Homosexuality is not wrong for everyone - God made some people that way... Divorce is acceptable, and even condoned in many churches - God wouldn't make them stay with that horrible person (that they don't get along with anymore or don't have chemistry with anymore) forever... Abortion is not always wrong - God wouldn't make them have a baby that was a result of rape or incest, and He certainly wouldn't make them have the baby if it put their life in any danger... Women shouldn't be forbidden to do anything - God made them equal and that gives them the right to take on whatever task or position they like, be it head of a home or a church... Sin is not something to spend much time thinking about - grace is there, so it doesn't matter how we live... Everyone is loved by God - we must never say anything about the way people choose to live because it's their choice and ultimately, God loves them and grace will cover them... The gifts of the Spirit and speaking in tongues are no longer applicable - God only allowed those things during Bible times because he wouldn't want anyone today to be embarrassed or viewed as a "freak"... Jesus is not the only way to heaven - that is just the way some people think, but Allah and Buddha can get you there too...I wonder, though, who is this God they serve? If it is the same God I serve, I must be wasting my time because apparently truth is relative. How can they claim to know and serve God when they do not even believe that what He says is true. Does God lie? Or, does God change? Is He one thing for one person, and something entirely different for another? And, what is truth if there is no absolute? How is it possible for truth to be relative or circumstantial?
I wonder because it clearly states in Scripture that God cannot lie: "God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?" (Numbers 23:20, NKJV). In Hebrews 6:18 it states: "to which it is impossible for God to lie". As to God changing, Malachi 3:6 refutes that possibility: "'For I am the Lord, I do not change.'" Again, in Hebrews 1:10-12 (a quote of Psalm 102:25-27) we see that God does not change: "You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You will remain; And they will all grow old like a garment; Like a cloak You will fold them up, and they will be changed. But You are the same, and Your years will not fail." We read in Hebrews 13: 8 that "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." How then, would it be possible for Him to change? In regards to truth being relative, Scripture clearly tells us it is not so. If God is unchanging and the same for all time, then truth is also absolute and unchanging. In John 14:6 Jesus tells Thomas - one of his disciples, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." As to the Bible being reliable as it is written, we read in 2 Timothy 3:16-17 that "All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." Notice that it is for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction! It is not something to follow if you feel like it or agree with it. It is the Word of God given to man that he may be complete and equipped.
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