Obama's Transgender Ex-Nanny An Outcast

[Bravus]

Ultimately, it is much easier to condemn and look down on that which we are not and at no risk of becoming.

Yes. The key point here is that other people's sins are easy. It's our own that are difficult.

(Mind you, defining what counts as sin is also not so easy, as the thread shows. I don't think being an American right-winger is a sin...)

[Woody]

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I don't think being an American right-winger is a sin...)

Whoopppppeee !!! I am so relieved. I can remain a right-winger and not feel condemned. Praise God.

[Guest]

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I don't think being an American right-winger is a sin...)

Whoopppppeee !!! I am so relieved. I can remain a right-winger and not feel condemned. Praise God.

Yes, I think we can all breath a little easier on the right now.

[teresaq]

Originally Posted By: teresaq(sda)

Guess you didn't really think much of Jesus' approach?

You mean the one in which He said, "repent and believe the gospel"? "For He shall save His people from their sins"? You rightly pointed out the sickness of the transgendered. A doctor is no doctor if he simply befriends the terminally ill. Jesus never kept silent about His desire and ability to heal the most destitute of human conditions. In today's modern anti-God culture trangender is portrayed as something to be celebrated and speaking about it as a sin is something that is portrayed as evil. The modern world has no concern about the eternal future of the transgender. The Christian cannot afford to merely celebrate their diversity.

Interesting what you read into texts. Jesus hung out with sinners. Doesn't say anything at all about Him preaching at them, verbally abusing them with the bible...but hey if that's how you read the text...

Oh hey, here's another example of how Jesus reaches people:

Luke 19:1 And He * entered and was passing through Jericho. 2 And behold, there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; and he was a chief 1 tax-gatherer, and he was rich. 3 And he was trying to see who Jesus was, and he was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature. 4 And he ran on ahead and climbed up into a 2 * sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” 6 And he hurried and came down, and received Him 3 gladly. 7 And when they saw it, they all began to 4 grumble, saying, “He has gone 5 to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8 And Zaccheus 6 stopped and said to * the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have * defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back * four times as much.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is * a son of Abraham. 10 “For * the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Hmmm, amazing what happens when we honestly befriend the "least". Notice how, ummm, some felt about the whole thing? "Hey Jesus, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you telling him how wrong he is? You know "decent" society (which really means scum of the earth) does not associate with that type of person.

[phkrause]

Oh hey, here's another example of how Jesus reaches people:

Luke 19:1 And He * entered and was passing through Jericho. 2 And behold, there was a man called by the name of Zaccheus; and he was a chief 1 tax-gatherer, and he was rich. 3 And he was trying to see who Jesus was, and he was unable because of the crowd, for he was small in stature. 4 And he ran on ahead and climbed up into a 2 * sycamore tree in order to see Him, for He was about to pass through that way. 5 And when Jesus came to the place, He looked up and said to him, “Zaccheus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house.” 6 And he hurried and came down, and received Him 3 gladly. 7 And when they saw it, they all began to 4 grumble, saying, “He has gone 5 to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.” 8 And Zaccheus 6 stopped and said to * the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my possessions I will give to the poor, and if I have * defrauded anyone of anything, I will give back * four times as much.” 9 And Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because he, too, is * a son of Abraham. 10 “For * the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Hmmm, amazing what happens when we honestly befriend the "least". Notice how, ummm, some felt about the whole thing? "Hey Jesus, what's wrong with you? Why aren't you telling him how wrong he is? You know "decent" society (which really means scum of the earth) does not associate with that type of person.