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This part of my blog is just gravy.

I had an encounter with someone in YouTube comments that at first sounded like a trap the Scribes and Pharisees would give, but it turned out unexpectedly.

TRJ: When the Pharisees quoted the old law at Jesus, were they right or wrong? When they condemned him for breaking the Sabbath, were they right or wrong?

Me: Of course they quoted the old letter of the Law, that's all they knew, but Christ would put a new Law, a "Royal Law" that would take the place of all the laws and sayings of the prophets.

They were wrong. Because even though they quoted the old letter of the Law about the Sabbath, they didn't understand the 'heart' of the Law. The Sabbath was made for us, not us for the Sabbath.

TRJ: So the spirit of the new law is more important than the letter of the old law. Thanks! To restrict yourself or hurt yourself or even to circumcise yourself is to put yourself back under the law which Jesus fulfilled with his sacrifice. Paul wrote that the Gentiles need not put themselves under the restrictions of the Old Law, because to do so would be to reject Christ. Consider Galatians 5:2 "Look! I, Paul, tell you that if you have yourselves circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

How much more painful and unnecessary a restriction is it to be denied the pursuit of fulfilling companionship that others get to pursue simply by virtue of being heterosexual? Even God himself says in Genesis "It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make a suitable partner for him." The guiding principle here is companionship to help relieve loneliness. This restriction against same-sex relationships, like circumcision before it, appears to be an unnecessary barrier to Christ and community with the Church for LGBT people. Are we not worthy of "suitable partners" for ourselves?

If the answer is Yes, then that would contradict God's decree that such loneliness is not good. Today, if people "cut off" their sexuality or their foreskin, they effectively put themselves back under the old law and Christ becomes nothing to them.

The law leads people to Jesus, Jesus does not lead people back to the law."

All Christians should be this like this man. Having a knowledge of the Word, reasoning, and wisdom, a real life Proverbs 2:6 instead of the Proverbs 9:7-8 I mostly get on social media.

We as Christians have been given the power by Christ to "Bind" or to "Loose" (Matt. 16:19) on subjects coming before respective Church leaders, subjects the churches have never needed to address before when a judgment call needed to be made. What is decided by them with these subjects on Earth, Heaven will respect. This autonomy was given to the Jews (Matt. 23:3), and Christ gave it to the Christian elders who sit at the "Seat of Moses" with the body of believers they lead in agreement (Acts 15:22).

When church bodies decide the affirmative on issues of homosexuality only now coming before them (acceptance, marriage, ordination), it is loosed in Heaven. Some church bodies still "bind" on homosexuality and that is fine, they have that power on Earth that WILL be respected in Heaven, but this is not binding to those church bodies that loose acceptance.

As far as I know, I'm the only who put this little apologetics gem in relevance to the Church with homosexuality. Let someone else run with it in more depth.

Play this song and read the rest below, it's kinda fits.

Ex-gays" love YouTube (they've now built a big presence on TikTok). Someone wrote this because the testimony of the "ex-gay' was getting raked over the coals in the comments section:

"Can y'all people just leave people who just want to live freedom from homosexuality just let us be. Man, that is part of the reason why Ex-LGBT people don't want to tell their story because people are so hostile and are afraid to be called bigot or homophobe and even get hurt for even testifying freedom from homosexuality. Just to let you know some of the comments are hurtful some people so can you explain your opinions a little bit more respectfully."

My response: I'm not justifying the hostile comments, but I want to give you some insight into why they're here. If you hear what most of these "ex-gays" say in their testimonies, you'd see why they get the anger they do. They had bad relationships after bad relationships? It's not because they were dysfunctional relationships, they'll say it's because they were GAY relationships. They've always felt alone and empty? They'll say It's because they're gay and not how others have made them feel or how they feel about themselves. They were sexually abused? Blame homosexuality instead of putting the blame where it really belongs, on their abusers.

I just came from a channel of an "ex-gay" who said homosexuality is selfish. It was a selfishness for HIM because that was how he was as a person, but don't apply that to me who's in a relationship of self-sacrificing love. Now you know why we have a problem with these "ex-gays." They pin all their bad experiences and personal hang-ups on homosexuality and THEN they tell straight Christians we are just like them with all this struggling, loneliness, and unhappiness they once had. Can't they just live their lives with the happiness they supposedly found and stop projecting on us the mess they were? And of course straight Christians will eat up what they say because they tell straight Christians what they want to hear about homosexuality.

