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Originally Posted by ChristianNotCatholic
Can I try your church for 30 days, and if I don't like it, leave? If so, where can I apply for a 30 day trial membership to your church?
If not, I'll keep looking to see if I can find another King James Bible practicing church. You know, rather than one that picks and chooses which parts are convenient.
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There
IS no other King James Bible practicing church that never, ever, EVER cherry picks the Bible for convenience' sake.
We here at
are willing to accept the troublesome reality of child sacrifice, genocide, stoning as capital punishment, the regulation of rape and the hunt for clothing of single fiber fabrics, (which can be very stressful.)
We don't complain about these edicts of The Lord or try to wiggle out of them. We joyously instruct our children on the laudable actions of Abraham who was poised with a knife at his son's throat because God told him to slice the kid open as a sacrifice. Trust me, there is not a child in our congregation who doesn't know that their mom or dad would cut them dead if they received word from on High to do so.
When it comes to genocide, our methods are tempered by the current law of the land--which, as True Christians™ we are commanded to obey.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers.For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
At this time in our Great country's history, genocide is sort of a sideways operation, but we are working to elect right-minded people who will change the written law and allow us to more closely follow the Bible's instruction in these matters.
By this I mean that, in many instances, when God commanded His folk to wipe out other folk, the ill-favored masses were put to the sword. In this day and age, we have other weapons available that are more efficient and easier to clean up from afterward.
What matters most is that His people are ready, willing and able to obey God's command in any instance in which they don't have to worry about breaking a secular law. Once God's Law is THE Law, genocide will be restored to its acceptable place in the True Christian™ arsenal.
The Lord really doesn't care that much about the details of our
actual arsenal. After all, if He didn't want us to use advanced weaponry, He wouldn't have allowed His followers to accumulate so much of it.
Now, some might use that statement above to argue the validity of using the electric chair or lethal injection as a method of capital punishment. Those people would be wrong. In cases where an individual must be killed for personal violation of God's Law, stoning is the prescribed method.
It doesn't matter if the crime being censured is picking up sticks on the Sabbath or (a woman) losing one's virginity before marriage. God is quite explicit about the stoning part, so other methods are out of the running. Seriously, I dare anyone to find a verse where God commands the use of the electric chair.
The regulation of rape is covered clearly in Deuteronomy and there are no exceptions or provisions for circumstances where rapists cover their victims' mouths. Nor is there any mention of lengthy prison sentences. Those who question God's Word and suggest blanket laws just making rape plain old illegal and punished by imprisonment are the ones who are cherry-picking.
Finally, when it comes to our clothes, we don't mess about with mixed fabrics.
Leviticus 19:19
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.
Yes, this can be a challenge some days. Finding 100% linen or woolen clothes can take some time. (Cattle are easy. Just keep them locked up and don't let them play around on Tinder.) But God's Word is very clear.
We are told to keep His statutes (and not worship statues) and we know that means ALL of them. There is no place in the Bible where God equivocates. One of the best things about The Lord as a deity is that He is so clear about what He wants.
People who follow other (false) religions have to make all sorts of micro-decisions on a daily basis. That can be exhausting. Obeying Our Lord's every command can be a little tiring at times, but once you start applying His Word consistently, most of the hard part is done for you.
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
And The Lord is always there to shore you up. With a promise like that behind us, even genocide without the advantage of modern weapons doesn't seem like that much work.