blackbird

If one believes in Jesus and his word, the Bible, then he would not need to ask the nonsensical question "is god ok with lesbians". If he believed in the Bible and knew what it says, he would know the answer. All humans are sinners and fallen from grace and need to repent and turn to Jesus as lord and savior. That's the relevance of the verse.

Reportedly the suspect had been convicted 59 times of criminal offences, half of which were violent. Yet the parole board which falls under the authority and jurisdiction of the federal government, deemed that he should be released even though it was agreed there was a good chance he would re-offend. It was agreed he was into drugs since he was about 13 and that drugs and alcohol fueled anger and violence. Another cabinet minister who is responsible for aboriginal affairs has recently been talking about aboriginals being over-represented in prisons and that something needed to be done about that. I wonder if the release of this offender has something to do with the Liberal-NDP belief that there should be fewer aboriginal offenders in prisons and did this drive parole board policy in this case? He was also apparently sent to a healing lodge at one time during his stints in prison. This did not appear to have done any healing in spite of the claims about the benefits of healing lodges. Should drug and alcohol and other social problems on reserves and the larger number of aboriginals in prisons be a factor in releasing offenders on parole? Apparently the parole board thought if he would follow the rules they laid down and commit to regular meetings with a parole officer, everything would be honky dory. What part does protection of the public play in their decisions? These are a couple questions that need to asked. Incidentally, the public safety minister, Marco Mendicino, just said in a news conference that now is not the time to talk about the cause of this; he says we need to concentrate on support of the families and friends of the victims. But I do not see it as any reason to evade discussion of the cause of this which Canadians want to understand. I think as the top official responsible for the justice system and parole board, he has some tough questions to answer.

" 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. " John 3:36 KJV

Just wondering if anyone knows why the title on this article and another one I started are not in bold letters like everyone else's.

"All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." - Bible. Yes, America and the west is becoming more evil. But it is not up to me to punish anyone or do anything bad to people. I just pointed out the article on how America is evil (and Canada). We are all called to treat others with respect and fairness regardless. That does not mean one must approve of other people's lifestyle or behavior. We all know leftists and people like yourself are trying to force everyone to buy into and agree with what is going on. But that will never happen. Do you understand the difference? One can disagree without being disagreeable. Do you understand or are you still confused?

Some people believe what you claim. Others believe it was the sin of pride. But most Jewish and Christian theologians/scholars believe they were destroyed because of Sodomy, which is where the word came from. Nobody today believes anyone should be destroyed for those kinds of sins and most people believe everyone should be treated respectfully and equally (everyone treated the same in life). Most of mankind are non-believers and we are all sinners and need to be redeemed according to the gospel.

I already told you the answer about Lot and his daughters. I will repeat God does not approve everything that happened that is recorded in the Bible. Just because someone did or said something does not mean God approved of it. As I said many things happened and are recorded as historical events in the Bible, both good and bad. You have to actually study the Bible perhaps with some guidance and not just cherry pick things just to try to bait someone or try to undermine the Bible. You will never accomplish anything that way or learn anything.

I welcome any questions or comments on what I post. There is nothing to hide.

I don't have a church at the present moment because of Covid and because of my age and heart condition, it may be risky for me to go. Not sure I could survive Covid. I may go to some local church once in a while; I don't know yet. I attended and was a member of Free Presbyterian, Baptist, and Reformed churches in other towns and cities over the past 36 years. I would prefer a fundamental Baptist church with dispensational theology but it may be hard to find in this area. I think they are closest to the Bible. But I may consider some other church because there is not much choice here. But a person needs fellowship or they must live like a hermit as I have been.

I am not in a position to make that decision. Purely hypothetical. Many things happened in the Bible which you cannot attribute or blame God for. It is just recorded as a historical event that occurred. It is also recorded that David had an affair with a woman and arranged to send her husband into battle where he was killed. What do you think of that? Again these are historical events that happened. Humans are fallible and do the wrong things sometimes. That is just a fact of life. The Bible records the good and bad that happened. The Bible doesn't try to hide them which is further evidence in support of it's authenticity.