A refute, even if loving of these "ex-gay" testimonies, and ironically, you are labeled the hater. You'd think straight Christians placed money bets on these people the way they cheer them on. There are a ton of vids on YouTube from people saying they have overcome everything from drug addiction to emotional brokenness by the Power of God and they have just a few comments, but boy, an "ex-gay" will always have their comments section packed to the brim with people praising God they left homosexuality.

Since I'm starting to blog again, let's revisit some of the slivers of glass in my milkshake.

I'm never going to talk about the creature that was in the Oval Office in case you're wondering.

Franklin Graham has really become the political hack since the few postings I did on him. He's also gotten so bad with taking shots at the LGBTQ on Twitter and in interviews, even Christians are finally saying enough. A few months ago every venue he was to speak at in the UK, the same towns that embraced him before, revoked all of his speaking invitations because he went too far with harping about homosexuality even for them. Would Franklin humbly respect their wishes because he's boycott crazy himself or because it's the Christ-like thing to do? No, he got his load of lawyers to sue all of them, including several ministers with what Paul said not to do to fellow believers. What happened to dusting the dirt on off your feet and walking away from the towns that won't have you like Christ tells us to do Franklin? Or what about not demanding your way or demanding back what's taken from you like Paul tells us to do franklin?

I also want you to never forget that Franklin did an interview for a Russian newspaper where he made the "Pedo Libel" claim against homosexuals that passed under the radar of the American media because it was printed only in a Russian newspaper, in Russian. This is the real Franklin and not the one he presents in the states that claims to love the homosexual. He knew if he made this claim in the English speaking press, even prominent Christians would call him out for it, so the coward only gave how he really felt to an audience on the other side of the world who already believed it.

Big seller at Franklin's favorite doughnut shop, Voodoo Doughnuts.

Addendum: I found out I was wrong. Franklin did do a interview with an American journalist where he stated homosexuals "recruit" children. I really didn't think he would have the guts to bear this false witness. My question is do most of his ministry supporters know he said this? He has a lot of support from moderate Christians who would stop supporting him if they knew he made this pedo accusations.

Ravi Zacharias updated.

You'd think time would have tempered Robert Gagnon with all the refutes of his book, but he's still the insulting prig with calling out the sexuality of scholars who did the refuting and demeaning lay Christians who call him out with saying they are not the great and wonderous scholar he believes himself to be.

He still thinks his book is relevant today... got bad news for you sweetheart.

Remember I compared Gagnon to a minstrel show only bigots clapped to when I did a critique of his book? There's a story of the Salem witch trials that I think is apropos for him NOW.

A group of young girls in the town of Salem would drop to the floor, retching and screaming, saying they were being vexed by witches that started the witch hysteria the town of Salem is associated with. When the trials were over, everyone knew they made a big mistake and these people killed were innocent victims. The story goes that not too long after, one of the girls who was in the group of witch accusers saw a group of travelers walking down a road. She fell on the floor, retching and screaming, saying she was being vexed by a witch because she thought the stunt might still work. One of the travelers walked up to her and said (in modern speak); "Give it up. No one is falling for it anymore." Hearing this, the girl got up, brushed the dirt off her dress, and quietly walked away.

This is Gagnon, an accuser you can tell to now hang up the act because no one is buying it anymore.

“The first time homosexual appears in a German translation is 1983. To me that was a little suspect because of what was happening in culture in the 1970s. Also because the Germans were the ones who created the word homosexual in 1862, they had all the history, research, and understanding to change it if they saw fit; however, they did not change it until 1983. If anyone was going to put the word homosexual in the Bible, the Germans should have been the first to do it! As I was talking with my friend I said, “I wonder why not until 1983? Was their influence from America?” So we had our German connection look into it again and it turns out that the company, Biblica, who owns the NIV version, paid for this 1983 German version. Thus it was Americans who paid for it! In 1983 Germany didn’t have enough of a Christian population to warrant the cost of a new Bible translation, because it’s not cheap. So an American company paid for it and influenced the decision, resulting in the word homosexual entering the German Bible for the first time in history."

- Theologian Ed Oxford, author of "Forging a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Became Anti-Gay."

I'm starting to see a dangerous path someone is taking that I'm promoting on my blog. The issue is on the authority Scripture should have on our lives. It's becoming convoluted with him saying the Bible should be the authority, but only what is the "good authority" we take for ourselves (?) if I'm understanding him right. I could be wrong if that's not what he's saying.

