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In addition I believe that the commandment to not judge others sins means we are not to just them against our righteousness. I heard a preacher once that I respect say something I tend to agree with, and that is it is only acceptable, and in fact correct for us to judge others sins against the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. Christ was without sin.
Being accepting of anything that is scripturally wrong is certainly not a good practice. It's not okay to have open pedophiles in your church. It doesn't mean you can't love them enough to help them to confess their sins and repent, but even then you don't just let them run a Sunday school class or tell everyone in church how they've embraced a pedo lifestyle. Sin is sin, indeed, and even though we all struggle with it, it doesn't mean we get a free pass.
I contemplated what you mean by "open" pedophiles. What I came up with after considering this from a few different angles is that you are using the word "open" to mean "known", known pedophiles. In my mind, the nuance between an open pedophile, and a know pedophile, for the sake of this argument, is the difference between "identifies" and "Identified.
In the context of your comment, in my view an open pedophile would be someone who says "I am sexually attracted to, or derives sexual gratification from fantasies, or acts involving a prepubescent child."
Open Pedophile exist more in the now, the present, in my view than does a Know Pedophile, and a known pedophile could be more of subjectively defined that could open pedophile.
Are you sure it would be okay with you to have someone in the church who openly admits to being sexually attracted children, or openly declares that they derive sexual gratification by fantasizing about acts with a child?
I have to go out and do somethings now, but I wanted to say more. Will try and finish up later.
Huge TL;DR alert here friend. But I did read it.
I get your point, that open p's would probably be asked to leave every church. I do feel they could find forgiveness and redemption with Jesus Christ, but agree that someone who is openly so would not be allowed to be so in most churches. I was thinking more-so consenting homosexuality but coding it as P because this isn't directly a theological discussion board and we universally agree P isn't okay.
Back when I lived up in in North Florida, there was a mental health facility near me. The residents of this facility were there for different reasons. Most of the residents were their because of demonstrable mental health issues like schizophrenia. None of them were violent mental cases. They just could not function in a non-managed care environment. They were not criminals, nor had they been assigned to this facility by the courts.
But some, a very few of the residents did make there way into this facility via the court system, and because of confidentially rules like HIPPA, I had no way of knowing what that reason might be.
Three of the individuals, two men about my own age, and one young 18+ boy, I started taking them to Sunday school and church with me. I felt confident that neither of the three were a risk to members of the church, but still I never left them alone, if I ever needed to do anything like go to the restroom, I would ask another church member to watch them. They were never unsupervised.
One day a couple of deacons of the church told me that they had a meeting and determine that bringing the guys from the mental facility to church represented an unacceptable liability to the church. Specifically they mentioned that the churches insurance policy my not cover any incident related to a person deemed mentally incompetent that knowingly was allowed to attend.
I could hardly believe their words to me.
By the smiles on their faces, and the tears in their eyes at hearing the word of God, I knew that God was speaking to their hearts. All three of them at different times came down the isle, made a public profession of their faith, and were baptized. I saw more than one member with tears in their eyes because they saw the love of Christ working in the hearts of these broken men, and they instead of coming to me, explaining the potential issues, and seeking an acceptable way to mitigate any small risk, they more or less said, "we don't want them here any longer." This kind of broke my heart. I was forced to abide by their decision, but i did scold them for the way they handled this, and it did affect my entire outlook to some degree on the priorities of what we call "the church" that facility that is made of bricks where insurance policies seem to weight who is worthy to hear the word of god within its walls and who is not.