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Anti-abortion activist Troy Newman of Operation Rescue warned recently that God was sending subtle “weather patterns” to punish nonbelievers.
While speaking to the Crosstalk radio program, Newman explained to a caller that God’s punishment for abortion might not come in the form of “some sort of cataclysmic judgment, like the Flood.”
Instead, he predicted that it would come “one step at a time, one small step until the people groan so heavily and they return back to God and then they’re slowly restored.”
According to Newman, “it’s easier to be a homosexual in this country than it is to be a Christian.”
“You’re a protected class there while we’re a minority,” the anti-abortion crusader opined. “I just think that at some point, people, this country’s going to have to hit the reset button.”
Iv'e always wondered why that when God sends down his wrath; why doesn't he just target the sinners instead of everyone under his dominion.
It just doesn't seem fair that the righteous should suffer along with the unclean ones.
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: olaru12
Wait, so it's not man made climate change, it's god made climate change? That explains everything! Why didn't I think of that?
originally posted by: sanitizedinfo
if "god" is going to punish anyone, it would be the tons of people who make assumptions on what god says, or how god thinks of other people. Its called religious psychosis.
originally posted by: sanitizedinfo
if "god" is going to punish anyone, it would be the tons of people who make assumptions on what god says, or how god thinks of other people. Its called religious psychosis.
According to Newman, “it’s easier to be a homosexual in this country than it is to be a Christian.”
“You’re a protected class there while we’re a minority,” the anti-abortion crusader opined. “I just think that at some point, people, this country’s going to have to hit the reset button.”
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: olaru12
Wait, so it's not man made climate change, it's god made climate change? That explains everything! Why didn't I think of that?
Iv'e always thought it odd when a tornado destroys a church. You would think the faithful would be spared like Noah and Lot. Of course Lot's wife didn't make out to good in the long run.
originally posted by: jimmyx
originally posted by: olaru12
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: olaru12
Wait, so it's not man made climate change, it's god made climate change? That explains everything! Why didn't I think of that?
Iv'e always thought it odd when a tornado destroys a church. You would think the faithful would be spared like Noah and Lot. Of course Lot's wife didn't make out to good in the long run.
speaking of Noah....why did god kill all the animals but 2 ?.........all the rest of the animals were sinful except for those 2 ???....god couldn't figure out how to get rid of just the sinful humans?...he didn't have that intellectual arrow in his quiver? and all the children of the people were sinful as well???.....when a simple human can have more empathy than god, why do the religious think so highly of him?
This is my second of three sermons on the strange God of the Bible. By strange I am referring to God as other. By other I mean other than our culture, other than our psychology, other than our politics, and other than our theology. What I am being cautious about is becoming overly familiar with God. As I said last week, every time I think I have God figured out, something presents itself that jars or even shatters my certainty.
In this sermon series I want to lay out, as best I can, how God in Jesus Christ gives us deep confidence toward the one God of the universe who is simultaneously both part of us and other than us. This is a paradox – God being part of us and other than us. This is what makes the Gospel difficult to grasp. That is why I requested this opportunity to preach for three straight Sundays to establish some building blocks for understanding this paradox which is at the heart of the Christian Gospel.