I'll only quote what Benjamin B. Warfield said and leave this alone:

"The trustworthiness of the Scriptures (original autographs) lies at the foundation of trust in the Christian system of doctrine, and is therefore fundamental to the Christian hope and life."

This should be posted again.

I come from a family of foodies and great cooks. It's in my blood, or is that huli huli sauce in my veins? I've recently discovered the joys of MSG. I put it in everything and it's like a can of pressurized biscuits exploded in your mouth with flavor. I know it's gotten a bad rap when people were saying they were getting migraines from Chinese food ("Chinese Syndrome") that had MSG, but we know now that was a bogus scare. To date, no study, except for one seriously flawed one, shows MSG, a common amino acid, does anything to you. Mine comes in the form of "Peruvian Flavor Enhancer" (like it was somehow dug up in the mines of Peru) you can buy in Mexican markets. Sprinkle it on something and see if I'm lying? And if it feels like your head is about to split open? It's probably because you ate bad trout and not because of the wonderous thing called MSG.

David Chang on MSG.

Recently I was accused of "breaking God's heart" with what I believe on the Bible and homosexuality. I also was in the past accused of breaking the hearts of other Heavenly hosts with what they say is my "Hayride to Hell" (not a Halloween Hallmark Channel movie) with how I believe. Apparently I seem to be breaking hearts all over the place.

These people love to preach on social media because everything knows think they're preachers. If I bring up the apologetics of Romans 1, they change the subject and write me a big sermon having nothing to do with what I said like they're auditioning for a pastor position instead of responding to what I just said on Romans 1. These people go to their heartfelt feelings (what they accuse progressive Christians of doing) and sometimes do these paragraphs after paragraphs of loving Bible-speak of how God loves/cares/wants the best for me, but these urges/desires/practices of homosexuality of mine are sin to God, but they can't judge me, like they just did, because they aren't perfect either. They do this assuming I'm not a Christian or if I am it's me needing homosexuality like I'm jonesing for a fix of it and that's why I'm deceiving myself with how I believe. They think the Holy Spirit is giving them these words to speak to me (if the Holy Spirit really was leading you, you wouldn't be saying what you're saying to me because you'd be wasting your time).

They love to hear themselves give the message of salvation, like no one has ever heard it before, and pat themselves on the back after because they thought they just gave a great witness. I guess it's easier to give me paragraphs of all of what Paul already wrote instead of answering me with what little I wrote on specific verses you can't answer, so off you go with what will take me an hour to read.

I say all of this in relevance to a discussion I just had and often have. I also add that it's only recently the Church came up with this; "Only straight marriage reflects the union of Christ and the Church" argument. This is a clever and new trick because there is no actual verse on homosexuality you can go to with going to the original languages you can refute . They've successfully weaponized the institution of marriage with making up an entire theology against homosexuality from nothing.

What I wrote on marriage.

Speaking about progressive Christianity...

Not believing in Hell is a thing with progressive Christianity, but those verses can't be refuted because Christ spoke more on Hell than He did on Heaven. There is no wiggle room with Hell because it's not in a vice list with no context or in the context of idolatry. Another thing that's big with them is how we should see ourselves. The Bible says we are rotten (the first thing I wanted to establish when I came up with my blog name) to the core, no one is good or righteous, not one. Progressive Christianity says this is a bad way of looking at ourselves. We need to see ourselves in only a good way and do away with this negative view of seeing ourselves as rotten sinners with no good in us. Let's get something straight. Christianity doesn't exist to affirm you or to make you feel positive about yourself. If this is the type of Christianity you want? Don't bother calling it Christianity.

Obviously she's missing out on love because one of the men isn't a woman.

This needs to be said again.

Paul in Gal. 3:28 makes a distinction with using the word "and" instead of "nor" because he's going to the Genesis language of God made "man AND woman" in Genesis in 1:22. Paul THEN addresses the culture which divided people by social standing and ethnic background by the use of the word 'nor' to show there is no distinction between Jew and Gentile, free or slave, all being equal before God. Paul knew exactly what he was doing with his exact wording to those who would use the man and woman paradigm from Genesis some type of rule for some, and not freedom for all.

