[Didymus Much]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

There's nothing perverted about being a Furry...

Going by the second definition here. Now, your average Kentuckian may be a furry as you are claiming, but community standards at Landover (Bible based ofc., again verses on request, furry thread has 'em) may be slightly different.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

There's nothing perverted about being a Furry-lol!

If that's so, point out a single thing not perverted in this photograph.

[Elmer G. White]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

The weeping willows behind the furries. Anything that's God's original creation can't be perverted.

Dear Glutton,

I know that you are uneducated and mostly beyond Salvationary™ hope that this assertion or yours needs to be rectified. In fact, God's original Creation has been perverted countless times because of the Fall from Grace by the first woman who displayed gluttony for fruit (Genesis 3:6). Everything God Created used to be good (Genesis 1:10; Genesis 1:12; Genesis 1:18, Genesis 1:25) and everything that God Created has been soiled by perversions, such as sodomy, emancipation, and gluttony (Romans 8:22). Even the perfect Document that God wrote can be twisted for perverted uses.

Jeremiah 23:36
And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.

It is not enough to just try to mirror some utterances of Real Actual True Christians™ thus trying to gain the acceptance of this Community of Christ. Actual study and actual research beyond your favorite cooking shows is necessary. For many (if there was reincarnation which there isn't) it would take several lifetimes or incarnations to get there and still - to our chagrin - most would still fail. Being uneducated is not necessarily the fault of a sinner - not making an effort once a sinner realizes its/his/her/their/whatever's ignorance is.


Yours in Christ,

Elmer

[Roland]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

The weeping willows behind the furries. Anything that's God's original creation can't be perverted.

Thank you for pointing that Willow out. I disagree with you however. That Willow has become weeping due to human interference. I assume True Christians™ would believe that Willow to be an abomination.

[handmaiden]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

There's nothing perverted about being a Furry-lol!

I saw no need to need to mention it until someone wondered about it.

Yes, there was EVERY reason to mention it. I would call something like that a defining characteristic.

Going by the second definition here. Now, your average Kentuckian may be a furry as you are claiming, but community standards at Landover (Bible based ofc., again verses on request, furry thread has 'em) may be slightly different.

I can't believe that a horrible, disgusting (but grammatically precise*) atheist had to be the one pointing out the obvious, but I guess The Lord can use almost anything or anyone to His purpose.

Anything that's God's original creation can't be perverted.

Once more: Read. The. Bible.

The perversion of God's original creation is the major theme of the third chapter of Genesis. Everything that happens past that point is God's clean up operation to deal with what happened to His original creation. The whole Jesus-being-born-without-sin-and-dying-then-coming-back-to-life thing had to happen because of that first definition of perversion that Didymus Much posted.

Perhaps, instead of saying things in your posts that are wildly inaccurate in a desperate attempt to ingratiate yourself to us**, you could read the Bible and/or our discussions about it and decide if you are really capable of toeing the line. ***


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* Mr. Much does have a few redeeming qualities. (Not the kind of redemption that he needs, but he has established his usefulness here, at least.)


** Should that be "ingratiate to" or "ingratiate with"? Come on, Mr. Much, help me out here, you do need to earn your keep, after all.


*** Ha! THAT one I know is right! Learned it years ago, in between learning my Bible verses and how to grow herbs.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

Furry

Hi. I was glad you chose Philippians —

4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Earlier, in chapter 3, Paul reminded the Philippians how important faith in Christ was. He wrote,

3:8-9 I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

Clearly by following mere legalistic requirements, trying to obligate God to overlook the sin nature as Paul was doing, nothing worthwhile can be achieved. What's required is to accept the price Jesus paid to set us free. That doesn't mean later on we can behave in ways God forbids. The difference is that Paul was following laws as THE MEANS to an end he could never attain. Christians, on the other hand, never contravene what Jesus asks as THE RESULT of being saved.

JESUS

Matthew 5:16-18 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

I've been outside this morning and EARTH IS STILL THERE. God's laws still exist, not as a means to gain Redemption from sin but as consistent with everything we do as a result of accepting Jesus – by letting one's light shine. Whatever Christians do, according to The Bible, will never contravene by one jot or tittle anything He has asked us to do. Or not do.

TITTLE

Zephaniah 1:7-9 Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord GOD: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests. And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and deceit.

Some examples of strange apparel have already been posted. And by any standard such attire is strange. That is one of the details Jesus referred to – and I've highlighted another activity certain to be punished. Leaping like gazelles and dressing up for species appropriation come under the heading of jots and tittles.

That is why I'm glad you chose Philippians for your introduction. Paul was anxious that they didn't go off the rails like he had done and how to avoid that is so easy: Jesus explains it right there in Matthew. I hope you see the importance of understanding what God expects and again He sets a clear standard, available to all who believe in Jesus Christ.

[Shadoe_Hare]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

Now, your average Kentuckian may be a furry as you are claiming, but community standards at Landover (Bible based ofc., again verses on request, furry thread has 'em) may be slightly different.

I never said I was from kentucky. (I'm originally from Florida.)


