A Proper response to Homosexuality and the Church

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Scatcatpdx

A bit of a storm rose over Steve Chalke, a prominent pundit ( I am banishing the word evangelical due to loss of meaning)   advocates Christians  need to show  more tolerance and encourage  Gay monogamous  same sex relationships. Mr. Chalek engages in typical biblical revisionism to justify ignoring scriptural authority and need to repent of this sin and receive the Forgiveness of sin that come though Christ.

Mr.  Chalke doing a great disserve to homosexuals by loving and tolerate them in continual bondage and eventually to hell, rather proclaim freedom from the slavery sin and forgiven by the proclamation of the gospel. It is  like Mr. Chalke seeing a drown man; instead of throwing him a life ring, he  says peace to you I tolerate and love you.

This got me think what should be the right way the church homosexuals at their door. I can say there are two wrong ways  first being bludgeoning them with the law without the gospel , like Westboro Baptist Church but on the same side is  loving and tolerating them  with law light.

The right question and way I am inspired by Bishop Lawrence’s Address to the Special Convention as expanded by Chris Rosebrough of Fighting for the Faith:

“But I must say this again and again. This has never been about who is welcome or not welcome in our church. It’s about what we shall tell them about Jesus Christ, his mercy, his grace and his truth – it is about , what we shall tell them when they come and what we shall share when we go out.”

The question is not will we allow  homosexuals culture  in our church but what will we tell them; will it comfort  in bondage to sin and to damnation or  will we tell them the Gospel, about while  they  their sin  (like all of us) Christ died for them the righteous for the   unrighteous. Roams 6 1-2 is a good cross reference on sin. How cans Mr. Calke even call for an understanding of Homosexuality  and neglect proclamation of repentance and forgiveness of sin though Christ.  

 

 

AS I side note what writing this reply I thought of the following verses as a reply to Christians.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

English Standard Version (ESV)

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

No I have to confess many in evangelic churches; the quote Verses 9 and 10 but leave out the key verse 11.  That was us yet we are washed, sanctified and justified by Christ how can we even  talk of Compromise.  

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Financial Cliff Doublespeak

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Scatcatpdx

This post is a reply to Jack Roberts’ piece Political parties are playing a dangerous game with the fiscal cliff.  He article reflect the manipulation I see over media treatment  of the impasse. The both side should come together and pass Obama’s plan. I have to say both Conservative and Liberal commentators are guilty.

In my study of fascism, it is not loss on me the manipulation of langue by the elite to control the masses (see C.S Lewis’s book The Abolition of Man and Orwell’s 1984  ) I see  words thrown around like, Finical Cliff, compromise and cooperation or lack thereof not being using for any objective meaning but as to manipulate the masses to one ideological  agenda over the other.

I see only two objective and moral outcomes: we let the current expiration   of   Bush’s tax cuts for all Americans and drastic but mostly necessary spending cuts or renew tax cuts for everybody regardless of wealth. By letting the plan to go into effect both rich and poor will be forced to share in the burden; no more just tax the other rich guy. If one wants government to spend more on your social entitlements, then it is fair and moral the poor and middle class share in the burden. I have became more concerned we are shifting from a representative democracy to  a dictatorship of the majority where the majority votes to force and infringe on the right of the minority; this is liken to two wolves and one lamb voting what and who is for dinner.     Both are more desirable that the democrats plan of raising taxes and   turning 1% of our population to scapegoats and weakening our defense.  Rising taxes on the rich will have very little effect on deficit spending while pushing more middle class to poverty and dependency on the state at cost of our freedoms and dignity as part being the middle class.  What really being taxed is capital and investment that can be used for business and business means job creation.

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A Unilateral Declaration of Armistice on War on Christmas

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Scatcatpdx

Each Year I groan when some well mean but misguided Christian or non believer brings up the so called war on Christmas.  So today I bring:

 A Unilateral Declaration  of Armistice  on War on Christmas

Whereas the unregenerate does not know Christ nor give him glory because he or is dead in trespasses and sin. (Romans 1:18-32)

Therefore Whereas it is not the nature or duty of the unregenerate to proclaim Christ apart from Christ bring the sinner into  himself  though repentance and forgiveness of sin that come though  the preaching of the Gospel , and that  by faith as a gift from God.

Whereas is the Job of the Church and Christian to proclaim Christ and him crucified.

I Richard do declare Unilateral Declaration of Armistice on War on Christmas.

  1.  I call for an immediate cessation of all hostilities, protest, boycotts and monitoring of all stores and business who do not acknowledge Christmas.
    1.  this does not apply to Churches who claim to be Christian but deny Christ
  2.  It is not the duty of Walmart , Target or any other store  nor it is to duty of any  Christian  to demand  employees and management to  acknowledge the season by saying Merry Christmas.
  3. As per 1 Corinthians 5: 9-13 we shall not prohibit ourselves doing business with any secular business that does not support Christmas.
  4. Therefore it is the job of the Christian, by the Grace of God working us, to proclaim Christ and wish employees and management merry Christmas.
  5. Whereas we should be grateful if one can display a nativity scene in a public place, but it is not the job of a secular state to proclaim Christ; this is the job the Church. Therefore we should work, as in the case of Santa Monica, to move such display to Private property and remind those like the Freedom form Religion our rights to freely express or religion granted by the First Amendment and property rights.
  6. If a secular school prohibit or change Christmas to “Holiday or Winter Celebration” the Christian should question why are they turning over the education of their children to a secular intuition rather than protesting the change. It is the job of the Christian parent and Church to raise and properly catechize children into the faith not by and trusting a secular education system.
  7. We shall not as Christian fret about consumerism during the holiday season. Instead we should be ready to share the good news of the Gospel this most Holy season.

Singed by Richard 2 Dec 2012

 

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Go Daddy is a Bad Daddy

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Scatcatpdx

I got a thanksgiving present from Pay Pal: my request and dispute with Go Daddy  was approve and my money was refunded to my pay pal account.

My Go Daddy miss adventure started in November when I got an automatic renewal noticed for three years. I recall turning off Automatic for my personal domain the last time I renewed. To add injury to injury, Go Daddy went back to and used a three year purchase in 2005 for the justification to charge me for a three year renewal;  The  original purchase was for a now defunct business web page and not my personal domain.. I always paid by the year for my personal domain.

I called support and demand the resending of the charge and allow me just a one year renewal, the Go Daddy representative   told me he cannot rescind the renewal and authorize a refund of the charge. The rep told me I had to cancel the domain account first. Well being the hardcore capitalist, I took my business elsewhere and transferred my domain to namescheap.com. Once the transfer was complete I called up Paypal to cancel my account and request a refund my payment, now the rep say they cannot  find the transaction so they cannot refund my payment. Well I can play hard ball too,  so I issue a dispute for unauthorized charge against Go Daddy in Paypal.  I won.

The other lesson is if you all use Paypal for automatic payment do go in to the My money link on Paypal from time to time and cancel payment agreement if no longer need. If I did this before, it would had block automatic payment by Go Daddy.  Over all Go Daddy is very bad company.  I cannot in good faith recommend anybody to do business with them. Go Daddy cannot be trusted with any automatic payments May Go Daddy days be short and let another buy them out.

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