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Comment on Morality & Ethics at the War College by STELASTAR

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:40:26 +0000

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Comment on Morality & Ethics at the War College by Прелестник

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:09:56 +0000

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Comment on The “Gay” Study Bible: What’s Next? by abey

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:26:01 +0000

Why did GOD make both male & female. A babe will answer to this truthfully, but not an learned person like Dr Anne . Truth cannot be overcome with compassion. All of Christ’s words are not compassionate,when it come’s to sin. If Dr. Anne has children & if they do a wrong will she go about telling them that there is nothing wrong in it, so keep doing it. If everything in this world is right we don’t need Christ or the Bible, so why do they bring about their own Bibles unless & otherwise to corrupt truth. Truth does burn & it is better to bear this “burnt” for one’s own sake. For it will be impossible for impurity to withstand the Pure & Holy presence of GOD, when it comes to that stage.

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:35:37 +0000

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Comment on The “Gay” Study Bible: What’s Next? by Sharri

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:30:21 +0000

Evil is marketed in various ways through people who want to keep from repenting of their sin by the prince of this world to make their sin seem okay or at least tolerable and want everybody else to tolerate their sin. How is their sin any different than when Eve was deceived in the garden? As humans with a sin nature we have been deceived ever since. Sin and corruption is disguised as freedom, choice and rights. A choice instead of murdering a baby, gay rights instead of sexual immorality and so on…..
As far as Dr. Nyland’s work…… Anybody can have a degree as a greek scholar and have no concept of what it means to have a relationship with Jesus Christ nor allow the Holy Spirit to work through them for such a work as she has done. Only God knows the condition of her heart but any Christian who reads the word knows that any sexual relations outside of marriage of a man and a woman is a sin. As far as Dr. Nyland being a Greek scholar, Paul mentions in the bible of the philosophers of that age who had such wisdom but knew nothing of spiritual things.
Jeremiah 9:23-24 says “Thus saith the LORD, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.”
The Lord executes lovingkindness which is what God wants us to do toward all people regardless of their sin. I love all sinners but am not going to promote a bible that is geared towards Gay, Lesbian, Bi, or Transexuals. I have not read this bible but Dr. William McDonald from the University of New England quotes, “Dr Nyland’s close examination of the source materials shows beyond a doubt that there is no textual basis in the Bible for the exclusion of same sex relations”.
I’m not going to agree with a homosexual bible anymore than I would agree with or promote a bible for murderers that changes the text to show that there is no textual basis in the Bible for the exclusion of killing.
All sinners are saved by repenting which means turning away from their sins, asking forgiveness for all sin in their lives and accepting Christ as their Savior.
Some gays expect all people to tolerate their sin and try to turn things around so that it looks like we Christians don’t love and accept them. I love and accept them as I love and accept any person without bias or prejudice. What I don’t tolerate is their blatant rejection of the truth of God’s word and having them try to ram their deception down my throat as if I have to tolerate sin. Does any gay person see how that is taking my choice to believe what I want away?
The Lord is going to exercise judgment and He alone will judge. I judge no person, but I also know that the Lord exercises righteousness. The word of God says in Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled”.
If a person hungers and thirsts for righteousness they are hungering and thirsting after the Word–Jesus who is Truth. There is only one truly righteous Human Being, only one Person in God’s image, and that is Jesus Christ. Compared with Him, all of us—the best of us; the most righteous of us—are wicked. Only God’s Nature is always perfectly righteous. Paul is correct in quoting “there is none righteous, no not one”. God’s plan is not to correct us by any set of laws. God is forming new righteous creations by creating Christ in them—the eternal law of God inscribed eternally in the mind and heart. God’s salvation goes so far beyond the moral behavior of the most righteous human who ever lived that no comparison is possible.
What shall we conclude then? Are we any better? Not at all! We have already made the charge that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under sin. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” Romans 3:9-12 Paul’s purpose in speaking like this was to prove that God considers all people to be sinners. He was emphasizing to the Jews that even though they had the Law of Moses and were seeking to obey it, they yet were sinners and must come to Christ for forgiveness and eternal life. We do always err in our heart and part of God’s purpose for man is that we live uprightly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God allowing the Holy Spirit to give us guidance and revelation of the Word becoming more and more like Christ.
Paul always showed that apart from righteous conduct we shall never inherit the Kingdom of God; we shall reap destruction. The Kingdom of God is and forever shall be, first, righteousness. Then the peace that comes from righteousness. Then the joy that is impossible apart from righteousness and peace. God has to feel upset because of the unrighteousness being practiced in the Christian churches and in the world. God is demanding that people behave righteously. Because we are not, our world is entering a period of physical and moral horrors with a skewed meaning of righteousness.