I also never said that all Kentucky people were Furries either.

[Shadoe_Hare]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

If that's so, point out a single thing not perverted in this photograph.

There's nothing perverted going on-LOL!


Everyone's just standing there having their picture taken.

[Shadoe_Hare]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

Thank you for pointing that Willow out. I disagree with you however. That Willow has become weeping due to human interference. I assume True Christians™ would believe that Willow to be an abomination.

Aspirin originally came from willow trees, so they can't be all bad. Everything has good in it if you look hard enough.

[handmaiden]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

There's nothing perverted going on-LOL!d the p
Everyone's just standing there having their picture taken.

Posing to have one's picture taken is not the perversion being cited.

It is the wearing of costumes designed to obscure one's identity as well as the pretense of being another species that is the problem. The unnatural, chimera aspect of those species is a separate problem.

Of course, the most disturbing aspect of all is the need to dress in those unnatural disguises. Someone fixed on knowing God, learning about His Plan for humanity and following God with true devotion would not experience the urge to climb into a faux fur suit in the first place.

[Shadoe_Hare]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

Yes, there was EVERY reason to mention it. I would call something like that a defining characteristic.
Perhaps, instead of saying things in your posts that are wildly inaccurate in a desperate attempt to ingratiate yourself to us.

I'm sure there are things you don't broadcast to everyone here. Things that people would think are 'perverted' or 'unGodly.'


Can you imagine how long people's introduction posts would be if they listed every single thing about themselves?


Some people here think the word 'tail' is potty language and give infractions for using it, but yet I've seen gifs on people's profiles showing a dancing bottom.


I find a lot of people's responses here inaccurate. Like I never said all Kentucky people were Furries. And they'll post a picture of Furries despite saying they're perverts, but I bet they won't get infractions.


I found the forums rather intriguing, that's why I came.


I also thought people here believed in God and Jesus. But boy...I guess I was mistaken there.


God loves everyone, no matter what our sins, and He is the only one who has the right to judge us. Not you, not me, or anyone else here.


For people who are supposed to be religious, most people here seem to act all 'holier than thou' and throw a lot of stones.


I'm shocked that everything is either 'perverted' or 'unGodly' or 'blasphemous', I think people here would be better off if they just turned Amish.

[Shadoe_Hare]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

Posing to have one's picture taken is not the perversion being cited.

It is the wearing of costumes designed to obscure one's identity as well as the pretense of being another species that is the problem. The unnatural, chimera aspect of those species is a separate problem.

Of course, the most disturbing aspect of all is the need to dress in those unnatural disguises. Someone fixed on knowing God, learning about His Plan for humanity and following God with true devotion would not experience the urge to climb into a faux fur suit in the first place.

It's just something fun to do. To be someone, or something else, for a little while. It's not that much different from portraying an animal during a theatre production of Christ's birth.


Remember Balaam' s donkey who talked? It spoke just a few sentences, but it could be regarded as the world's first Furry, a Furry created by God.

[Basilissa]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

God loves everyone, no matter what our sins,

That is not true.

John 3:18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Matthew 12:31-32
31 Wherefore I say unto you, All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men: but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

and He is the only one who has the right to judge us. Not you, not me, or anyone else here.

Not true. God asks us to judge - righteously.

John 7:24 Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

See also the discussion of Matthew 7:1-5 here:

https://www.landoverbaptist.net/showthread.php?t=45137

I hope that was helpful.

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

Remember Balaam' s donkey who talked? It spoke just a few sentences, but it could be regarded as the world's first Furry, a Furry created by God.

Rather than listen to your interpretation of the Bible - and you are dangerous close to blasphemy - I suggest you read what the Bible actually says and what God actually meant with the tale of Balaam's Ass.

Numbers 22:21-38
21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.
22 And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
23 And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
24 But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
25 And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
26 And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
27 And when the ass saw the angel of the Lord, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
28 And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
29 And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
30 And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden ever since I was thine unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? and he said, Nay.
31 Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
32 And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
33 And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.
34 And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Hello from kentucky...

God loves everyone, no matter what our sins, and He is the only one who has the right to judge us. Not you, not me, or anyone else here.

If God loves everyone, why would He punish anyone wearing strange apparel? One reason could be that Zephaniah was speaking to a fad at the time, where people dressed in costumes mimicking a rival group who adored idols. Later on this same issue about clothing came up again.

I Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array

After 700 years, God still thought clothing trends were important – including hairstyles, gold bangles, pearl necklaces, those rings you see on dreadlocks and so on. There is only one source of information about God and Jesus and often when His message is unacceptable, people make up something else. That may give comfort but what would God think about that? For example you seem to get upset when a different idea about fur suits comes along.

In the same way, God gets upset when different ideas about hair broiding, gold and pearls, strange or costly apparel come along. We had no idea what you thought about fur suits until you told us. And we had no idea what God thought either, until He told us. Where are you getting your information about God?

Thank you in advance for replying to my curiosity.

https://biblehub.com/timeline/1_timothy/1.htm AD 63
https://biblehub.com/timeline/zephaniah/1.htm BC 638
= 700