The following Pew Forum article shows distinctly that many “church” goers, and their apostate denominations, have no clue as to what the word of God says, nor what the Lord’s will really is. Because if they did have a spiritual clue, then this article would be pointless, since the “church” would not be involved in (supporting or hiding) any form of sexual immorality: whether it be lusting (in the heart and mind) for another person, adultery, pedophilia or homosexuality! According to the Lord, there is no difference between these sexually immoral categories, since they all deal with sin in the human body: the “temple of God.”

June 19, 2009

Raising kids in a same-sex union

by Lisa Miller

Newsweek

First comes love, then comes marriage. Then come all the thorny issues that arise with raising kids in a religious tradition when that religious tradition doesn’t see you as married.

When another state legalizes gay marriage, as New Hampshire did recently, civil-rights activists cheer. But practicalities are another matter, and same-sex couples–especially those who want to raise their children with religion–may find that the laws intended to protect them may also create new domestic challenges previously unforeseen.

That two men or two women would want to marry and raise children in a church that views their love as sinful would be, in the eyes of some, puzzling at best. (I’m focusing on the Roman Catholic tradition here, but any orthodox religion presents similar trials.) Many people feel that religion is essential to them, however, and that family life would be emptier without it.

Gregory Maguire, author of the novel Wicked, has had all three of his children baptized in the Catholic Church. He recently watched proudly as his youngest child had her first holy communion. “As the daughter of two dads, she sat in the first pew in her beautiful, white, borrowed gown,” Maguire told me. “And then she sang, ‘I’ve got that joy, joy, joy, down in my heart’.” (emphasis added)

So, we have people (homosexuals), caught up in perversion and spiritual confusion, who not only want to “marry” but also raise their children in the “church.” Unlike much of the rest of Christendom, let’s see what the word of God TELLS US on the issues of homosexuality, an unrepentant believer (in this case, a homosexual) remaining active in the Body of Christ, and the false teachers and prophets (of Christendom); who not only allow but condone this ungodly, perverse and destructive behavior.

1) Homosexuality:

First, from God’s perspective, under the old covenant:

‘If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them. (Leviticus 20: 13)

Now, under the grace of God, through His Son’s sacrifice for all of humanity and creation:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. 25 For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1: 18-32)

The main difference between the old covenant and the new, of course, is, homosexuals can seek the Lord, be healed and without fear of being stoned to death. The Christ died for every sin that was ever committed by mankind. All the homosexual (or any other sinner) has to do, today, is turn from their sin (repent) and ask the Lord for deliverance and forgiveness: and, if asked in truth and spirit, it is granted, and “their faith will be reckoned to them as His righteousness.”

{Of course, this will require the person to humble themselves before God and lose their self centered, or self actualized, or self esteemed nature. The love of self is how man fell from grace in the first place. And this same love of self is what keeps many from the grace and love of God now! In Satan’s world system, love of self is all that matters, and it keeps his worshipers in a constant state of childish self seeking: “What about me?” “That’s unfair!” “I know my rights!” Satan has been an expert at this, from the beginning. And he even uses so-called “men of God,” like Sharpton, Jackson and Robertson, to keep believers in spiritual immaturity and bondage to self. Apostate men who have their minds and hearts set on the concerns of man rather than the concerns of God.}

2) How to deal with an unrepentant believer in the Body of Christ:

It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife (incest). You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present. In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus, I have decided to deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of his flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. (1 Corinthians 5: 1-5)

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5: 6-9)

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people; I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters, for then you would have to go out of the world. But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one. For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. REMOVE THE WICKED MAN FROM AMONG YOURSELVES. (1 Corinthians 5: 9-13)

This scripture, as with all others, needs no explanation or help from me or anyone else! It is pretty cut and dry: “Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.”

3) False Teachers & Prophets:

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4: 1)

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment; and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; and if He condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter; and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men (for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds), then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desires and despise authority.

Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you, having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children; forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, (2 Peter 2: 1-15)

Today, there are many false teachers and prophets spewing their ungodly, hypocritical and self-serving lies. Many of these are recognized leaders in the denominations of Christendom! They all have the benefit of mass media (a gift to them from Satan’s world system), which allows them to spread their apostate disease among millions world wide.

This False Teacher (Lesbian) Believes "Abortion is a Blessing"

This article claims that many of these “gay-marriage” couples will have a difficult time finding a “church.” But I say this article is far too pessimistic: “gays,” male or female, are now “preaching” from the pulpits and, therefore, have the ears, minds and hearts of the politically correct and “seeker sensitive” pew sitters (the liberal or “carnal” Christian). So it won’t be too much longer until Christendom (by means of its false teachers) denies the above scriptures, totally, and proclaims homosexuality and heterosexuality as equal in the eyes of God.

Most of Christendom (“churches,” or denominations), because of its friendship with the world, will allow homosexuals not only to continue in the sin that ravages them and others, but will also welcome them to “worship” in its “churches.” As opposed to standing on the truth of God, through scripture and the leading of the spirit, the apostate “church” will simply ignore the word of God and serve the creature and its ungodly and destructive worldly desires.

Thus Christendom will leave these children of the Lord to remain lost in their perverse sexual desires and subsequent transgressions. Spiritually speaking, this is like watching as a relative walks in front of an oncoming car and never even lifting a finger to stop them. And then proclaiming, “After all, it’s their life, and they should know where they’re going. Who am I to question their direction? It’s all relative! It’s their life and choice! Right?”

This, my friend, is not an example of the way, truth and life of our Lord. This is not showing the love of Christ for people who are lost and suffering: homosexuals are lost and suffering, as are all others held hostage by destructive, life-consuming sin (sexual or otherwise)! This is totally contrary to everything that the Lord exhorts and commands us to do and be. This is religiosity, “churchianity,” plain and simple. This is Christendom, which is of the world, not the true “Body of Christ,” the true church.

The word of God tells us everything (as it relates to eternal-importance and the Lord’s will) that has happened and will happen. So what is happening now, with this issue and all others, should not be a real surprise to any of us who are truly, through scriptures and the Spirit, seeking the Lord. If we sense the ungodliness of these issues in Christendom, then what should we believe the Spirit is telling us:

“Come out from among them…?” (2 Corinthians 6: 17)

The entire article can be found here:

via Religion News: Raising kids in a same-sex union.

An American, Relativistic ("Pride") Reason for Every Second, Minute, Hour, Day and Month of the Year?

Ever notice how America has every month set aside for some kind of cultural/gender/ideology/history, pride-filled political purpose. We have Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Womens History Month and now LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender) Pride Month.

{But where’s the Anglo-Saxon Ancestry Month, or the Working Class American Month, or the Heterosexual (Caucasian) Male Pride Month? I guess those kind of months would be politically incorrect and “very, very uncool, dude!” I don’t care, but I was just curious, since this society seems to be so concerned with other cultures being observed and respected? Oh, but wait! I forgot! It’s Hollywood and the politically correct crew (the Godless and hedonistic left) who decide what can be observed or even “tolerated:” the folks I mentioned above are the “totally uncool,” politically incorrect (PI) and therefore, disenfranchised, in the eyes of the politically correct (PC), tolerant and “cool” beautiful people!}

Here is a Religion Clause article that is just one of a multitude of examples on this issue.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Obama Issues LGBT Pride Month Proclamation

Baptist Press reports that many evangelicals are unhappy that President Barack Obama on Monday issued a Proclamation (full text) proclaiming June 2009 as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.” The proclamation notes that this year is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion, a clash with New York police that is generally seen as the start of the gay rights movement. The Proclamation says in part that: “LGBT Americans have made, and continue to make, great and lasting contributions that continue to strengthen the fabric of American society.” It lists a number of pro-LGBT initiatives undertaken by the Administration. Yesterday’s Windy City Times says that both sides are unhappy with the Proclamation. Gay rights activists says the Administration has not done enough to further equal rights. This is not the first time a President has issued this sort of Proclamation. Bill Clinton issued gay pride proclamations in 1999 and 2000. (emphasis added)

“Gay rights activists says the Administration has not done enough to further equal rights.” Now there’s the surprise quote of the day: “We want more! We want more! We want more! And we’ll have a continuous tantrum until we get it!”

