Damned Right - Its An Abomination
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If the Pastor doesn’t believe in God’s word then he is an unbeliever. No unbeliever will enter into heaven. The Pastor belongs to the church of Satan.
And it's not a marriage
The word "abomination" is not commonly used in either the Old, or the New Testament.
I am under the belief that the Lord God Almighty, has very strong opinions on the matter; and of the multitude of sins that I have committed in my life, there a few I steer well clear of. This is but one of them.
I mean, He only nuked 2 cities over the topic.
Nothing to see here.
And flooded the planet
Seems that something irked God
So true.
My wife and I searched different local churches for 5 years. We've exhausted all within 30 miles. The only thing we said we would not accept, hands down, was a church that focused as much on tithings as they did the Bible. 1 church had a 1.5 hr long service. 1hr of it was the church band playing music, 10 min of follow up on last week's financials and reminded to pay tithings, which followed that sermon.
Now, we self educate through reading passages out loud to each other, and having discussion time to come to our own conclusions. No church has ever lifted me like this has. I don't need to sing hymnals or progressive Christian rock to send praises to the Lord. And I give my 10% back, just ask the community I work with. It's not money to me, but it is to them since they don't have to spend it.
People have been "coming to their own conclusions" for centuries and continue to get it wrong. Now some have been given from on high by the Pope which were also wrong, such as moving the Sabbath to Sunday and saying the Crucifixion happened on "Good Friday" just to negate Jesus' own statement as to how we would know he was the true Messiah.
Nice to give a detailed example of just one church, which happens to be different from any church I've ever attended or even heard of. All churches I've been to in over 60 years have services that average an hour, though some individual services may run over, if the preacher has a lot of points to cover in his sermon. The only real mention of tithes and offerings is when the offering plate is passed.
Tithing to the church with actual money is required by the Bible. Your paying in kind sounds like some local girls who told me they didn't have to "pay" rent for their apartment.
Reading and discussion are what goes on in Sunday school. You should try an ordinary Southern Baptist church, regardless of what you may think of the upper management in the convention. The churches are pretty independent of the convention, but are similar in beliefs and order of service.
Forgive me, being in southern VA....guess I've never seen a real southern Baptist church. /sarcasm. Seriously 25 churches in 5 years, not 1 was more about the gospel than their tithings intake. Your experience may be different and that is very possible, but I'm just sharing my struggle to find a "real" church. I want to converse with others on it all, but I'm not driving 1.5 hrs away to do that.
Cross the border into NC. I find what you say hard to believe, based on my 60+ years of experience, compared to your paltry 5 years.
As someone who typically doesn't enjoy long music times, I get why people get frustrated by this, but I've had many friends who are worship leaders and musicians and there is a spiritual warfare element to this time.
It's to bring the whole congregation into a place to receive. You or I may be ready after 5 minutes if we're walking closely with the Lord, but highly distracted, frustrated or hard-hearted people in the congregation may need more time to soften and become "present" and open.
It's also a primary aspect of our relationship with God to give back thanks and praise and worship to Him for what He has done. It's as much of a "tithe" as finances or acts of service.
Try an LDS Church. You'll like that one.
Fren... We have more pressing concerns at the moment that are far more important than ideological differences that in the grand scheme come down to personal choices between people and deities they worship.
This is not the time for division so please, put down the sword or focus on the domestic terrorist organization known as the FBI. They are an actual threat to liberty right now.
The Satanic cabal is trying to ruin our religious institutions and indoctrinate and groom our children. That's a pretty fucking pressing concern. We don't need posts about the same damn topic all up and down the board. We can focus on many things at once.
The three people in that meme were likely groomed as children. This is what you end up with.
The Satanic cabal owns your religious institutions
Ding. Mother. Fucking. Ding.
The religious institutions are in cahoots with the cabal. Christ never established a religion. Religion is entirely a product of man. You're making assumptions and spreading division based entirely off of cabal programming...
If God has such strong opinions on the matter, why didn't Jesus say anything about it?
Jesus was speaking to everyone. The closest we have recorded of Him speaking on sexual immorality also has Him saying His famous "let He who is without sin" quote.
Because He didn't say anything (that was recorded) about everything. He didn't say anything about abortion.
But gay and lesbian sex is mentioned in the New Testament as something wrong. So God does actually have a strong rule (not opinion) about queers.
"Better a man have a stone tied around his neck and be cast into the ocean, than any harm come to these little ones"
I don't remember lesbian sex being mentioned in the New Testament. In Paul's "you shall not suffer a..." letter, he was writing in Greek, and he specifically used a word that didn't mean any form of homosexuality, but specifically the unfortunately common practice of older men in a position of educational authority having sexual relationships with their students (who were by definition male).
I really hope it was Paul and not Peter, or I'll be quite embarrassed
Romans 1:26-27
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.