Of course when you make the break with what politically correct people or the so called scholars of our day have to say and you seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and you speak about biblical truth you are labeled as self-righteous. For instance, pro-lifers are “self-righteous” according to abortion supporters. Tobacco opponents are “self-righteous” according to smokers, opponents of gay marriage are “self-righteous” according to supporters of gay rights.
The only thing preventing us from achieving righteous living is the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life; tempations we all face being a member of a fallen race. Any sin as stated in the bible is sin including but not limited to homosexuality instead of being something a person is born with. Let’s name sin for what it is. That’s like saying a person is just born with the tendency to rape or steal or commit adultery, or worship idols. So we just accept that this is the way they are and they can join together for rape rights, thief rights, or adulterers rights and have a large movement and change the bible for each group of sinners. And then we are forced to tolerate their sin because as Christians we are supposed to love them…… Of course we love them but we want them to repent of their sin and accept Jesus as their Savior. When we are saved by grace we are justified and are made righteous in God’s eyes. But as we go through the sanctification process and begin to have that intimate relationship with Jesus Christ we are new creations; old things have passed away and we no longer want to conform to the things of this world. Praise God we have an advocate who intercedes to God on our behalf. We have the promise of I Corinthians 10:13 “no tempation has overtaken us except such as is common to man; but God is faithful who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.” Amen!
Feeling the urge to engage in homosexual behavior is no different than my temptation of wanting to spend money on ebay. You may say what is wrong with spending money on ebay? Anything that takes my mind off of my Savior Jesus Christ and puts my mind on the things of this world in excess, in this case the lust of the eyes is a sin. For some people it is gambling, alcohol, drugs, adultery, stealing, food, or whatever the sin or addiction. Does it say in the bible that getting something on ebay is a sin? Textually no! Those exact words are not there. When I indulge in my fleshly desires to the point I spend money and want more and my lust gives birth to sin then I’m thinking only of gratifying self. When I look at the bible verse that talks about the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life; pretty much anything that takes us into sin and away from God is summed up in those three tactics of the enemy. Our five senses; taste, touch, smell, hearing, and seeing, all report to the carnal mind – which is the enemy of God. These senses are what Satan uses to tempt us! The lust of the flesh includes tasting, touching, smelling, and hearing. The lust of the eyes is seeing. The pride of life is thinking you are exceptional because of who you are, what you have, what you know, or what you look like.
If we look at the entire context of 1 John 2:15-16 it says, “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world”.
Those who are living in habitual sin and those who either do not hear God’s word or want to justify their sinful behavior are “doing the deeds of their father the devil, and the lusts of their fathers they will do for he was a murderer from the beginning and abides not in the truth because there is no truth in him” John 8: 44
When satan succeeds in deceiving a sinner that their sin is okay, in essence the person is blind to the truth of God and thinks everybody should tolerate their sin. Is it possible for any of us to convince another human being that sin is not sin? Of course! It has been going on since the sin of Adam and Eve in the garden. Is it possible for any of us to convince God that our sin is not sin? No!
John 8:45-46 “And because I tell you the truth, ye believe Me not. Which of you convinceth Me of sin? And if I say the truth, ye believe Me not.”
I pray that any person who has been deceived by the enemy will hear these words of Jesus and the Truth will set them free.

Comment on The “Gay” Study Bible: What’s Next? by James Pearson

Sun, 31 May 2009 04:19:46 +0000

I must disagree with your characterization of Dr. Nyland’s work. Her work on this new translation was not “exegetical gymnastics” or “greek acrobatics,” she is a noted greek scholar; further, with the advances in understanding the greek language, any attempt to retranslate the New Testiment in to the best possible form should be welcomed, not condemned. In this piece you constantly drudge up a strawman to knock back down each time with out evidence that her translation is incorrect in any way.

Comment on Blasphemy Challenge by Matt

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:37:21 +0000

Yes! That’s such a dangerous belief some have, that saying the wrong words makes you unforgivable. Basically, if you’re worried about having committed the unpardonable sin, that proof that you indeed have NOT.

Comment on Morality & Ethics at the War College by Matt

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:33:05 +0000

Yeah man, I forgot what a clear picture Jesus gives of this concept in John 15.

Only as a new creation… (2 Cor. 5:17)

Like C.S. Lewis said (roughly), God is not in the business of making bad people good, He’s in the business of making dead people alive.

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