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Megachurch Pastor Comes Out Of Closet

BD, if we carry this out, I am going to enter the realm of attacking your religious beliefs. I would rather not do it, so let's just take go with an "agree to disagree" thing here please.

Were you going to go ahead and attack mine?
 
Not even all Christian sects agree with this.
The dead horse has been beaten. If you want to be a christian, it's a sin. Don't like it? Take it up with God. Neither of us wrote the bible. The pastor knows this already and why he kept it hidden from the church.
 
The dead horse has been beaten. If you want to be a christian, it's a sin. Don't like it? Take it up with God. Neither of us wrote the bible. The pastor knows this already and why he kept it hidden from the church.

You do not get to determine who or what is a christian. Sorry.
 
BD, if we carry this out, I am going to enter the realm of attacking your religious beliefs. I would rather not do it, so let's just take go with an "agree to disagree" thing here please.

You can attack it if you like, I have no problem being shown I am wrong.

Be warned I am well versed in the Bible and can show you what it says with crystal clarity.

In the end it will be irrelevant because his religion (seems to be Baptist) dictates it is a sin, so Mellie is not wrong.
 
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Already took care of yours. It was easy. Painfully easy.

That was an attack? Okay.....

Your response was the equivalent to "nuh uh". :roll:
 
You do not get to determine who or what is a christian. Sorry.

Absolutely correct, but the Bible does since it is it's teachings that are the cornerstone of being a Christian.
 
You do not get to determine who or what is a christian. Sorry.
I never did. Even the best christians sin...according to the bible...7 times daily, at least. That's why I said it's between him and God.

I didn't write it, sorry :(
 
You can attack it if you like, I have no problem being shown I am wrong.

Be warned I am well versed in the Bible and can show you what it says with crystal clarity.

In the end it will be irrelevant because his religion (seems to be Baptist) dictates it is a sin, so Mellie is not wrong.

Who is the real christians, Old Earth christians, or New Earth christians?
 
I never did. Even the best christians sin...according to the bible...7 times daily, at least. That's why I said it's between him and God.

I didn't write it, sorry :(

I have said the same thing twice, and no one seems to care about that part. :shrug:
 
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Who is the real christians, Old Earth christians, or New Earth christians?

It is not important because old or new, the morality of the law stays the same.

Red, that was a really lame attempt. It has nothing to do with being a Christian, as it is history, not the law.
 
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The dead horse has been beaten. If you want to be a christian, it's a sin. Don't like it? Take it up with God. Neither of us wrote the bible. The pastor knows this already and why he kept it hidden from the church.

Really. Where is this belief written in the words of Christ?
 
Really. Where is this belief written in the words of Christ?

Romans 1:18 24-2624Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.


1 Corinthians 6:9-10 9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Matthew 19: 3-6 3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
4 And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,
5 "and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
6 "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."


Don't think it could be any clearer than that.

If you are a Christian, homosexuality is lumped in with fornication and adultery etc. So it is not unusual, and Christians sin all the time. We can be forgiven if we repent and surrender our lives to Christ. This is where the problem starts.

People seem to be of two basic schools of thought. Christians are hypocrites because they just keep doing the same old things. (we are supposed to become Christian robots.) Or we should follow secular thought and keep our "laws" and views of "hell" to ourselves.

To both of these I say get a clue. Christians are sinners and no better than anyone else. In the end it will be God who decides what. What this does not mean is we cannot rally against sin when we see it.

So take it or leave it.
 
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Really. Where is this belief written in the words of Christ?
On sexual immorality:
1 Corinthians 7:2
"But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband"

Matthew 5:28
"But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart."

Mark 7:20-23
And he said, “What comes out of a person is what defiles him. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

Homosexuality:

1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Jude 1:7
Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.


Biblical source(s) (Rambam): Lev. 18:22; Deut. 23:18
Biblical source (Sefer HaChinuch): Lev. 18:22

Leviticus 18:22

You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

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For a man not to have intercourse with another man. Relations between two women are not considered true intercourse, and thus female homosexuality would not be enforced with capital punishment under this commandment. Nevertheless, lesbianism is a violation of the rules against immodesty (see commandment -353), and is therefore also forbidden.

Commandments Governing Sexual Immorality:
Hasidic University
John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments."
 
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However, we are all genetically predesposed towards sin.

I like that. It tells you a lot about the nature of your God when he encodes sin into your DNA and then tells you to avoid it. That is the kind of absurdity that I find utterly delicious in this world.
 
We've beaten this dead horse enough in the past, I have no real desire to get into it again.


Those Christian denominations that view the Bible in a relatively literal fashion typically classify homosexual practices as sin. This would include this man's denomination, Baptist, in most cases.

Ultimately, whether he continues as a minister will be decided by his church, the members and the deacon board/board of directors, and perhaps by him if he decides to resign. Baptist churches are congregational in that they are controlled by their membership; there is no upper hierarchy that will decide whether this man is de-frocked or not, that's in the hands of his members.

Personally I think that is as it should be... but then again, I'm Baptist.
 
I like that. It tells you a lot about the nature of your God when he encodes sin into your DNA and then tells you to avoid it. That is the kind of absurdity that I find utterly delicious in this world.
No one's forcing you to be a christian, you know. :)
 
The dead horse has been beaten. If you want to be a christian, it's a sin. Don't like it? Take it up with God. Neither of us wrote the bible. The pastor knows this already and why he kept it hidden from the church.

You know that some Christians believe that Paul was the first man to distort the teachings of Christ and the Old Testament no longer applies to man since Jesus died for man's sins. Without Paul and the Old Testament, where does the argument that homosexuality is a sin have grounds in the Bible?
 
You know that some Christians believe that Paul was the first man to distort the Bible and the Old Testament no longer applies to man since Jesus died for man's sins. Without Paul and the Old Testament, where does the argument that homosexuality is a sin have grounds in the Bible?
And they're clearly wrong, and are clearly deluded in the meaning of christ's death, for it goes against the words of christ himself, who was there from beginning.

John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments."
 
No one's forcing you to be a christian, you know. :)

Actually I took communion as a child. By my old church's doctrine that means I am forever a Christian no matter how much I may sin. I no longer have a choice in the matter, any sin I committ is absolved. I simply will sit in a lower house in heaven for my unrighteous and misguided deeds on Earth.
 
You know that some Christians believe that Paul was the first man to distort the teachings of Christ and the Old Testament no longer applies to man since Jesus died for man's sins. Without Paul and the Old Testament, where does the argument that homosexuality is a sin have grounds in the Bible?

Darkwizard12 already touched on it but let me continue...

Matthew 19: 3-6 3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
4 And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,
5 "and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
6 "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."


He made man and woman for a reason, and says "let no man seperate." Not hard to understand.
 
And they're clearly wrong, and are clearly deluded in the meaning of christ's death, for it goes against the words of christ himself, who was there from beginning.

John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments."

Did he say that before or after he was ressurected?
 
Darkwizard12 already touched on it but let me continue...

Matthew 19: 3-6 3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?"
4 And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,
5 "and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'?
6 "So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."


He made man and woman for a reason, and says "let no man seperate." Not hard to understand.

Interesting interpretation.

He was talking about divorce.
 
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