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How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Racoon(m): 7:26am On Aug 06, 2023
On June 26, 2015, the United Stated legalized same-sex marriage. We must ask the big question, “what NOW?”

As the world celebrates what they call a triumph for equality and freedom, we, Christians, are faced with more insurmountable problems that challenge our moral standings. In the midst of moral decay in our society, what should we be doing as Christians?

Point no. 1: Recognize that things will get worse No one can deny that the handwriting is on the wall. Biblical prophecies are now unfolding right in front of our eyes and we know our society is treading down the road of destruction.

The legalization of same-sex marriage happened to Ireland and the United States and I won’t be surprised if the same thing will happen in my country and anywhere in the world.

Christians who uphold the traditional definition of marriage will face persecutions. Those who try to love the Word of God will be called haters. Those who try to raise their voices against immorality will be silenced, ridiculed and most of all, punished.

Point no. 2: Rejoice for our redemption is near
Luke 21:28 tells us; "When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”


Yes, we need to be sighing and crying for how much this world has become so drenched in immorality. However, the Bible says that all these things should come to pass before the return of Jesus Christ.

The world is now setting the stage for Jesus’ second return. We have the hope that one day, God will establish His Kingdom here on earth and He will right every wrong humanity has done. This is one good reason for us to rejoice.

Point no. 3: Be a COURAGEOUS and uncompromising Christian
God told Joshua: “Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go” (Joshua 1:9).

There is no denying that Christians will face a more difficult time now that we are in the midst of Sodom and Gomorrah. Just like Lot, we will constantly be bombarded with pressure to compromise with our beliefs.

When the push comes to shove, will you have the courage to stand your ground and follow God no matter what? Let’s pray for courage and boldness to be good soldiers of Jesus (Yahshua) Christ.

Point no. 4: Approach homosexuality with compassion No matter what people say and how hard they distort what the Bible say, homosexuality is a sin, no more, no less. People may be uncomfortable with that, but that is the TRUTH.

However, we don’t go out there flashing our lights on people’s eyes. We need to speak the truth in love (Ephesians 4:15). Remember, Christians should hate the sin and not the sinner.

We are all sinners. Homosexuals are sinners in the same way as we are. Homosexuality is not the worst of all sins, but it is a sin nevertheless – a sin that should be repented of. Just like Christ who helped the woman who was charged with adultery, we need to have the compassion to lead homosexuals to Christ and help them change their lifestyle.

Let us stop condemning them as if they don’t have the potential to be part of God’s family and they are doomed to burn in hell. This is the main reason other people think that Christianity is evil and dismiss religion all together.

This should not be the case. We must be firm with our beliefs, but at the same time, help them to recognize their need for repentance and change of heart.

Point no. 5: Start reconsidering our priorities in life
There is no denying that we are heading to the last days. The decision of the Supreme Court should behoove us to reconsider our priorities in life. We might still be living comfortably in our homes, but things can change overnight. This should be a wake-up call for every Christian out there.

Let us STOP chasing the wrong things in life, but instead let us all be about our Father’s business. We have a work to do and we are not just Christians warming our seats. The greatest investment you can make today is to do God’s work and follow His will for your life.

What is so bad about Homosexuality Anyway? Can a Homosexual be Saved? Can you be part of LGBT and be a Christian at the same time? Final words

God is in control. People may change the definition of marriage and persecute who will stand against them, but we should never allow them to come between us and God. We have a choice: to bow down our knees to Baal or to God. When all things are said and done, which side will you be standing?

It is my sincerest hope that all of us will find the faith and courage to PERSEVERE until God will finally establish His Kingdom here on earth!
https://becomingchristians.com/2015/07/10/5-things-every-christian-should-do-after-the-legalization-of-same-sex-marriage/

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Racoon(m): 7:30am On Aug 06, 2023
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.

And have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.
(Genesis 1:27‭-‬28‭, ‬31 KJV)
This was God’s original plan for humanity before satan corrupted it. But Jesus Christ came to redeem us back and restore all the damages the devil have wrecked.

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Racoon(m): 7:33am On Aug 06, 2023
"Yes, we need to be sighing and crying for how much this world has become so drenched in immorality including the sexual pervasion of same sex marriage. However, the Bible says that all these things should come to pass before the return of Jesus Christ.

