WBC-
I know that you are open to questioning (based on my viewing of Youtube videos) and you seem to be reasonable. What I have noticed, however, is that you are almost always approached in a hostile manner or interrupted consistently.
Let’s just get this out there: I am not a fan of you views but I AM definitely curious about things. Do you recognize the fact that you are taking away you children’s ability to choose a life for themselves? I know that they have the choice to leave the family but what seven year old can make a decision like that?
I want you to know that I am a Christian (and heterosexual) and that I love God. I know that I am not perfect and I repent. But I was brought up to believe that God loves me because he made me. Doesn’t that apply to Jews and gays as well? He may not approve of what they do but I believe that they are loved none-the-less by our Father. I love them as well because they are my neighbor.
Anyways, I hope this didn’t come off as disrespectful. I always try to withhold my judgment of people until after I have communicated with them. I have many questions that I have yet to ask so please respond.
-Natasha
Hi Natasha –
The answers to your questions are listed below in the order you asked them.
#1. First – nobody chooses a life for themselves. I realize that might be a hard pill to swallow for most, but it comes down to the myth of free will – and it is scriptural. Consider the following verses:
Rom. 9:10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 ¶ What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
Natasha – God foreordains every element of the bounds of each one of our habitations. Those two babies inside Rebecca had their lives, both on earth AND in eternity, completely mapped out by God before they were even born.
Thus it is for everyone born. Just because men think, in their foolishness, that they are exercising their free will, doesn’t mean that it is actually happening. Consider what the Lord Jesus Christ said on the matter of free will found at Luke 12:25:
And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
He, having perfect knowledge and understanding of all of the inner-workings of man’s folly, was in effect saying in a mocking tone to all those who claim free will for themselves – "So you have free will, do you? Why don’t you will yourself to grow a foot and a half then?"
‘Nuff said.
#2. Everyone in the whole world raises their children the way they see fit, and in the main, it sounds like you agree with this proposition; except, that is, if the way we desire to raise our children is by God’s standard.
There is nothing better or more loving or kind for a man or woman to do, with regard to their children, than to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Everyone who has children is entrusted with that little baby – who knows nothing and is in need of everything – to teach them what they need to know! What is more important for a person to know than what the Lord their God requires of them? How cruel the opposite is! Every one of your questions provides direct evidence that you have been failed by your parents, preachers and teachers. They should have taught you God’s standard. They didn’t. They taught you a faint, lying facsimile of His holy standard – one that has some feel good quality, but completely misses the mark. Consider
2Tim 3:5 –
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Your parents, preachers and teachers have broken your moral compass! They have taught you that God is a liar! The same God who said "Thall shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind; it is abomination" also said "Thou shalt not kill". You have been taught the big lie that God loves everybody (and therefore it is okay to be gay) – so, if God didn’t mean what He said about the one, does he now not mean what he said about the other? And so now it is also ‘okay’ to kill? And they taught you a false standard because they did not want to live up to the true standard themselves. I know this. I was also taught a false standard. I say what I say to you out of experience. But God has been merciful to me – what my parents meant for evil, God meant for good. The good news, here, is that men have no control over the heart – it is God who controls the hearts of all men. We teach our children what God’s standard is and demand it in our homes out of our obedience to Him – when they come to years, it is our hope that God gives them grace. But this is God’s business, not ours. No man can bestow grace upon another man.
#3. The Bumper sticker theology that "God don’t make no junk" is spoken of in scripture as one of the main ways that hell-bound men have angered the Lord. Yes. Consider the words found at Mal. 2:17 –
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Do you notice the first of the two things here, done by lying, false preachers, that have ‘wearied’ the Lord? When ye say "every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them" – modern equivalent? "God Loves Everyone," or "God don’t make no junk," or "God loves me because he made me (your words)". In fact, God has made the overwhelming majority of mankind specifically for the purpose of showing his power: it is His fixed determination (that means it’s GONNA happen) to punish the wicked in hell for their sins. Consider these words found in
Romans 9:17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
Did God make Pharaoh? And how did God show His power in Pharaoh? By destroying him. And by using him to be that force of evil against which the Lord delivered His helpless, chosen people. In both situations, the Lord’s name was glorified and magnified. Finally, does God love those billions in hell? Didn’t He make THEM? If you answer speciously, as many do, that He does love them – consider this: Doesn’t that seem to be a rather strange way to evidence your equal love for all, by sending some to heaven for eternal bliss and others to hell for eternal torment? Seems like kind of a jacked up scheme to me. U? And if you are still clutching that ‘free will’ lie hard in your hand at this point, consider this: why would someone, having free will, choose hell?
In the last chapter of the last book of the Bible, there are six classes of people outlined who have absolutely NO HOPE of heaven: you, the fags, and the jews are all mentioned.
Rev. 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Dogs is an elegant metaphor for fags found in the scripture, in that both are filthy, impudent, and libidinous. See Deut. 23:18 and Ps. 22:16 for more on this beautiful Bible metaphor. So fags are out. Period. That’s what ‘without’ means – no way they’re getting in, and there’s only one alternative – that is hell. Both you and the Jews fall under AT LEAST two of the forbidden categories – you both are idolaters, in that you worship and serve a ‘god’ other than the Living God – namely, yourselves and your own sense of righteousness. Consider the following two passages:
Romans 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Your parents and preachers did this, and now you do this. And you think you’ve chosen your life?
and
Romans 10:3 For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
This is true of both the Jews and you. You have established your own righteousness, but it is not of God. Words are stubborn creatures.
Finally, although you asked no question about this, I want to make sure that you are set straight on the concept of ‘loving your neighbor.’ Consider the verses that the Lord Jesus was referring to when he commanded us to love our neighbors as ourselves:
Lev. 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD.
In essence, loving your neighbor means warning them about their sin – telling them the truth about it. And failing to warn your neighbor about his sin is evidence that you hate your neighbor in your heart (read the above passage of scripture again and think this through carefully). By a Bible standard, you hate your neighbor in your heart when you are unwilling to warn them about their sin. Natasha – by the Bible standard – you don’t love anyone. You hate your neighbor. This is the product of your Bible ignorance.
This is the product of the cruel upbringing at the hands of your parents, teachers, and preachers. This is evidence that your moral compass has been broken. Now, regardless of that horribly cruel upbringing (that probably felt WONDERFUL), you have a duty to find out what your God requires of you and DO IT. And everything that God says NOT to do, DON’T DO IT. That is a life’s work. but it’s the only work worth doing. Time is short. God’s judgment of this evil world draws near. You should get started right now, and quit trying to justify the lies you’ve been taught.
Okay? Hope this helps.