American society, overall, is driven and will ultimately be swept away and destroyed by its own entitlement oriented ideology and undeserved pride (“Pride goes before the fall”), as has happened with all other power and greed-hungry, self-serving and corrupted societies (nations) throughout history: Babylon, Egypt (Pharaohs) Greece and Rome, just to name a few.

American society, over the past century, has become “self-actualized, baby!” This new and supposedly better American society no longer lets minuscule and outdated notions, such as God, His Son, His Word and absolute truth (nor human history or experience), get in the way of its needs and desires. Oh no, not this society. American society knows there are no absolutes, because “everything is relative, dude!” Culturally relativistic/atheistic American society has become so “enlightened,” as with the rest of this God hating world, that it now knows there is nothing bad or good, better or worse, right or wrong, especially when it comes to viewing those of other cultures or chosen “lifestyles.” Yet, thanks to its ability to make-everything-up-as-it-goes, American society clings, in self-righteous (hypocritical) arrogance, to its “ethics” and “morality,” which is supposedly still “evolving” and, to me, anyway, very much “mutating.”

Here is an example of this new “mutating,” Godless and degenerate “morality:” a woman can have her baby murdered in the womb, by an abortionist “physician,” but this same woman and “physician” will cry for blood when they hear of a child being molested. What are some of their relativistic, feminist and atheistic excuses, when confronted with their blatant murder and hypocrisy: “Life doesn’t begin until actual birth!” or “It’s legal to abort a fetus!” or “It’s my body and my right! I can do as I please.” and “A molester is sick and should die!”

{In our modern and relativistic (and aesthetically dead) America, there’s no difference in quality between Michelangelo’s sculpture of David and a wooden image of a bird found in Africa. High art in America has been brought so low and dehumanized (devoid of God) that a crucifix in a jar filled with urine, or racist and vulgar “rap” music and really lousy rock & roll are more revered than the paintings of the great masters, or the monumental symphonies of the Classical and Romantic periods! Is it any wonder that almost everything we see or hear, artistically, is mediocre or worse?}

“Enlightened,” relativistic and atheistic/agnostic Americans have all but done away with outdated and “uncool” phrases like “we should have” or “we could have,” or “that’s a really bad piece of art,” or “homosexuality is a mental and spiritual illness that is destructive to everyone involved, and therefore, wrong!”

As the Apostle Paul said,

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.

Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them. (Romans 1: 18-32)

The entire article can be found here:

via Religion Clause: Obama Issues LGBT Pride Month Proclamation.

Priesthood Celibacy & Homosexuality: Is the Result Pedophilia?

As this verse from Genesis confirms, the Lord knew it was not good for a man to be alone. So the Lord created woman to be his “completer” or “help-mate:” wife.

The Apostle Paul was a confirmed bachelor, and he wished all men were as he. But if all men were as Paul, then there would be none of us!

Here is what Paul said to the Corinthians on this subject:

Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman (celibacy). But because of immoralities, each man is to have his own wife, and each woman is to have her own husband. The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife, and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. (1 Corinthians 7: 1-4)

Paul goes on to say,

But this I say by way of concession, not of command. Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am (celibate). However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.
But I say to the unmarried and to widows that it is good for them if they remain even as I. But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn with passion. (1 Corinthians 7: 6-9)

Here is a Pew Forum article on the subject of homosexuality, pedophilia and Catholicism’s (scripturally incorrect) doctrine of celibacy for priests and nuns.

May 19, 2009

The church’s short memory

by Jacqueline Murray

The Globe and Mail

There was no doubt a collective sigh of relief at the Vatican last week when Rev. Alberto Cutié publicly confirmed his continuing support for clerical celibacy. This affirmation came on the heels of revelations that the popular Miami priest was thinking of leaving the church for a woman he loves after a magazine ran pictures of the couple embracing.