One of the first names I went after when I first started this blog was Michael Brown. Somehow he's crowned himself as the spokesperson for the 'anti-gay with the Bible' sect and he walks around like he lords over the thing. He has no theological training and he believes that just because he's a straight Messianic Jew, it gives him the right to speak on all things homosexual in the Church. He just wrote this that was printed in gay news outlets:

"We are vile. We are vicious. We are mean-spirited. We treat each other with disrespect and disdain. There is little honor. Little humility. Little grace. Perhaps worse still, we have been taught to hate and we have found justification for our hatred. They are Satan incarnate. They are pure evil. They deserve nothing but damnation. They are worthy of our ridicule. To treat them with even a modicum of decency is beneath our high Christian calling, a calling we now demonstrate by our condescending, cruel, mocking, and merciless attitudes. Oh, how holy we have become! The truth is that we can hate sin without becoming hateful. We can stand against corruption and evil without becoming vile. We can even be righteously indignant without becoming venomous. Have we become so consumed with partisan politics to the point that our Christian identity is now completely intertwined with a fleshly, angry, divisive, and accusative spirit – the very spirit of worldly politics?”

When I read this, I was nearly shouting Hosannahs thinking the Holy Spirit finally broke through to Michael in showing him how most Christians like himself have been with the LGBTQ.

Then I read this was in the context of only Republican and Democrat Christians having nothing to do with the LGBTQ.

Back to the dog house you go Michael.

Paul was called to preach to the Gentiles. Sometimes I really wonder if I was called to preach to stubborn anti-gay Christians itching to pick a fight. God knew it had to be someone like me to deal with them..

Grace Selmer Baldridge is the #1 singer on Christian iTunes and she's just getting started. She's also an out and proud lesbian. The floor is littered with thrown out Christian singers who when they came out, could only find gigs in the back of gay coffee shops and one room affirming churches. Grace has somehow broken the "Gay Christian Singer Curse" (It's unbelievable, but later it would be done again by a drag queen, you heard me right, named "Flamy Grant"). Of course Christians are furious over it. Most of the comments on her on-line concert call her "Satanic" to someone who's hurt, lost, and needs to be put to God in prayer. If you listen to her music, you'd understand why she's in the place she's in. She has a rawness that's almost unnerving. People want to connect to God with raw emotion and Grace does it for them. Even Kevin Max of DC Talk came out in support of her Tweeting; "Excited for you and for this breakthrough ... it's high time Christian music got a shake up with a message of reality & hope beyond the homogenized CCM ... kinda historic, definitely amazing."

I don't believe this fury would be so strong over Grace if she wasn't a lesbian.

A YouTube comment has a good take on this stating:

"It's time to recognize the difference between "Christian music" and "Worship music." Worship music has one purpose; to glorify God. We need to have a space where Christians can sing about their life, their experiences, and their struggles with faith. And those struggles are rarely squeaky clean, polished stories. Christians sometimes say the f-word. Christians sometimes get angry with God. Christians fall into sin. Why can't they sing about those experiences? Some of my favorite songs are about people's struggle with faith due to the hurt they've experienced from the church. I wouldn't call them worship music, but its a song that is a major part of many Christians' life experiences.

This album is about a Christian's life experiences in relation to her faith. She made Christian music. Not worship music. Christian music."

One of the reasons youth are leaving churches like water seeping out of a cracked snow globe according to a recent study is because of how the churches continue to treat the LGBTQ, the only group of people openly discriminated against by the Churches today. Instead of telling youth; "Let's have a conversation, and you're right, we have been pretty sh#tty to the LGBTQ," mainstream denominations are doing the opposite by becoming more harsh, more unmovable, and refusing to open any new dialogue on homosexuality unless it's condemning of it. Keep up this pig-headedness and see more and more youth living their faith without you for a kinder and more empathetic way of living their faith.

You believe a way to slow the leaking of young Christians away from established church bodies over your stance on the LGBTQ issue that isn't going away is to go after "Gay Christianity" that you've singled out as a movement. You don't listen to arguments like mine that stay within the borders of the Bible being inerrant, instead you lump me in as some part of diabolical revisionist theology called "Pro-gay Theology."

Are you being asked to compromise the Bible? Absolutely not, at least not from me, but you can either listen to me and those like me who still hold the integrity of the Bible as the center of all of how we believe as you do with just one theological disagreement, or you can hold empty snow globes wondering how progressive Christianity ran off Gen Z and Gen Alpha.

Revoice

What Pastor Mike Winger said on 'arsenokoite' was brought up to me on Sean McDowell's YouTube channel. So I went across the street, got two orders of takoyaki, and sat down to hear what I thought might be challenging on what he felt like he could speak on. First, he's really awkward with how he speaks. I almost felt bad for him because of how he held himself when speaking. I found it hard to believe he was a pastor of a church with real pews and living people sitting in them, then I found out he was a youth pastor. Not to down youth pastors who wear hoodies and tell teens not to touch themselves, but they aren't the first people that come into my head when I think of hermeneutics and homosexuality.

