Comments on: When is a Christian Not a Christian? http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/ A gay Christian moving the forbidden from the footnotes. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Matt Algren http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-3692 Matt Algren Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:49:58 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-3692 wwjd, I apologize. In a recent site-wide design update, I accidentally left out the link to this blog's <a href="http://blog.mattalgren.com/comment-tips/" rel="nofollow">comment rules</a>, which should be on every post. I have corrected the error above.<br><br>As your comments break those rules and additionally fail to address the subject of the post, I have deleted your later comment. As a courtesy for my error, I am retaining the comment I am responding to for a limited time.<br><br>Cheers from the US! wwjd, I apologize. In a recent site-wide design update, I accidentally left out the link to this blog's comment rules, which should be on every post. I have corrected the error above.

As your comments break those rules and additionally fail to address the subject of the post, I have deleted your later comment. As a courtesy for my error, I am retaining the comment I am responding to for a limited time.

Cheers from the US!

]]> By: Matt Algren http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-4030 Matt Algren Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:49:00 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-4030 wwjd, I apologize. In a recent site-wide design update, I accidentally left out the link to this blog's <a href="http://blog.mattalgren.com/comment-tips/">comment rules</a>, which should be on every post. I have corrected the error above. As your comments break those rules and additionally fail to address the subject of the post, I have deleted your later comment. As a courtesy for my error, I am retaining the comment I am responding to for a limited time. Cheers from the US! wwjd, I apologize. In a recent site-wide design update, I accidentally left out the link to this blog’s comment rules, which should be on every post. I have corrected the error above.

As your comments break those rules and additionally fail to address the subject of the post, I have deleted your later comment. As a courtesy for my error, I am retaining the comment I am responding to for a limited time.

Cheers from the US!

]]> By: wwjd http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-3691 wwjd Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:24:15 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-3691 What does your Bible say in 1 Corinthians 6.9-10? What does your Bible say in 1 Corinthians 6.9-10?

]]> By: wwjd http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-4031 wwjd Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:39:00 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-4031 As Barry Dean said properly: "How should we think about this? There is a simple illustration I can think of. I am unhappy about having to obey the traffic laws, especially when I am in a hurry to go somewhere. It would make me very happy if I could ignore those laws in those times that are not convenient to me. But the traffic laws have a reason, and that reason is to keep us all safe while we are driving. God has given us laws as well. Whether we like them or not they do exist. Unlike state laws, these laws from God are not negotiable or subject to legislative changes. I believe that some of His laws exist to keep us safe as well. Regardless of the reason they exist, God, the Creator, demands that we obey them. These laws have been revealed to us in his scriptures. As believers in Christ we can choose to obey them or not. But please don’t fool yourself into believing there will not be consequences or an accounting for the foolish decision to ignore them." As Barry Dean said properly: “How should we think about this? There is a simple illustration I can think of. I am unhappy about having to obey the traffic laws, especially when I am in a hurry to go somewhere. It would make me very happy if I could ignore those laws in those times that are not convenient to me. But the traffic laws have a reason, and that reason is to keep us all safe while we are driving. God has given us laws as well. Whether we like them or not they do exist. Unlike state laws, these laws from God are not negotiable or subject to legislative changes. I believe that some of His laws exist to keep us safe as well. Regardless of the reason they exist, God, the Creator, demands that we obey them. These laws have been revealed to us in his scriptures. As believers in Christ we can choose to obey them or not. But please don’t fool yourself into believing there will not be consequences or an accounting for the foolish decision to ignore them.”

]]> By: wwjd http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-4032 wwjd Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:24:00 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-4032 What does your Bible say in 1 Corinthians 6.9-10? What does your Bible say in 1 Corinthians 6.9-10?

]]> By: Reid http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-3668 Reid Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:28:24 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-3668 Several places in the Bible God denounces humans wanting to have sex with angels, or sex between humans and angels. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah did not refuse Lot's daughters and say "Bring us the Angels" because they were gay, but because their sexual perversion was to feel closer to heaven by raping angels. Homosexuality is a tangent to this verse being discussed, and yet block-headed members of the Religious Right continue to use it to denounce homosexuality. You Fundamentalists may want to read it with an open mind first . . . Several places in the Bible God denounces humans wanting to have sex with angels, or sex between humans and angels. The people of Sodom and Gomorrah did not refuse Lot's daughters and say “Bring us the Angels” because they were gay, but because their sexual perversion was to feel closer to heaven by raping angels. Homosexuality is a tangent to this verse being discussed, and yet block-headed members of the Religious Right continue to use it to denounce homosexuality. You Fundamentalists may want to read it with an open mind first . . .

]]> By: joebl http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2901 joebl Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:05:38 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2901 I have read Genesis 18 many times and it says nothing about God pre-sentencing Sodom & Gomorah to be destroyed. What does happen is that God has a debate with Lot. God wants to destoy it because of its wickedness (ie: sexual perversion). And what I mean by sexual perversion is simply this. Anything outside the original plan that God had for a sex. This would include, masterbation, sex before marriage (straight or gay), beastality (sex with animals), etc. So Lot bargains with God to find just 10 holy men in the city. God wanted him to find 50!! Lot asked God to take it easy, and God had mercy. But 10 men were not found. So because of there perversion. They were destroyed. You can also see that there was an issue with homosexuality because the men of the city would not even take Lots' virgin daughters. They wanted to have sex with the men, that were really angels. <br><br>That was also a nice try Jeremy. Better luck next time! I have read Genesis 18 many times and it says nothing about God pre-sentencing Sodom & Gomorah to be destroyed. What does happen is that God has a debate with Lot. God wants to destoy it because of its wickedness (ie: sexual perversion). And what I mean by sexual perversion is simply this. Anything outside the original plan that God had for a sex. This would include, masterbation, sex before marriage (straight or gay), beastality (sex with animals), etc. So Lot bargains with God to find just 10 holy men in the city. God wanted him to find 50!! Lot asked God to take it easy, and God had mercy. But 10 men were not found. So because of there perversion. They were destroyed. You can also see that there was an issue with homosexuality because the men of the city would not even take Lots' virgin daughters. They wanted to have sex with the men, that were really angels.

That was also a nice try Jeremy. Better luck next time!

]]> By: UMJeremy http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2900 UMJeremy Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:00:57 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2900 Read Genesis 18. God already planned to destroy S&G before the incident, for the reasons that Ezekiel outlines later.<br><br>The link between S&G's destruction and gayness is not biblically accurate. Read Genesis 18. God already planned to destroy S&G before the incident, for the reasons that Ezekiel outlines later.

The link between S&G's destruction and gayness is not biblically accurate.

]]> By: joebl http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2898 joebl Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:59:13 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2898 I can't speak for him. I can't speak for him.

]]> By: Matt Algren http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2897 Matt Algren Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:47:48 +0000 http://blog.mattalgren.com/2009/04/when-is-a-christian-not-a-christian/#comment-2897 So Ezekiel was lying? So Ezekiel was lying?

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