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Date Posted: 12:36:39 06/30/12 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: The Lie Promoted by the Community of Christ
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Re: The Lie Promoted by the Community of Christ" on 10:07:30 06/30/12 Sat

>>I read a post today by a member of the Community of
>>Christ priesthood. I was going to identify him as a
>>"radical homosexual activist in the Community of
>>Christ priesthood," but I realized that this was a
>>redundancy.
>>
>>Everything this guy says is exactly taken from the
>>arguments cooked up by the radical homosexuals who
>>have done the following:
>>
>>1. Recognized that Christianity is the sole foundation
>>for morality and the standard of socially acceptable
>>behavior.
>>
>>2. Decided to destroy Christianty from within by
>>introducing into it specious arguments in favor of the
>>practices of homosexuality, and against the plain
>>teachings of the Biblical text and of the historic
>>Christian church. They expect to use membership in
>>the Christian ministry of various denominations as as
>>authority to push their deception on Christians.
>>
>>The only defense against this, as the early Reformers
>>discovered against the ravages of the medieval Roman
>>Catholic Church, was to insist on the plain teachings
>>of the scripture against the vaunted authority of
>>criminal, ignorant and self-serving clergy, who used
>>their ecclesiastical authority not to save souls, but
>>to pad their own bank accounts, and make life cushy
>>for themselves, their friends, and their relatives.
>>
>>The only difference in this conflict is the year in
>>which it is happening, and the magnitude of the
>>heresies being pushed under cover of ecclesiastical
>>authority.
>>
>>George
>
>Right, their stupid contention that Sodom and Gomorrah
>was destroyed because of inhospitality!!! Jesus was
>the one who told his disciples how to behave in the
>case of inhospitality. He told his disciples to shake
>the dust off their feet. He didn't tell them to send
>fire and brimstone onto those who were inhospitable.
>Most c-not-of-c members, and priesthood, have no idea
>of what the scriptures say. I'm pretty sure they only
>read from a bulletin the verses that are chosen for
>them. The biggest clue to this is that, like sheep,
>they all inaccurately refer to the same verses over
>and over.
>
>Lois

Lois, the entire crux of the matter rests upon the liberalist's contention that it was an ancient Semitic custom to wash a stranger's feet and offer him tea and crumpets, and also some benzocaine-laced oil before forcibly sodomizing him. Presumably this hospitality would include having a surgeon on hand to stitch the angels back up and stop the hemorrhaging the same way the medical staff in prisons does for inmates from time to time. Had the inhabitants of the cities of the plain properly welcomed the angels before they raped them, everything would have been just fine.

But no historical or archaeological literature are cited for the protocols for homosexual rape. The liberal merely assumes that they exist, otherwise, he would be forced to accept the literal reading of the text as it is, and he refuses to believe that any Christian religious text condemns homsexual practices.

The earliest obvious example of this sort of circular reasoning in the U.S. was when the Supreme Court announced that it was charged by the Constitution with interpreting that document. When faced with the claim that there was no explicit statement therein ordering this provision, the Supreme Court said that according to its interpretation, that is what the Constitution says.

That is why I say that the liberals have become more like the LDS church than ever. The LDS justify polygamy by saying that the scriptures are not writings selected because of the universality of their teachings, but that scripture is tailor made by each society for its own needs. That is how they get around the thunderous condemnation of polygamy in the Book of Mormon. The Community of Christ, and other post-Christian denominations, while teaching that the scriptures were compiled specifically because of the universality of their teachings, always attack any part of these universally true scriptures that they disagree with, and say that these passages were included by mistake.

The case of the CofC in denouncing the teaching of the scriptures regarding homosexuality s particularly bad, because the founder of the CofC edited out of the Bible all the things that God said didn't belong there, and he left in all the passages condemning homosexuality, but added absolutely none approving of it. If we must suppose, as the liberals do, that the prophet were wrong about this, we are forced also to suppose he had been wrong when he founded the CofC in the first place, or when he instituted the First Presidency and hierarchy. After all these insitutions whose power is wielded by the liberals with a vengeance were created in supposed harmony with the same revealed will of God that opened Joseph Smith, Jr's eyes to God's will regarding homosexuality.

A homosexuality is perfectly free to practice homosexuality. Nothing in the New Testament instructs Christians to kill homosexuals. It only instructs Christians not to accept homosexuality as Christian behavior and that no one can be accepted into the church, or be allowed to remain as a member of the church, who practices homosexual acts. A problem only comes in when homosexuals want to be homosexuals and Christians at the same time. Anyone who understands that an AC appliance shouldn't be plugged into an electric grid supplying DC power should be able to figure this out. There is no call for all DC power to be destroyed in favor of AC, nor is there a call for all AC power to be destroyed in favor of DC. We are just told not to plug them in together. Homosexuality does not plug into Christianity.

Pretty simple. But the scriptures say, "I have made all things simple, but they have made many devices."

George

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