I went over every point of what Winger said on the mystical word in 1 Corinthians 6:9 as he was saying them (I just used some of my own arguments because it was so basic) and you could almost feel how visibly upset the guy was who put up the challenge was with commenting back to me because I just blew one of his heroes out of the water. My intent was not to hurt his feelings, but if you tell me Winger's arguments were "airtight," you're going to have to accept when I show they aren't. Winger comes off as a great guy and even the guy who brought Winger up to me came off as a great guy, but some people just shouldn't be in a pulpit and some people need to know when to stop seeing a man as a hero.

Like I said, this all happened on Sean McDowell's YouTube channel with an anti-gay Mennonite theologian he did a Q&A with (I brought up my own another Mennonite theologian who believed the opposite to Sean's Mennonite theologian). When I did a lengthy refute of Preston Sprinkles (I still find it hard to believe that's his last name) on Sean's channel another time, he deleted it. I bring it up again on the Q & A vid and Sean contacts me himself saying he didn't delete anything. I told him to look for my comment calling him out for the deletion with the unedited time stamp to prove it and all Sean could say was "good to know" before running away.

If I was public persona with a money making ministry who wrote books and did podcasts? I would be a living nightmare to people like Sean and Sprinkles, and Winger, who then would have to engage me openly instead of hiding behind living room dra hoping I don't see them.

I also think they're all in cahoots against me and talk about me in dark church basements.

My big question is this. Are they in a bar or some kind of backroom bar in a restaurant? Or is it a bar with a restaurant menu that has chicken with waffle fries? A Holiday Inn bar in Burbank California had a layout just like this. It smelled like pine sole and Pinoy lechon.

Catholic argument for gay unions

Those who use the procreation argument haven't thought about the subject very deeply at all. It doesn't take very much thinking or debate with competent opposition to realize the argument is extremely weak. After all, fathers and daughters can procreate, as can mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, and first cousins with first cousins. This line of reasoning, taken to its logical ends, leads directly to incest acceptance if procreation is the only criteria for marriage.

"The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dependence), and the celebration (the ready and spontaneous enjoyment) of the presence of the Word of God in the common life of the world."

- William Stringfellow

I heard of Greg Eiler's book from a trans girl. It was persuasive enough that her conservative pastor called her up and said he was sorry for being so wrong on the issue after reading it. Since trans seems to be the new battlefield with anti-LGBTQ Christians, this book should be invaluable in future debates.

Trans Air Force Staff Sergeant Logan Ireland daring you to say something.

Bad Theology Kills

Hungry little Bird.

A YouTuber interviewed Christopher Yuen because Yuen will talk to a cardboard cut-out at Home Depot if he thought it would interview him. If I'm not on Chris's sh%t list now, I will be if he ever reads the post I did on him a few years back that's at 3k views and counting. I think the reason it's so high is that the Chinese community is a very close knit and insular community, so word spreads fast. The Chinese are like the Hasidim, but with more of the color red and dipping sauces. I asked the YouTuber who interviewed Chris why not give the perspective of a Christian, gay-affirming, gay man (hinting at myself)? His response was "Matthew Vines is pretty good." Dead. I died.

I saw a recent vid of Chris and it was more than disturbing. He spoke like a robot and looked like someone smeared Vaseline all over his face.

“(Saint) Patrick was a great winner of souls. And he is — I can tell you — he is in heaven. I have seen his mansion. And because Jesus also has a sense of humor, he built Patrick’s mansion in a field of five-foot-tall shamrocks. I saw him in heaven, and so he’s got all these shamrocks that sing to him and they work with Jesus Christ because God has a sense of humor.”

- Self-proclaimed Christian "Prophetess" Kat Kerr.

The pink type is in honor of her cotton candy hair.

Kicking Devil ass and church casseroles is the name of our game son

I already addressed the question of; "Why after all these thousands of years is the argument only now being made to see whose Scriptures, always thought to be a general condemnation of homosexuality, now being said they're not?" I want to add another point.

They see it as me questioning how the Church, the Body of Christ on Earth, has always seen this, but you have to remember that a large chunk of that time was the Church being the Catholic Church, a religious body that put what councils and what the early church fathers had to say on the level of Gospel itself.