No one can deny that the handwriting is on the wall. Biblical prophecies are now unfolding right in front of our eyes and we know our society is treading down the road of destruction.

God is in control. People may change the definition of marriage and persecute who will stand against them, but we should never allow them to come between us and God...."
Words on marble. He that has an ear, let him hear.

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by AntiChristian: 7:35am On Aug 06, 2023
Gone are those days when the biblical God was using the syllabus of killing homosexuals, witches, apostates, etc.

Syllabus don change!
Westerners don give una gay Bible name am "Queen James Bible".

Alhamdulillah for Islam!

The only way of life still stopping "2SLGBTQ+" is Islam.

Two Spirits, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, etc is more accepted with the freedom mentality that comes with Christianity and so called "Christian countries"!

Sorry apparently they're no Christian state!

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by jesusjnr2020(m): 7:36am On Aug 06, 2023
The same way Christ addressed sinners.

"Go and sin no more." John 5:14, 8:11.

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by RenaissanceGuy: 7:38am On Aug 06, 2023
Racoon:
This was God’s original plan for humanity before satan corrupted it. But Jesus Christ came to redeem us back and restore all the damages the devil have wrecked.
You have a good command of grammar, but unfortunately you're unable to differentiate between have and has. Why not make use of Google to brush up your knowledge on this, so that this doesn't embarrass you in the public one day?

Has = singular; Have = plural. "Devil (singular) has" or "Devils (plural) have".
'Have' is not the past tense of 'has', like you always try to make it look like. 'Had' is the past tense of both of them.
Botragelad:

Of course had is the past tense of both have and has! BUT...
In the sentence "But Jesus Christ came to redeem us back and restore all the damages the devil have wrecked", the correct verb form to use is has, not have or had. Let me explain why.
Of course. Was not that exactly what I wrote?? I only brought in 'had' because I know that he assumes that 'have' is the past tense of 'has', whereas it's the plural instead.

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by RenaissanceGuy: 7:44am On Aug 06, 2023
Now to the topic... America is not the standard for Christians to follow worldwide, neither is their sin what'd trigger the end of the world. Many countries have legalised samesex marriage right before America. Even before the legalisation, samesex relationships were never illegal. They only upgraded it to marriage.

In all of this, what I'm saying is that true Christians in America, Europe, Africa, Asia, etc, know that same sex relationship/marriage, fornication, pornography and all other forms of sexual immoralities are very grievous sins in the sight of God, and by God's grace, we keep away from it.

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Botragelad: 7:45am On Aug 06, 2023
RenaissanceGuy:
You have a good command of grammar, but unfortunately you're unable to differentiate between have and has. Why not make use of Google to brush up your knowledge on this, so that this doesn't embarrass you in the public one day?

Has = singular; Have = plural. "Devil (singular) has" or "Devils (plural) have".
'Have' is not the past tense of 'has', like you always try to make it look like. 'Had' is the past tense of both of them.
Of course had is the past tense of both have and has! BUT...
In the sentence "But Jesus Christ came to redeem us back and restore all the damages the devil have wrecked", the correct verb form to use is has, not have or had. Let me explain why.

The subject of the sentence is the devil, which is a singular noun. Therefore, the verb that describes its action must also be singular. According to the rule of subject-verb agreement, most verbs in the present tense add an -s or -es to their base form when they are used with a singular subject. For example, "He runs fast" or "She dances well". The verb have is an exception to this rule, because it changes to has when it is used with a singular subject. Something like this, "He has a car" or "She has a cat".

The verb tense of the sentence is also important. The sentence uses the present perfect tense, which is formed by using have or has with the past participle of the main verb. The present perfect tense is used to describe an action that happened in the past but has a connection to the present. For example, "I have finished my homework" means that I finished my homework in the past, but it is relevant to the present because I can do something else now. In the sentence, the devil has wrecked some damages in the past, but it is relevant to the present because Jesus Christ came to restore them. Therefore, the present perfect tense is appropriate.
Understood?

