Where in the New Testament did Jesus ever mention homosexuality?

December 8th, 2011 | Add Comment | Homosexuality Where in the New Testament did Jesus ever mention homosexuality? |  Facebook

Walter Martin, quoted by Pastor Ken Silva on his website, explains it well:

You say, “Where in the New Testament did Jesus ever mention homosexuality?”

Open your Bibles and find out; because contrary to what the gay church says, He not only spoke against it—He went out of His way to make it very clear so nobody would misunderstand Him.

Of course, you do have to study your Greek New Testament to come up with it. Most homosexual theologians that I have talked to don’t even know the Greek alphabet, much less their Greek exegesis, so they miss it completely – but it’s here in the passage and it should be looked at. Matthew, chapter 15, Christ is speaking, verse 19, “For out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts, murders”, notice the differentiation, “adulteries, fornications”, plural, “thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile”

You say: “The word homosexual is not there; what are you arguing about?”

I’m arguing about the use of the word porneus, which was found written over the wall, and the doorway, and the arches, in excavations by archaeologists of Roman brothels. And the word porneus did not mean “sex before marriage” alone.

It meant homosexuality, bestiality, and all forms of degraded sex. And it became well known to everybody in the culture, that porneus referred to “anything goes”.

Jesus well knew the Roman brothels. He well knew the culture of His time; and when He said “adulteries and fornications” – plural – He was making a direct reference to the practices of the Romans and the Greeks and the pagans of the time who prostituted themselves to all forms of evil.

He knew it; He condemned it. It’s not just the matter of the word, it’s a matter of the culture; and Jesus certainly understood the culture of His time. And therefore, when He used the word “fornications”, He obviously was making reference to all forms – all forms, inclusive forms – of that which was the deviation from the norm of Jewish law.

Source: http://apprising.org/2011/03/21/jesus-does-condemn-homosexuality/

Borrowed Capital

December 2nd, 2011 | Add Comment | Atheism Borrowed Capital |  Facebook

Cornelius Van Til, Christian Theistic Evidence | We readily allow that non-Christian science has done a great work and brought to light much truth. But this margin of truth which science has discovered is in spite of and not because of its fundamental assumption of a chance universe. Non-Christian science has worked with the borrowed capital of Christian theism, and for that reason alone has been able to bring to light much truth.

Atheistic Contradiction

December 1st, 2011 | Add Comment | Atheism Atheistic Contradiction |  Facebook

Greg ‎Bahnsen “The atheist assumes that everything is matter in motion… But what are the laws of logic? Are they material? … No, they are abstract, universal, and absolute… So, within the atheist’s worldview the laws of logic don’t exist, they aren’t meaningful. And if the laws of logic don’t exist, if they aren’t meaningful, if you can’t make sense of them, then you can’t make sense of debate either.”

Divided (the movie)

July 13th, 2011 | Add Comment | General Topics Divided (the movie) |  Facebook

Modern Youth Ministry is Contrary to Scripture. Will you take action to change that? Watch the movie DIVIDED online now for free! Available only until September 2011.

Was Paul Ignorant of Homosexual Orientation?

July 13th, 2011 | Add Comment | Homosexuality Was Paul Ignorant of Homosexual Orientation? |  Facebook

The arguement goes like this: “No doubt Paul was unaware of the distinction between sexual orientation, over which one has apparently very little choice, and sexual behavior, over which one does.” (Walter Wink)

Edward T. Welch, Blame in on the Brain? P&R Publishing, 1998, p. 158-159: “Is it possible that the biblical texts were ignorant about homosexual orientation and were thus prohibiting only ‘unnatural’ homosexual practice by participants of heterosexual orientation? This would suggest that the practicing homosexuals in the Bible were involved in homosexuality against their natural inclinations. Yet the nature of sin is that people sin because they want to sin (James 1:13-15). It comes from our desires. No one is dragged into sin kicking and screaming. Homosexuality existed in biblical times because people enjoyed it; they were drawn to it by their own hearts (Mark 7:21-23). An artificial distinction between (sinful) homosexual practice and (justifiable) homosexual orientation contradicts the Scripture’s constant connection of desire, orientation and deed. If the deed was prohibited in Scripture, the desire was too.”

Mark Steyn on Free Speech

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Rob Bell Really Comes Clean

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A Recently Discovered Letter of Critique Written to the Apostle Paul

April 8th, 2011 | Add Comment | General Topics A Recently Discovered Letter of Critique Written to the Apostle Paul |  Facebook

A satire, co-authored with Jared Wilson

Exclusive: In an exciting example of scholarly cross-collaboration and interdisciplinary research, textual critics and archaeologists have just published a translation of a recently discovered first-century letter, apparently authentic, written to the Apostle Paul himself. Scholars believe it was likely written in the late AD 40s or early 50s. The parchment was remarkably well preserved in a jar buried in a cave on the island of Satiricus. It is surmised that the author of the letter, Parodios, was an elder who had met Paul on one of his missionary journeys.

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Doug Wilson: Rob Bell and the Nature of Arrogance

March 29th, 2011 | 2 Comments | Church Issues, Emergent Church, Universalism Doug Wilson: Rob Bell and the Nature of Arrogance |  Facebook

Abhor the Doctrine of the Universal Fatherhood of God

March 25th, 2011 | 1 Comment | Universalism Abhor the Doctrine of the Universal Fatherhood of God |  Facebook

Charles Spurgeon | As I have warned you before, abhor the doctrine of the universal fatherhood of God, for it is a lie, and a deep deception. It stabs at the heart, first, of the doctrine of the adoption, which is taught in Scripture, for how can God adopt men if they are all his children already? In the second place, it stabs at the heart of the doctrine of regeneration, which is certainly taught in the Word of God. Note it is by regeneration and faith that we become the children of God, but how can that be if we are the children of God already?