Of course, the early Catholic councils and church fathers are going to have a vehemence against homosexuality as straight men are prone to and that vehemence of course is going to be carried over to Protestantism because why wouldn't it? If you read what these councils and early church fathers had to say on homosexuality, it almost all comes from opinion. Even the staunchest opponents to Catholic traditions like James White can't help themselves with letting what the early church fathers had to say inform them on homosexuality and Scripture when they say it should be only be Sola Scriptura. I bring up the early church writers myself, but I bring them up in the context of them contradicting each other, what they did a lot of, or showing what they believed on it.

The Catholic views on homosexuality, from councils and the early church fathers, have dictated how the Protestant church has felt about homosexuality even up to now with them not knowing where this influence on their collective consciousness really came from, the same for the unbelieving World. To question that negative view is not questioning Catholic tradition of seeing Homosexuality, how it SHOULD be seen, but questioning Scripture itself.

I didn't say all the above to bash Catholics though I believe, like the Bible says, you need to be born of the new birth and not just go through the motions of ceremony and prayer repetitions "as the pagans do," but the painful fact is the historical hatred of Jews is rooted in Catholicism, a hatred Martin Luther shared, so no one is off the hook with this historic hatred of homosexuality. It's bad Catholic baggage Luther carried over to Protestantism when it should have also been left behind with the anti-Semitism.

When the U.S. Congress passed the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act last fall to establish a toll-free number with assistance for those with mental health crises, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops quietly lobbied behind the scenes against the legislation. The bishops’ justification? The legislation contained funding for LGBTQ mental health support.

This testimony from 2016 is important to hear again. I've always said the big thing with "ex-gays" is that they have a pattern of past same-sex abuse they later blame for them being gay when they grew up. This guy actually gets it with seeing the same-sex abuse he endured as having nothing to do with him being a gay man now. He even gives a subtle middle finger to ex-gays who say; "Homosexuality is what we went through, it's not what we are now."

Johnny Cash saying I'm going to Hell.

1 Corinthians 13:13 reads:

"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."

Now this seems to be a straightforward saying that love is greater than faith or hope, but if you go to Paul's Greek, you'll see the word for love is αγαπη that isn't just a general term for love, but a word that specifically denotes the love of Christ. Remember I showed in my previous translation post how the mysterious "faith" is just another word for simply "trusting?" Now knowing this, the meaning of this verse takes on a new light of God's love for us.

Faith - trusting.

Hope - in (where you place your trust).

Love - God's love.

But the greatest of these is God's love.

Translation? Trust in God's love because His love for you is greater than all the trust you could ever place in Him.

When I do posting like this or give spiritual practical advice like if Christians should watch horror movies? I get so much love for my spiritual advice, but when I say what I say with homosexuality and the Bible? I get called a demon by a chorus of comments.

Speaking of demons...

Years ago I posted a video of how the Pentecostal church is booming in the LGBTQ community in Brazil. The responses were as if I posted a video of a pet snake eating a tiny Christmas manger. Nothing sends the anti-gay religious off the deep end like seeing the LGBTQ worshiping God in the Spirit. It really hits something deep and ugly inside them and honestly, some responses felt like they were demonic.

Let's try to piss off demons again.

Sojo

I'm starting to see the heresy of Gnosticism rearing it's ugly head again. I studied Gnosticism years ago (author Elaine Pagels was the big pusher of it with her books) and it really was a nonsensical thing. Gnostics have these counter "Gospels" (Book of Thomas, Gospel of Mary, etc.) that are esoteric and just plain cheesy (I couldn't even finish the Thomas Gospel because it was like a stoned teen wrote it trying to sound deep). They were never 'kicked out' of the canon because they were never in it to begin with (proponents of it claim it was swatted out of the early church with a broom like it was a mouse who got into a house). It's from these heretical works that we get the heresies Mary was the lover of the Lord and Judas wasn't such a bad guy after all if you read HIS Gospel. The LGBTQ come into play with this because they're looking at Gnosticism as some type of Christianity that would embrace them. Who knows where they got this idea because the Gnostic "Acts of Thomas" says gays are burning in Hell.

Someone quoted me some Bible verses that they claimed spoke against homosexuality. I said that it never ceases to amaze me what lengths you people will come up to find something new against homosexuality no one has ever seen before. Sure enough, now the anti-gay are saying that homosexuality is a form of Gnosticism, an argument (a new book published makes this argument) that is just as fantastical and non-sensical as the Gnostic Gospels themselves.

