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1 | Why the spotlight on gays? | Prov 6:16 | Hank | 142428 | ||
Tim, if this discussion can use another "vote," then here's mine, cast alongside yours and in agreement with it. That the world is in the mess it's in can be traced to failures of the first-century church is an idea that I don't buy either. True enough, the corporate church had its responsibilities then and has them still, but this does not mean that the individual was absolved then nor is he now from accountability to God for his deeds and choices. The idea of the article under discussion strikes me as being a thinly veiled effort at buck passing and theological double-talk. I see it as being as unconvincing and invalid as the argument that the root cause of homosexuality is biological -- the famous, elusive, and unproved theory of the defective gene. This is just another in a long line of ongoing rationalizations and buck-passing attempts that began when Adam and Eve in Eden tried in vain to shift the responsibility for their disobedience to someone else instead of facing the incontrovertible reality that they themselves were the ones who got themselves in hot water by choosing the wrong path. --Hank | ||||||
2 | Why the spotlight on gays? | Prov 6:16 | DocTrinsograce | 142469 | ||
Hi, Hank... I didn't see anything in the article that tried to absolve any sinner from their personal responsibility for sin. Yes, the folks who wrote that article are very strongly covenantal in their perspective. But they are strong believers in personal accountability. (Just look at their confessions of faith.) As Christians we have fought slavery, murders, injustice, inequities, suffering, and lack the world over. We carry the truth -- the very "oracles of God." Who else could even have half a chance at doing the right thing to correct the wrongs of the world. Moslems? Atheists? Socialists? Scientists? What I see the article doing is encouraging us as believers -- the only ones who actually have the truth -- to ask in what ways have we either made things worse or made things better. Are we to go off and live in communes away from the world? Are we to just not get involved? If we are involved are we doing enough? Only each individual can answer these things from his own conscience. Even if we disagree with the tenants of these men, both major and minor, how can we not pause to consider the questions they pose? I may be entirely wrong. But new ways of thinking about things -- even if we disagree -- may stir us to greater degrees of self examination under the leading of the Holy Spirit. If there is no sin, then praise Him for His grace. If we have fallen short, may He cleanse us and lead us on to greater obedience. In Him, Doc |
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