[Vision2020] Christ Church and freedom of religion

[Taro Tanaka]

Joe Campbell writes:

[[ Check out the posting on Vision 2020 from Princess Taro Tanaka, dated 
Friday, June 23, 2006 10:44 PM. Do you think he’s merely expressing his 
views about “sodomites”? Or is he using this venue as an opportunity to 
fling insults at a group that he despises, all in the name of Christ? ]]

Actually, I don't despise sodomites. And when I use the term sodomites, I 
often have in view the modern-day counterparts of people who lived in the 
city of Sodom at the time it was destroyed by fire from heaven. I don't 
think all those people were homosexuals. I also sometimes use the term in a 
narrower sense to refer to homosexuals. But I don't despise homosexuals 
either.

Just for the record, the primary sin of Sodom was failure to acknowledge God 
as God, and lack of gratitude towards God. Homosexual perversions are one 
result of God's judging us for our failure to offer him gratitude.

I don't despise homosexuals because I know any differences between them and 
me are purely the result of grace, not because I deserve anything from God. 
God owes me nothing, yet He has given me all blesings  in Jesus Christ.

In 1st Corinthians 6, the Bible clearly states that homosexuals and other 
sexually immoral persons will not inherit the kingdomof God. But it 
immediately adds. "Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were 
sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the 
Spirit of our God." Why should I despise what God has made clean?

I am far more angry with liberal, Bible-rejecting so-called "Christians" 
than I am with homosexuals. Regardless, I pray that God would destroy all 
His enemies, preferably by converting their hearts to faith in, and 
submission to, Jesus Messiah.

-- Princess Sushitushi

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