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Racoon(m): 7:54am On Aug 06, 2023
RenaissanceGuy:
You have a good command of grammar, but unfortunately you're unable to differentiate between have and has. Why not make use of Google to brush up your knowledge on this, so that this doesn't embarrass you in the public one day?

Has = singular; Have = plural. "Devil (singular) has" or "Devils (plural) have".'Have' is not the past tense of 'has', like you always try to make it look like. 'Had' is the past tense of both of them.
Acknowledged sir. Thank you very much.

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Dtruthspeaker: 8:03am On Aug 06, 2023
Racoon:

Let us stop condemning them as if they don’t have the potential to be part of God’s family and they are doomed to burn in hell. This is the main reason other people think that Christianity is evil and dismiss religion all together.

And this is where you are wrong, for these are the days of judgment and people are called to choose God or Satan.

Thus anyone going into homoshit, wilffully chooses for satan as you can see that they all confess that they hate God, therefore, can never ever return.

And that is why it is right to condemn that other fools and simple men may see that they choose permanent death and eternal punishment when they follow the crowd.

And all who say Christianity is evil are still the same ones who are irredeemably condemned. And because they see they were stupid to choose death, they are therefore stretching their evil hands to pluck other stupid people to join them in their everlasting condemnation.

And the second reason why they say Christianity is evil is because, it is Christ Who is putting the The Sword of Judgment on their evil guilty necks. So it is exactly the way armed robbers curse policemen when the policemen are killing them

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by GanagiBitrus: 8:04am On Aug 06, 2023
With all due respect, the people of Sodom & Gomorrah deserve an apology.
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Righteousness2(m): 8:06am On Aug 06, 2023
I Hate to see when people try to pamper sin.
I Hate to see when so called Christians try to make evil, abomination feel Good.

Listen! Tell people about the LOVE of God.
Also tell them about the WRATH of God.
Tell them about the JUDGEMENT of God.
JESUS CHRIST, the Lord and Savoir of the world spoke more on the Danger of Hell fire than any other thing.

John the Baptist did not spare sin or people , REPENT or PERISH he preached.
Jonah message was simple! REPENT or Nineveh will be destroyed. And everybody ran to God for their lives.

Millions of souls are dying on daily basis and a great chunk of these numbers are flying into hell fire, crying, and bring gnashing their teeth in the lake of fire.

The devil knows the shortness of the time. He is brutally going all out to grab souls in every way possible. Why many so called Christians are playing .

Don't let anyone deceive you or pamper you with sin and Grammar.
The Judgement of GOD is so visible on this generation.
Judgement is coming! Escape for your life.Son will destroy you and package you to Hell.
Repentance is the key

A genuie relationship JESUS Christ is the ONLY way of escape.


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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by advanceDNA: 8:33am On Aug 06, 2023
GanagiBitrus:

With all due respect, the people of Sodom & Gomorrah deserve an apology.

Remove the "with all due respect"..
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by GanagiBitrus: 8:35am On Aug 06, 2023
advanceDNA:


Remove the "with all due respect"..
With all due respect, I will not. smiley
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by OriOko88(m): 9:24am On Aug 06, 2023
After the reformation era of 1455, in which the protestanlism,anglicanism and Methodist splited From catholicism, Christianity has never been d same. Since then,cleargymen have twisted d bible to their own favorable views and the reason is not far fetched.

Early introduction of education to d church made way for different twisted ideas to Christianity. Infact early universities like Oxford,Bologna university,and Paris university were all founded within the church chapel known as monasteries then. So till d world comes to end christians will continue to have different views on doctrinal and moral issues such same same sex Marriage
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Beess(m): 9:49am On Aug 06, 2023
Nvg
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by sylve11: 9:50am On Aug 06, 2023
Hmmm cool
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by superCleanworks(m): 9:50am On Aug 06, 2023
Everything is changing

One day the debate about God's gender would rock the church. Massive rocking.
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by wman(m): 9:52am On Aug 06, 2023
The end times are here.

Lord have mercy.
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by AutoResponder1: 9:52am On Aug 06, 2023
Nice
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by superCleanworks(m): 9:53am On Aug 06, 2023
wman:
The end times are here.

Lord have mercy.

same thing people said when BLACK & WHITE started eating from same plate, not to even talk about falling in love.

same thing people said when Lincoln abolished slavery.