No. Just a Bible believer.

quote Sodom, Sodomy, and Sodomites One of the most prevalent sins in Sodom was the homosexuality of the men, engaging in sexual relations with the other men and boys. Sodom is where we get the term “sodomy and sodomites” named after this widespread sin of the town. After the angels entered the home of Lot, the men of the city surrounded Lot’s house. According to Genesis 19:5, “They called to Lot, ‘Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.’” unquote The Bible Story of Sodom and Gomorrah and Its Destruction (christianity.com)

Also, don't forget the central issue in the Bible is the sin of mankind which is the rebellion of mankind against God. That is the central problem in the world today. Where do you stand on that and what is your relationship with God? So is God concerned about man's relationship with God? You bet. If we are to take the Bible literally, which I believe we are, without salvation billions will spend eternity in hell.

No, it is not my "pet issue". It is one issue of many as far as politics and the world. But I know it is a central issue with the progressives and radical left/liberals. Sexual orientation and gender identity is even being taught in schools as if it is the norm and only way to stop bullying, which it isn't.

Because that is what God is concerned about in his written revelation, the Bible. What goes around comes around to our kids, families, friends, and everyone else. If you study the Bible's central teachings you will learn about the fall of mankind and mankind's corrupt heart and what can be done about it, i.e. the salvation that God offers through his Son, Jesus Christ.

