I do not condemn as sin things which may not be sinful. As all the explicit condemnations of homosexuality in the Bible involve making another man to be like a woman (which is a reference to Rape) I fail to condemn the "sin" which is so strangely important to you because it might not be sin at all, or at least no more sinful than any heterosexual relationship you might come across.
I do condemn rape of all kinds, of course. But you have heard all of this from me before.
It is strange that you have so abjectly failed to learn the lesson of the prodigal, despite having actually lived it, in condemning people whose hearts you do not know. Don't you get it that at no point does it fall to the older brother to judge the heart of the younger? That it is hard, from a literal standpoint, to see the point at which the younger son is judged by anyone other than himself?
The very fact that you would jump into this thread with thoughts of judgment and hellfire is damning of YOU, Jeo. Especially hin how your thoughts went immediately to making sure that the parameters of who is in and who is out are rigidly set. Which isn't love.
You throw the word love around but you have never shown that you know what it means. This may be just due to the limited nature of our interaction, but the concept itself always seems to escape you, especially in how it relates to grace.
To follow your return to an earlier point, I do always talk about the love and forgiveness of Christ at my funerals. He is the source of my good news, after all. The message tends towards the generic in cases like these, as I am not their confessor. But it is a message of love and the forgiveness of sin.
I do condemn rape of all kinds, of course. But you have heard all of this from me before.
It is strange that you have so abjectly failed to learn the lesson of the prodigal, despite having actually lived it, in condemning people whose hearts you do not know. Don't you get it that at no point does it fall to the older brother to judge the heart of the younger? That it is hard, from a literal standpoint, to see the point at which the younger son is judged by anyone other than himself?
The very fact that you would jump into this thread with thoughts of judgment and hellfire is damning of YOU, Jeo. Especially hin how your thoughts went immediately to making sure that the parameters of who is in and who is out are rigidly set. Which isn't love.
You throw the word love around but you have never shown that you know what it means. This may be just due to the limited nature of our interaction, but the concept itself always seems to escape you, especially in how it relates to grace.
To follow your return to an earlier point, I do always talk about the love and forgiveness of Christ at my funerals. He is the source of my good news, after all. The message tends towards the generic in cases like these, as I am not their confessor. But it is a message of love and the forgiveness of sin.
Eschew Verbosity
One of the harder parts of my job...
08/11/2009 09:03:06 PM
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That is tough man. I am confident though you are the right person to help them through this. *NM*
08/11/2009 10:07:13 PM
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Re: One of the harder parts of my job...
08/11/2009 11:35:01 PM
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So I have some questions for you....
09/11/2009 10:05:19 PM
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Have I ever told you that you are confusing as hell?
10/11/2009 03:46:20 PM
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More interestingly....
10/11/2009 05:57:23 PM
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Do you think Christ would "present the salvation message" or do you think he would just live it?
10/11/2009 06:21:30 PM
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Funny....I remember Christ both living His message, as well as preaching
10/11/2009 07:16:12 PM
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It was entirely clear what you advocated Danny do at the funeral.
11/11/2009 03:02:56 AM
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Yes, I would.
10/11/2009 06:37:35 PM
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As I said to everynametaken
10/11/2009 07:32:21 PM
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Have fun with your strawman.
10/11/2009 07:42:37 PM
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*haha* (and yes, I am laughing at you)
10/11/2009 08:55:24 PM
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Ah, so we are doing this again.
11/11/2009 03:45:45 AM
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First of all - the spelling is Heresy.
10/11/2009 09:05:32 PM
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In regards to your questions, I had a hard time understanding exactly what you were getting at.
11/11/2009 06:09:23 PM
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