[Professor Bessemer]

Re: Its Me

Well maybe it is because of your past Gay identity Professor Bessemer, it was a blow to the head for me to see the programme you offer and that you once were a gay. Is it not the case that, once a homosexual always a homosexual Corinithians 1:23. I judged you on your past and for that here is an apology.

No friend, I chose to be gay. But once I received Jesus into my heart, He helped me choose to be a normal person. You could do the same thing friend. Choose to be straight and that is your first step toward salvation.

[Pastor Ed Lowman]

Re: Its Me

Well maybe it is because of your past Gay identity Professor Bessemer, it was a blow to the head for me to see the programme you offer and that you once were a gay. Is it not the case that, once a homosexual always a homosexual Corinithians 1:23. I judged you on your past and for that here is an apology.

If sputtering out verse fragments and paragraphs bereft of any meaning (and downing bottles of Jim Beam) were measures of Godliness, you would be a glorified saint.

But unfortunately for you, they aren't.

Pastor Ed

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: Its Me

I choose not to marry until I find a woman who will treat me as scripture says I ought to.
1 Sam 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

It is nice to see you're posting Scripture, and you may assume I understand the context of your as scripture says I ought to.

The overall environment in which these verses were vouchsafed is one of discontent. It would be the right of any Sovereign, God explained to Samuel, to conscript any subjects at whim, and for any purpose. To be confectionaries, cooks, bakers in the case of some subjects or soldiers in the case of others. And sure enough that's what happened. Even when King David, for example, blasted a soldier into the front line so that David could be enticed by the grieving widow who plonked her bubble bath right there outside David's window and frothed herself up in the sun.

Yes, as king, David could do that. It was WRONG but he had the authority do it. The punishment was DEATH (a lingering death in this case) (of his son).

So whether or not you ever find a confectionary to marry you does not alter God's explanation and will not bestow sovereignty upon you.

I SAMUEL 8:18–21 And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears of the LORD. KJV