But no matter how earnest Father Cutié’s support for celibacy, and how unswerving the Vatican’s adherence to this supposedly ancient doctrine, clerical celibacy continues to be a hot-button issue for the Roman Catholic Church.

For many of the general public, fed up with scandal and the predatory sexual activity of men whose libidos seem unnaturally repressed, the solution is to abolish mandatory celibacy and permit priests to marry. For the Vatican, the incontrovertible justification for celibacy is the weight of history: Priests have always been celibate; surely, then, it is divinely ordained. But this view of celibacy is not as straightforward as the Catholic hierarchy would have us believe.

For example, married men ordained to the priesthood in one of the Orthodox churches, or within the Anglican communion, can and do transfer into the Catholic fold, administering the same sacraments as their Catholic counterparts but going home to wives, children and marital beds. (emphasis added)

The last paragraph of this article is a moot point, since Christendom (Catholicism, Protestantism etc) ignores what it chooses to ignore: whether it be human wisdom (if there is such a thing) or the wisdom and word of God.

We can see this disregard for the Lord’s leading, through the word of God, in this quote,

“For the Vatican, the incontrovertible justification for celibacy is the weight of history: Priests have always been celibate; surely, then, it is divinely ordained.”

In other words, the Vatican is saying, “We have been doing this for centuries, and therefore, it is a religious tradition that is surely ordained by God.” The “weight of history” evidently overrules the word of God, in Christendom’s mind and reality. I don’t believe this is the Lord’s perspective, however, especially when a religious tradition leads to sin and the harm of others!

Jesus told the Pharisees, on the subject of their religious tradition,

“You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition. “For Moses said, ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER’; and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER, IS TO BE PUT TO DEATH’; but you say, ‘If a man says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is to say, given to God),’ you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother; thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.” (Mark 7: 9-13)

The Apostle Paul backed up this truth with this statement to the Colossians,

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. {Colossians 2: 8}

These scriptures, along with ones I quoted earlier, are evidence enough that the Lord never intended for men and women to go through life celibate. Therefore, what have we seen as a result of this blatant disregard, by Catholicism, of the Lord’s way and will for man and woman?

For those postmodern relativists or even believers with a relativist leaning (“liberal Christians”), the following article might be troubling to you, since it may show a correlation between homosexuality in the priesthood and pedophilia.

1) The survey, conducted last year, found that 55 percent of priests say such a (homosexual) subculture “clearly” or “probably” exists in their diocese or religious institute. Forty-one percent of priests said a homosexual subculture clearly or probably existed in the seminaries they attended.

The younger the priest, the more likely he was to identify a clear gay subculture in the seminary. Forty-five percent of priests age 25 to 35 said a subculture clearly existed in seminary, compared with only 8 percent of priests over age 56, and 3 percent of those over 66.

“Our conclusion, based on these data and on our focus groups, is that homosexual subcultures increased in visibility, and probably also in numbers, in recent decades,” said Jacqueline Wenger, a doctoral student and research assistant who co-authored the study with Catholic University of America colleague Dean Hoge. (emphasis added)

For those of you who would disagree with my premise, would you please explain to me why “gay” priests (not a few, but many), surrounded by other “gay” priests (in a cloistered environment), would need to turn to children to satisfy their emotional and sexual needs and desires?

Could it be that homosexuality is, in reality, a perversion and simply leads to more perversion and harm? This is, of course, not to imply that all pedophiles are “gay,” as we know. But perversion, “sexual addiction,” is no different than any other addiction, in that the addicted will always be looking for a “better fix!”

In conclusion, I believe priests and nuns should be allowed to marry. In fact, I believe there shouldn’t even be priests and nuns, but that’s another topic entirely.

The scriptural fact is, the Lord created woman for man and man for woman, since “He saw that it was not good” for them to be alone. With this scripture in mind then, how can celibacy be in the Lord’s will: in particular, for those who claim to be His main representatives on earth?

Both articles can be found here:

via Religion News: The church’s short memory.

1) via Half of Catholic clergy sees a gay presence in priesthood.