That idea sounds like it would come from the modernist, apostate churches that preach the false social gospel. This author in his book exposes the false social gospel: quote 1. Man is not so bad, and God is not so mad. In his book, The Kingdom of God in America, H. Richard Niebuhr criticized the liberal Social Gospel describing its message as, A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross. Rauschenbusch and his followers tended to blame sin on societal structures rather than human nature. According to Kyle Potter in a Georgetown College article, they believed individuals could not leave a life of sin until they were freed from the social and economic situation that drove them into sin in the first place. This view plainly contradicts the Biblical concept of original sin. 2. Cultural restoration is the Gospel. Social Gospel adherents seemed to believe the Gospel was centered on cultural involvement: if people transformed culture, only then would Christ be revealed. But this understanding of the Gospel is too narrow. Christians are absolutely called to engage culture—that is the heart of the Cultural Mandate—but the Gospel is larger than that. It is the story of God’s creation, fall, redemption, and the final restoration. Rauschenbusch seemed to over-emphasize cultural restoration and minimize Christ as the agent of cultural transformation. 3. Social salvation is superior to individual salvation. Conservative theologians saw redemption as a matter strictly between each individual and God, but Discover the Networks says progressives in the Social Gospel Movement, held that redemption could only be achieved collectively, by means of unified, social and political activism. Though Rauschenbusch saw individual salvation as important, he always considered it secondary to social reform. In a recent interview with the Gospel Coalition, Tim Keller rejects this notion: …individual salvation needs to be kept central. Though the Social Gospel movement has since fizzled, similar theology has appeared in Emerging Church circles today. Pastor Rick Warren referred to the Social Gospel supported by many of the mainline churches as “Marxism in Christian clothing.” But Warren points out we shouldn’t choose between cultural restoration and personal salvation. The Gospel contains both with Christ at the center. unquote Three Fallacies of the Social Gospel (tifwe.org) Another article says, quote: Reformation of Individual Human Hearts The Biblical Gospel of Christ is not centered upon reformation of whole societies of the world, but reformation of individual human hearts. The impact upon society that ensues from reformed human hearts through regeneration by the Spirit is resultant not primal. The genuine, i.e., Biblical, Gospel of Christ, as it is delineated and elucidated in the Word of God, does indeed tangentially mention how the Church—not as an institution or organization, but an assemblage or amalgamation of individual believers—are to reach out past “the four walls” of their local churches to render assistance to the poor, the needy, the oppressed, and so forth, nevertheless, such charitable “works” are not the central and primary message or objective of the Gospel. Rather, they are, as I say, tangential, and a matter of charitable outflow of reformed or regenerated individual hearts. The purpose and intent of such charitable works is to demonstrate the agape-love of God—that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”—not to assume the untenable task and unbearable burden of righting every wrong in the societies of the world and underwrite the financial needs of every person in the entire world. Word of God and Gospel of Christ Written to Believers “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” One vital, though at first glance seemingly tangential, fact to keep in mind in this respect and with regard to all aspects of Biblical truth is that the Word of God is not addressed to unbelievers but to believers, except in the sense of providing unbelievers with Truth about and from God to convict and convince them of who He is and how desperately they need Him in their lives and that only He has the power and the plan to save them from the damnation they so richly deserve. To the self-reliant, intellectual unbeliever the Gospel of Christ and the Word of God is pure foolishness, but to the believer it is empowerment and a manual for daily living as well as the after-life: “For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” (1 Cor. 1:18). God Did Not Obligate the Church to Subsidize the Poor Jesus, for example, did say: “For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you wish you can do good to them… (Mk. 14:7), but He did not command or obligate the Church to subsidize “the poor” as a people-group, and that the Church should lobby their Federal, State, and local governments to take money from the not-poor in the form of taxes to underwrite government programs to subsidize the poor—not just on an emergent or urgent basis but as a matter of course—for multiple generations, thereby essentially teaching those generations that they do not have to work to earn income to support themselves and their families, but incessantly receive subsidies freely handed out by governments funded by taxpayer-extortion. In fact, as the verse specifically and expressly states, what Jesus said was: “whenever you wish you can do good to them.” Clearly, this was not an obligation or a demand He was placing upon individual Christians or the Christian church at large, but rather He made it clear that it was volitional, i.e., of a person’s own free will, and left to the individual’s own judgment on a case-by-case basis, and not a mandatory or compulsory matter in general. unquote What’s Wrong With The Social Gospel? | Spirit Life Magazine Of course there are many different articles and points of view on what the message of the Bible is. You will have to study that, but many modern churches have become apostate. Some of the larger denominations are really into the social gospel and have even gone so far as to ordain practicing homosexuals as ministers. So we should endeavour to really study this subject and ultimately the Bible should have the final word, as the Holy Spirit teaches it to us.

If it is rape, the law should force the guy to pay all expenses to raise the child until it reaches 21 years of age or be sent to the gulag for 21 years of labour. The money from forced labour could be used to pay the expenses. But no abortions. It is time the law toughened up in these cases.

In Trudeau's Canada, religious Christians are not welcome. In Justin Trudeau's Canada, Religious Christians are Not Welcome (capforcanada.com) Trudeau's talk about being "inclusive" does not include religious or bible-believing Christians. This would be the same for Biden's America.

When Presidents, Prime Ministers, and other politicians support all that sodomy stuff I think it is an important political issue to be concerned about. It is turning America into a Sodom and Gomorrah and teaching our kids it is normal.

One thing Biden never mentions is the fact he and many Democrats are pushing America in that direction: America become a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah? Evidence America has Become the Modern Day Sodom and Gomorrah – Online Ministries (online-ministries.org)

