Comments on: And the Word became one of us, and dwelt among mankind http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2009/12/27/and-the-word-became-one-of-us-and-dwelt-among-mankind/ YoungAdultCatholics - a blog of CTA 20/30 Sat, 26 May 2012 01:55:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: mrissman http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2009/12/27/and-the-word-became-one-of-us-and-dwelt-among-mankind/#comment-1501 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:37:27 +0000 http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/?p=1531#comment-1501 Dear Phillip,
I think you are or, at least, should be aware that you are choosing to write about a very controversial subject and that you embed it in almost everything you write on this blog. Hundreds of millions of people if not billions of people believe that God’s Word says that homosexuality is a sin. That’s just a fact. When you and others speak of it as a virtue and/or a civil right, it is, of course, going to make people respond in a variety of ways; from shock and frustration to righteous anger.

These Christians also see you portraying them in your and other people’s writings, as bigots and haters of homosexuals. That is simply a lie! That is a straw man that homosexuals and homosexual supporters have created for your own use. We are followers of Jesus Christ and are committed to loving as He loved; even loving our enemies as He also instructed us. Jesus loves all people and therefore wants all people to come to accept Him as their savior. We as followers of Christ are called to reject sin first in our own life and secondly to call others out of it.

Most of us are deeply saddened and frustrated that you and other homosexual supporters have decided that homosexuality should now be considered a virtue. We don’t believe this is true and will never believe it no matter how many other people are convinced of this lie. One thing that informs us of this clearly is from the general revelation around us in the growing population of ex-homosexuals who have discovered the good news of Jesus Christ and have come out of their lifestyle. They tell us of their new life of true love and not lust; true peace and not darkness. See Charlene Cothran’s story at http://www.venusmagazine.org/index.html.

If you’d like to discuss the myriad scripture that supports what we believe, I’d be glad to do that. We don’t believe what we believe out of some masochistic desire to torment people. We believe simply because God says it. We believe Him because we trust in all that He says and commands. We don’t believe man because man changes his opinion from generation to generation.

Beware of kicking against the goads! It is ultimately and eternally a battle already lost. We believe Paul when he wrote, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”, so any suffering for God’s cause in this, is nothing to be compared with the glory that we will receive for suffering and possibly dying for God’s Holy & Righteous Name.

]]> By: Phillip Clark http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2009/12/27/and-the-word-became-one-of-us-and-dwelt-among-mankind/#comment-1500 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:57:33 +0000 http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/?p=1531#comment-1500 I probably shouldn’t have said that I didn’t want ANY negative criticism. So, I take that back.

I welcome critiques, but it’s just discouraging to me that all the comments on these blogs are usually negative…

]]> By: mrissman http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2009/12/27/and-the-word-became-one-of-us-and-dwelt-among-mankind/#comment-1497 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:22:59 +0000 http://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/?p=1531#comment-1497 I would make a post, but since you don’t allow anyone to disagree with anything written, it isn’t worth the effort. Any disagreement is always seen as an attack on the person. Since the authors are mostly stating opinions and not facts, it’s kind of hard to refute the facts. We can only refute the opinions which is always seen as an attack on the author.

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