Nothing like end times here. this is just another chapter of history on earth.

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Juanmike(m): 9:54am On Aug 06, 2023
RenaissanceGuy:
You have a good command of grammar, but unfortunately you're unable to differentiate between have and has. Why not make use of Google to brush up your knowledge on this, so that this doesn't embarrass you in the public one day?

Has = singular; Have = plural. "Devil (singular) has" or "Devils (plural) have".
'Have' is not the past tense of 'has', like you always try to make it look like. 'Had' is the past tense of both of them.
Thanks
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by sylve11: 9:55am On Aug 06, 2023
AntiChristian:
Gone are those days when the biblical God was using the syllabus of killing homosexuals, witches, apostates, etc.

Syllabus don change!
Westerners don give una gay Bible name am "Queen James Bible".

Alhamdulillah for Islam!

The only way of life still stopping "2SLGBTQ+" is Islam.

Two Spirits, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, etc is more accepted with the freedom mentality that comes with Christianity and so called "Christian countries"!

Sorry apparently they're no Christian state!

So your religion nor dey practice homosexuality?

Lol grin

Condemn homosexuality entirely if you want to and nor dey deceive the masses as if na your religion holy pass.

grin cool

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by specialmati(m): 9:57am On Aug 06, 2023
cool cool cool cool cool cool the madness continues,the world going gaga
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by specialmati(m): 9:59am On Aug 06, 2023
AntiChristian:
Gone are those days when the biblical God was using the syllabus of killing homosexuals, witches, apostates, etc.

Syllabus don change!
Westerners don give una gay Bible name am "Queen James Bible".

Alhamdulillah for Islam!

The only way of life still stopping "2SLGBTQ+" is Islam.

Two Spirits, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, etc is more accepted with the freedom mentality that comes with Christianity and so called "Christian countries"!

Sorry apparently they're no Christian state!
grin grin grin grin grin grin grin confusion has visited you.accept jesus and have peace

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by mainman7(m): 9:59am On Aug 06, 2023

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Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Rebuke: 10:09am On Aug 06, 2023
Booked
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Sprints3: 10:10am On Aug 06, 2023
superCleanworks:
Everything is changing

One day the debate about God's gender would rock the church. Massive rocking.
God is not human so gender does not come in place . God is light and energy this ones Una dey say God na man. Leave them if they like let them marry Dog. Na this same white people bring Christianity come naija.
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by phemmyfour: 10:12am On Aug 06, 2023
RenaissanceGuy:
You have a good command of grammar, but unfortunately you're unable to differentiate between have and has. Why not make use of Google to brush up your knowledge on this, so that this doesn't embarrass you in the public one day?

Has = singular; Have = plural. "Devil (singular) has" or "Devils (plural) have".
'Have' is not the past tense of 'has', like you always try to make it look like. 'Had' is the past tense of both of them.
How did you arrive at this conclusion? Have you gone through all his posts?
Re: How Christians Should React To The Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage by Mpanyi: 10:15am On Aug 06, 2023
Botragelad:

Of course had is the past tense of both have and has! BUT...
In the sentence "But Jesus Christ came to redeem us back and restore all the damages the devil have wrecked", the correct verb form to use is has, not have or had. Let me explain why.

The subject of the sentence is the devil, which is a singular noun. Therefore, the verb that describes its action must also be singular. According to the rule of subject-verb agreement, most verbs in the present tense add an -s or -es to their base form when they are used with a singular subject. For example, "He runs fast" or "She dances well". The verb have is an exception to this rule, because it changes to has when it is used with a singular subject. Something like this, "He has a car" or "She has a cat".

The verb tense of the sentence is also important. The sentence uses the present perfect tense, which is formed by using have or has with the past participle of the main verb. The present perfect tense is used to describe an action that happened in the past but has a connection to the present. For example, "I have finished my homework" means that I finished my homework in the past, but it is relevant to the present because I can do something else now. In the sentence, the devil has wrecked some damages in the past, but it is relevant to the present because Jesus Christ came to restore them. Therefore, the present perfect tense is appropriate.
Understood?

Lecturer, please lecture well if you must. It's 'had' and not have or has. An action has taken place before it. So it should be had.

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