You might be interested in the Free Presbyterian Church from Northern Ireland. They have many sermons from their various ministers. They have established churches in north America including Canada. God uses Godly men to preach his word to mankind. Some are good and some not so much. Some of the Free Presbyterian sermons are exceptionally powerful. One website with over two million sermons from countless church and preachers. SermonAudio Sermon Search

quote The fact that the law of Moses, including the Ten Commandments, has ended does not mean that one can worship idols, take God's name in vain, disobey parents, steal, kill, commit adultery, or do other sinful things condemned in the Ten Commandments. Nine of the laws found in the Ten Commandments are repeated as a part of the New Covenant and must be obeyed today. These laws are binding today, not because they were a part of the Old Covenant, but because they are a part of the New Testament. The one commandment found in the Ten Commandments that has not been made a part of the New Testament is the commandment to "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy"(Exodus 20:8). There is a good reason for not repeating this commandment in the New Testament. The Sabbath was given to the Jews to remind them that God brought them out of the land of Egypt "through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm" (Deuteronomy 5:15). It is not the Sabbath day but the first day of the week, the day Christ arose from the dead (Mark 16:9), that has significance for followers of Christ under the New Testament. Therefore, Christians are not commanded to keep the Sabbath (Colossians 2:16), but are expected to assemble on the first day of the week and take the Lord's Supper (Acts 20:7). The 10 Commandments From Exodus 20Commandents Repeated The New Testament Have no gods before me v.31 Cor. 4:8; Acts 14:15 Make no graven images v.4Acts 17:29 Do not take the name of God in vain v.7Mat. 6:9 Keep the Sabath Day holy v.8?????? Honor they father and mother v.12Eph 6:2 Do not kill v.13Rom. 13:9, Rev. 21:8 Do not commit adultery v.14Rom 13:9, Heb. 13:4 Do not steal v.15Rom. 13:9, Eph. 4:28 Do not bear false witness v.16Rom. 13:9, Eph. 4:25 Do not covet v.17Rom. 13:9, Col. 3:5 One cannot be saved by "keeping the Ten Commandments." We are no longer under the covenant that contains the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments were a part of the law of Moses that was given to bring the Jews to Christ (Galatians 3:24) and that ended at the cross. That law, or covenant, condemned those who "continued not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them" (Galatians 3:10). In the New Testament there are still commands to be obeyed- even nine of those found in the ten commandments. But under the New Testament there is forgiveness of sins through Christ for the one who repents and is baptized (Acts 2:38), thus becoming a Christian, and for the Christian who tries to live right and confesses his sins (1 John 1:7-9). unquote Are We Under The Ten Commandments, Today? | Timberland Drive (timberlandchurch.org)

"Written by men" but men who were inspired by God. "16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Timothy 3:16 KJV 3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts," KJV

We have reached a dead end with you. You obviously are not interested in knowing the truth. After thousands of years of expertise by biblical scholars, you know better.

I don't think God changed his mind. "If the Bible’s teachings for monogamy are so clear, why then are so many of God’s Old Testament saints polygamists? The reason Scripture records so many instances of polygamy and concubinage is not to endorse these actions, but to condemn them and show just how destructive such sexual perversity proved to be. Consider the outcomes of four of Scripture’s most notable polygamous relationships." quote LAMECH Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. When he built a city, he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch. To Enoch was born Irad, and Irad fathered Mehujael, and Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah. . . . Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; you wives of Lamech, listen to what I say: I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. If Cain’s revenge is sevenfold, then Lamech’s is seventy-sevenfold.” (Genesis 4:17–19, 23–24) The first polygamist in Scripture is Lamech, a son in the line of Cain. Lamech is not an exemplary character. Instead, Moses portrays him as the archetypal bad guy of the prediluvian world. In the line of the seed of the serpent, Lamech is the epitome of human wickedness, a man whose bloodlust and violence are exponentially worse than Cain’s. “As Christ has only one bride, so marriage on earth testifies to that truth.” Moses’s mention of Lamech’s two wives establishes a stark contrast between God’s good design in the garden and life away from the presence of God, east of Eden (Genesis 4:16). This story of the first polygamist in Scripture establishes that those who follow Lamech’s polygamous ways do so not out of righteousness, but because they’ve sinfully embraced the ways of the serpent and followed in the pattern of Cain’s unrighteous seed (at least in the area of sexual ethics). unquote For more case studies in the Old Testament: Why Did God Allow Polygamy? | Desiring God