I will say I'm glad I read Pagel's book. Her aim in one chapter was to make those who were martyred for the faith in the early church look stupid for giving up their lives. These stories will never leave me and will always be in my heart. Doing the opposite of what her aim was.

Turn off your phone, get in your comfy blanket with some microwaved Totinos Pizza Bites, and listen to some classic Stan Moore for the next hour.

Kick-Ass Priests

Pentecostal Evangelist Ernest Angley dies (Aug 9, 1921 - May 7, 2021)

From JMG:

In 1996, internationally known televangelist Ernest Angley admitted to his assistant minister that he had had sexual relations with a man who was employed by their church, Grace Cathedral in Cuyahoga Falls. The telephone conversation was tape-recorded and made available to the Beacon Journal and Ohio.com last month. The person who provided the tape did so for a promise of anonymity. That person felt called to action after reading about an exchange of lawsuits between Angley and another former Grace Cathedral pastor, the Rev. Brock Miller. Miller sued Angley in August, claiming that sexual abuse Angley inflicted upon him has caused permanent damage. Angley had countersued for defamation. The source believed releasing the tape would show that Angley, who has preached vehemently against the “sin” of homosexuality, has a history of sexual abuse involving his employees. Angley has consistently condemned homosexuality. In a 1995 book called “Oh, God, What a Mess!” he wrote, “Homosexuality is vile, vile before God; and it will send souls to Hell.”

I'm making the painful decision to delete the post on Colby Martin. I get mail from him all the time and each time it just seems he's going further to a place I don't see as sound. I will always see him as a brother in Christ, but I can't in good conscience keep on promoting his views here with people thinking I support his type of progressive Christianity and yes, this was the person I was talking about I didn't name above. His message of an easy Christianity with not wanting to see yourself as a "bad person" finally did it for me. Christianity IS a struggle of fighting the inner man and becoming less so Christ becomes more in us. We are to die to self everyday, it isn't a one time deal that happens when we are born-again with Paul giving us a clear reminder of that (Romans 7:15-20). The inner man will always fight to put himself on the throne of our heart and it will always be a continuous fight to beat the old bastard down. If your walk of faith is following 'rules' of the Bible you hate doing, then you aren't existing in faith.

At this point I should contact people like DeYoung and Gagnon and give them the challenge that if I can prove their deception with what they've written on the Bible and homosexuality? They give $10 to a LGBTQ homeless youth shelter. Think they'd be gracious enough to take up the challenge? They could build a food pantry just with the bogus "science" section from Gagnon's book alone.

I see I'm back to my fixation on Catholics.

Resources I found: 1, 2

My fake bio I will never post for believr.com (dating app for gay Christians):

I like long romantic walks along swimming pools, book clubs talking about the book "Torn" by Justin Lee, and fasting to the point of passing out. No Latin boys because my last boyfriend was a Latino and he was full of demons with the way he talked to me. No fats, fems or Episcopalians.

A Letter from a Gay Christian Man to a Straight Christian (who deleted it in the comments and banned me)

Hey friend, I'm a Christian too.

Now you may not believe that, but I really am. And I agree, God did call us all to put to death what we once were, but you think that death for ME is who I love. You say it's not about singling out gay people, but this video isn't for anyone else. We're all broken, but what you see as my brokenness, is my peace in my faith. Now you bring up 1 Corinthians 6:9, but I know the language Paul wrote that verse in and it doesn't say what you think it says. I know, you read it in what's in most Bible translations and it's what was always told you by your church, so why question it? I get that, but I did question it because it's a bigger thing for me than it ever will be to you. And if I remember right, wasn't Genesis only a narration of how God created everything? So how did you turn that into a law against who I love now? When did that happen when I never heard this argument until just a few years ago? I'm not mad at you because I know you come from a place of love, that's why it hurts me when such sincere people like you are sincerely wrong. But this is the thing, you can change your heart with me! You can love me and call me a brother in Christ without thinking I need to change, but to do that you need to listen, and let's be truthful, the Church isn't really big on listening to people like me.

So how should you come at this as a straight Christian? Glad you asked. It should go something like this.

