You would think that if something was plain in Holy Scripture, a church would say, “Yes, amen, that’s so!” But what if Scripture doesn’t agree with what they believe personally? Well, in fact, they SHOULD agree with God and His Word in all cases… but in this case… no! What the Bible says is not “convenient” in our modern culture, to their way of thinking… so, toss out the Scripture! Rule the way you WANT it to be… not the way God says it actually is!
What am I talking about? A large church has ruled in an “ecclesiastical court” that a “pastor” that “married” a same sex couple was “right” and did not violate Scripture by doing so. Excuse me?!?
Romans 1:24 “Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Romans 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Romans 1:31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
Note that this IS New Testament, not Old Testament (I heard one CNN reporter say that the New Testament has nothing to say about homosexuality! WRONG!) Anyway, if we wanted to get into Old Testament scriptures, we could go on and on! Suffice it to say, this story is an indictment against the modern church world!
Court Clears Presbyterian Minister Who Wed Lesbian Couple
“Three years after conducting a wedding ceremony for a lesbian couple, the Rev. Janet Edwards was acquitted Thursday on charges of violating Scripture and the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)’s constitution. The Permanent Judicial Commission (PJC) of the Pittsburgh Presbytery ruled unanimously 9-0 to clear the minister on the grounds that she could not have performed the ceremony since the church and state define marriage as between a man and a woman. ‘It can’t be an offense to the constitution to attempt to do the impossible,’ stated the decision, read by the Rev. Stewart Pollock, chairman of the regional church court, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, associate professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and who has been critical of the PC(USA)’s liberal direction, said the decision represents ‘one of the most absurd decisions ever rendered by an ecclesiastical court.’ ‘This decision is the equivalent of saying that it can’t be an offense to the PC(USA) Constitution, or to Scripture, to attempt to marry a man to a woman other than his current wife, or to his mother, or to a prepubescent child, or even to a horse, because the Church does not recognize as a valid marriage cases of bigamy, polygamy, adultery, incest, pedophilia, or bestiality,’ Gagnon stated. Some argue that the court did not offer a satisfying decision, especially as the PC(USA) continues debates over homosexuality, and that it was more of a ‘non-decision.’ Edwards and the couple she wed in 2005 – Brenda Cole and Nancy McConn – were pleased but the minister also acknowledged that the decision ‘does not settle disagreement among my colleagues.’ But the Rev. James C. Yearsley, who was among several Presbyterian ministers that filed a second complaint against Edwards after the first was dismissed in November 2006 on a technicality, said he wasn’t surprised by the court decision. ‘This is the direction of our denomination, and it is accelerating. But it’s the wrong decision for the wrong reasons. It’s a further attempt to accommodate culture at the expense of scriptural authority and belief,’ he commented, as reported by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Also, before the ruling, Yearsley, who said he would not push for an appeal, stated that an acquittal would signal collapse of church discipline. During the Oct. 1-2 trial, biblical scholars and theologians on the defense testified that Edwards’ acceptance of same-sex ‘marriage’ was within the Presbyterian tradition of interpreting Scripture in its cultural context, according to the local Post-Gazette.” (Emphasis mine.)
“Interpreting Scripture in its cultural context” simply means, “ignore it, if you don’t like it.” Then throw out your Bible, and just walk away from it… because the Word of God is settled forever, it does not change, and neither does God!
Psalms 119:89 “Forever, O LORD, thy Word is settled in heaven.”
Hebrews 13:8 “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”
Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
So, do what you want to do, modern unscriptural churches… but, please, take “Christian” off your signs and names, and just replace it with the “First Secular Humanist Church” and be done with it! Don’t claim to love and respect God and His forever settled Word!
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