“No, it is neither unkind nor un-Christian to fail to congratulate someone who has “found” that, regardless of whether or not secular society applauds or protects it.”
I think you mean " … to REFUSE to congratulate … "
It’s unkind. It’s unChristian. What did Jesus Christ say about love? Plenty. What did he say about who should love whom? We should all love one another. Where is the place in your bible that says a woman cannot and should not love another woman? I’ll wait with sandwiches by my laptop for you to tell me specifically where that appears in the bible.
Nope. To wish them well is not the same thing as endorsing or condoning their sexual identities or behavior. What would you lose by being kind? Are you afraid of tarnishing your own shiny badge of righteousness?
If I had meant to write “refuse,” I’d have written it. To refrain is sufficient; there is no need to make a dramatic production out of it. I did not say it was out of place to wish someone well. I said it was out of place to congratulate someone for making a commitment to live a life based on a sexual relationship that is intrinsically wrong.
“Shiny badge of righteousness”?
Really? In a diatribe about
kindness, you chose to go
there? OK, hang onto your laptop…this is my last post, because this thread has gotten enough.
My brothers, if anyone among you should stray from the truth and someone bring him back, he should know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. James 5:19-20
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. Rom. 1:22-28
Do you not know that the unjust will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor boy prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God…Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body.
1 Cor. 6: 9-10, 18-20
This is what Our Lord had to say about sexual sins and going to Hell:
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you, everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body thrown into Gehenna. And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one of your members than to have your whole body go into Gehenna. Matt. 5:25-28
This is what he said about the imperative to “make nice” with the family as a sign of love:
*Do not think that I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace but the sword. For I have come to set a man ‘against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; and one’s enemies will be those of his household.’
Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. *
Matt. 10:34-39
Note below that the admonition not to associate with disobedient actions is in the very paragraph in which the Apostle Paul describes how a Christian must live in love:
So be imitators of God, as beloved children, and live in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us as a sacrificial offering to God for a fragrant aroma. Immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is fitting among holy ones, no obscenity or silly or suggestive talk, which is out of place, but instead, thanksgiving. Be sure of this, that no immoral or impure or greedy person, that is, an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the disobedient. So do not be associated with them. Eph. 5:1-7
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I will save the thread.