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Date Posted: 20:08:37 02/13/12 Mon
Author: George
Subject: Re: A Charade for Michael Kinnamon?
In reply to: Lois 's message, "A Charade for Michael Kinnamon?" on 19:53:37 02/13/12 Mon

> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/OnlineResources....rough
>Christ.pdf">http://www.cofchrist.org/OnlineResources...
>.roughChrist.pdf
>
>Healthy Relationships Witness of Jesus Christ
>BY RON HARMON, Council of Twelve Apostles Page 6
>
>"It is imperative to understand that when you are
>truly bap�tized into Christ you become part of a new
>creation. By taking on the life and mind of Christ,
>you increasingly view your�selves and others from a
>changed perspective. Former ways of defining people by
>economic status, social class, sex, gender, or
>ethnicity no longer are primary. Through the gospel of
>Christ a new community of tolerance, reconciliation,
>unity in diversity, and love is being born as a
>visible sign of the coming reign of God." (I think
>this is a quote from that bogus Section 164)
>
>Unity in Diversity
>BY DON H. COMPIER, Independence, Missouri, USA Page 13
>
>Some question long-held traditions, such as rebaptism
>for admission to church membership. Various cultures
>hold di�vergent views on the role of women in church.
>Members feel varying degrees of comfort about
>discussions of human sexual�ity. While some cultures
>now give same-sex and heterosexual couples equal
>rights, others vehemently oppose what they con�sider
>sinful cohabitation.
>
>"�Unity in diversity� is a good definition of
>community. God�s own love in creating a world that is
>not God suggests that to grow in charity means
>maturing in our capacity to work for the well-being of
>those different from us. After all, Jesus asked us to
>pray even for our enemies."
>----------------
>
>Sorry. Wrong. The above is contrary to the teachings
>of Jesus Christ.
>
>Book of Mormon 3 Nephi Chapter 8
>
>Jesus Christ speaking
>
>60 And now behold, this is the commandment which I
>give unto you, that ye shall not suffer any one
>knowingly, to partake of my flesh and blood
>unworthily, when ye shall minister it, for whoso
>eateth and drinketh my flesh and blood unworthily,
>eateth and drinketh damnation to his soul;
>61 Therefore if ye know that a man is unworthy to eat
>and drink of my flesh and blood, ye shall forbid him;
>nevertheless ye shall not cast him out from among you,
>but ye shall minister unto him, and shall pray for him
>unto the Father, in my name,
>62 And if it so be that he repenteth, and is baptized
>in my name, then shall ye receive him, and shall
>minister unto him of my flesh and blood;
>63 But if he repent not, he shall not be numbered
>among my people, that he may not destroy my people,
>for behold I know my sheep, and they are numbered;
>64 Nevertheless ye shall not cast him out of your
>synagogues, or your places of worship, for unto such
>shall ye continue to minister;
>65 For ye know not but what they will return and
>repent, and come unto me with full purpose of heart,
>and I shall heal them, and ye shall be the means of
>bringing salvation unto them.
>----------------
>
>This is why the Community of Christ had to throw
>Joseph Smith Jr. and the Book of Mormon out the
>window. This is why they had to convince the National
>Council of Churches that Joseph Smith III is the
>founder of the Community of Christ. I think that
>Joseph Smith III is looking at us from Paradise and is
>simply appalled.
>
>Now that I think about it it was an actor portraying
>Joseph Smith III handing over the gavel of the church
>to Steve Veazey! John Horner portrayed Joseph Smith
>III.
>
>And whoa! Also now that I think of it, this must have
>been a little show for Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon of
>the National Council of Churches. I mean, after all,
>shouldn�t it have been Grant McMurray handing the
>gavel over? Oops, but he resigned, seemingly in
>disgrace.
>
>If the real Joseph Smith III had believed that
>"nothing in this world is unclean and nothing is
>wrong" he would have gone to Utah, as he was invited,
>and taken reigns of an institution which was
>practicing polygamy.
>-------------
>
>Submitted by Lois

I have to agree with you, Lois.

All attempts by homophiliacs to quote scripture to justify and rationalize the practice of homosexuality turn Christianity into a joke.

It is perfectly normal for a man and a woman to sleep together out of wedlock, but it is a sin. If they subsequently get married, even according to the evil and oppressive Law of Moses, that erases the sin and normalizes the relationship. However, it is not normal for two men to want to sleep together, or two women to sleep together; thus there is no provision for setting the sexual relationship right in God's eyes.

Nowhere in the scriptures does it say that two men having carnal relations with each other are committing sin, but that the sin goes away if they make a commitment to each other. All they can do is make a committment to become partners in sin.

This is not a "cultural" thing. This is something that is wired into us. There are things that women will not do unless heavily drugged, or hypnotised, or both. But those exploiting them drug them and/or hypnotise them, or induce them to do so by offering considerations that are desperately needed. Then the liberal elite, for some reason, thinks that if these things are physically done, then they are normal.

I think that it was the Marquis de Sade who said that the only unnatural act (or sin) is one that is impossible to commit, because nature makes it impossible to accomplish. More and more, the Community of Christ gives reason to believe that it has adopted this belief and made it its own. The implication of most of what I read from the CofC seems to be that if God didn't want men to have sex with each other, he would have made them incapable of doing so. And then, of course, since God has not made adultery, or thievery, or murder, or coveting, or anything else like that impossible to do, all these things, by extension, are normalized as well. From reading the Asia News, I learned today that in India, abortion is often referred to as "foeticide." And, of course, it isn't impossible to kill a baby, either. People do it all the time, with varying degrees of success at escaping penalties.

George

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