God didn’t create anything He abhorred. Sin, including sodomy, entered the world through man’s disobedience to His command, and brought death of the body and soul with it. Now notice the difference- sodomy isn’t homosexuality. The temptation is not the sin, the practice is. God also abhors fornication, adultery, lying, drunkenness, rioting and too much more to list here (see 1 Corinthians 6:9-11). In Matthew 5:28 Christ says that to even look at a woman in order to lust after her is adultery (pornography, for example). Your character Bud practices so many destructive things that God could take him to task for. But hypocrisy? I didn’t see Bud claiming Christian righteousness (which a true believer attributes to God alone and not themselves). Hebrews 12:6 reminds us this-that God corrects those he has received as His own. If Bud claimed to believe in God and do His will, God would’ve reminded him of Matthew 5:45-48; that he is not to despise even the enemies of God. Again, God hates sin because it destroys His beloved creation (Romans 8:18-25), of which Bud is a part. He’d want Bud to come away from all sin, not simply bigotry and hypocrisy.
I’ve met guys like Bud in my life, and one of the most jarring things I had to understand was that anyone could be him. Not just including me, especially me. God’s grace is all that stands between us and hell, in our own hearts and the world to come. And the reality of judgement, which can be mitigated by accepting Christ, is a lot more frightening than inoperable cancer, which falls on the just and the unjust alike
How do you have the gall to claim to know God’s mind? Not that there is a God. And your Bible means no more to me than an obsolete phone book. Sell your obnoxious piety to someone else.
I understand. Honestly, I’m not much of anyone to begin with; a fair assembler and an inconsistent writer/illustrator on a good day. I only know what God’s word has revealed to me about Him, and that through His Spirit and grace. Me, I’m nothing; only the mistakes are mine.
Sound reasoning, Ben. You remind of a former student of mine, a Salvadoran migrant who credited Mr. Jesus with all the good stuff, but blamed himself for addictions. God never fails. WE fail.
And God doesn’t exist.
Oh, and not to belavor the point, “God’s word” as expressed in the Bible, which I believe to be no more sacred than the February 1999 issue of People.
God didn’t create anything He abhorred. Sin, including sodomy, entered the world through man’s disobedience to His command, and brought death of the body and soul with it. Now notice the difference- sodomy isn’t homosexuality. The temptation is not the sin, the practice is. God also abhors fornication, adultery, lying, drunkenness, rioting and too much more to list here (see 1 Corinthians 6:9-11). In Matthew 5:28 Christ says that to even look at a woman in order to lust after her is adultery (pornography, for example). Your character Bud practices so many destructive things that God could take him to task for. But hypocrisy? I didn’t see Bud claiming Christian righteousness (which a true believer attributes to God alone and not themselves). Hebrews 12:6 reminds us this-that God corrects those he has received as His own. If Bud claimed to believe in God and do His will, God would’ve reminded him of Matthew 5:45-48; that he is not to despise even the enemies of God. Again, God hates sin because it destroys His beloved creation (Romans 8:18-25), of which Bud is a part. He’d want Bud to come away from all sin, not simply bigotry and hypocrisy.
I’ve met guys like Bud in my life, and one of the most jarring things I had to understand was that anyone could be him. Not just including me, especially me. God’s grace is all that stands between us and hell, in our own hearts and the world to come. And the reality of judgement, which can be mitigated by accepting Christ, is a lot more frightening than inoperable cancer, which falls on the just and the unjust alike
Oh, go on, Ben. Give us the whole list.
Can one infer that you have an extremely low opinion of Donald Trump?
How do you have the gall to claim to know God’s mind? Not that there is a God. And your Bible means no more to me than an obsolete phone book. Sell your obnoxious piety to someone else.
I understand. Honestly, I’m not much of anyone to begin with; a fair assembler and an inconsistent writer/illustrator on a good day. I only know what God’s word has revealed to me about Him, and that through His Spirit and grace. Me, I’m nothing; only the mistakes are mine.
Take care
Sound reasoning, Ben. You remind of a former student of mine, a Salvadoran migrant who credited Mr. Jesus with all the good stuff, but blamed himself for addictions. God never fails. WE fail.
And God doesn’t exist.
Oh, and not to belavor the point, “God’s word” as expressed in the Bible, which I believe to be no more sacred than the February 1999 issue of People.