I was always taught to believe homosexuality was wrong because of what the Bible says. I'll be honest in saying that because it personally doesn't affect me, I haven't looked closely at how some Scriptures have been interpreted in the way they have, but it shouldn't even matter if I'm right about homosexuality not being in God's right plan, I still have to love you as myself because Jesus commanded me to. I can't deny you marriage because I won't deny it for myself or others who don't believe in God like I do. I won't use terms like "lifestyle" or "agenda" or make comments to demean you because it's un-Christ-like for me to speak to you or about you in that way, again, that's not loving you as myself. The truth is the Church has gone way overboard with homosexuality and it should repent of that. I know I don't have such a strong reaction to someone who's divorced or living a life God wouldn't be happy with or even with the things I practice in my own life, so maybe I'm coming from a place I need to look at that maybe might not be love. I want to be like my Savior more and more every day and that can only happen if I listen, really listen, instead of just talking at you. And who knows? Maybe God will show me you're right.

It's June, gay pride month. That means anti-gay Christians are going to lose their mind and act like gays will descend on them like vampires in the movie "30 Days of Night."

I was asked what Hermeneutical methodology do I use. It's the Grammatico-Historical-Hermeneutic. Same one all Evangelicals use.

Countering Jubilee.

I wrote this on my marriage post when the question was asked; "Should a (non-affirming) Christian attend a gay Wedding?"

Any decisions or choices we make as a believer should go through the test of "Loving your neighbor as yourself." Now the question is asked; "Would I want someone I love to attend my wedding even though they might not approve of the union?" The answer is yes if you really followed the edict of "Loving your neighbor as yourself" as a hard truth. Doing into another that you would want to have done to you in real action. Weddings are attended all the time by people who might not necessarily approve of the person the loved one is marrying, but that shouldn't change because it's a homosexual union and the fact you are playing a part in their joy and happiness because you love them is a Christ-like testimony they won't soon forget and will be the greater witness than anything you could say on homosexuality. Christians have no problem attending secular weddings that are all ceremony and not faith-based with the two getting married, why should it be different here? Plus, you get free shrimp at the reception, and who doesn't like free shrimp?

A pastor with a ministry in Australia responded back with this:

The vast difference is that God designed marriage between men and women. Those who are not Christians who get married into a heterosexual marriage are still in line with the creation mandate. The golden rule is all about what’s in the best interest of the other person. It’s not about what the other person wants. It’s about how can I act in their objective biblical best interest? In the same way that I would want someone to act in my objectively biblical best interest!! My friend might want me to go to the pub with him and get drunk, but that does not mean that I do that simply because it’s what he wants, and what I might have wanted if I didn’t have Christ! Attending an event that celebrates a commitment to lifelong sin is the most hateful and hurtful thing that we could do to anyone. It is the opposite of the golden rule.

And I responded back with this:

So all it takes is that it's a man and a woman? It doesn't matter if the two are haters of God, as long as they are the opposite sexes? If they don't acknowledge God, how can this union be right in the eyes of God? All it takes is the right plumbing and God will be happy? You following the Golden Rule isn't dependent on the other person, it's only about your actions towards them. How is it going against THEIR best Biblical interest when they find offense with you not going and you blaming the Bible for it? This is NOT following the Golden Rule and you're making God out to be the bad guy for it. If your friend needs you to go out with him because he needs you as a friend, you don't have to get drunk with him because he gets drunk. You going to his gay wedding isn't you getting gay married too, it just means you're giving your presence to support your friend, loving him and doing for him what he would do for you. YOU may think it's hateful and hurtful going, but you not going is what THEY see as hateful and hurtful to them.

He wrote me back:

It doesn’t matter what they interpret from your actions. That isn’t your job! Your job is to live with integrity and conviction!

You going to the bar with an alcoholic friend would be an utterly destructive and stupid idea.

Me back:

It's not what they're "interpreting," it's what they are seeing. Your job is loving your neighbor as yourself, THAT is your job if nothing else. Do that and you do well in your faith (James 2:8). Comparing alcoholism to same-sex attracted people. Great. I hate when gay people get so gayed that they kill people in car crashes or their lives fall apart because they keep knocking back shots of gay in the morning. Showing true love is going with your friend ESPECIALLY if he's an alcoholic. Not going is what would be destructive and stupid in case he needs you to drive him home.

I want to say one more thing because we will never agree. I minister to people who have questions about the Bible and homosexuality and the pertinent issues that surround it. I was confronted by a mother who asked me if she should attend her daughter's wedding, the question of your video. Of course, you know my answer. She went and afterward wrote me how it was one of the wisest things she did. She said when her daughter first saw her, she broke down in tears because she thought her mother wouldn't come. The mother said she felt no compromise in the spirit or of her faith. She said when her daughter first came out to her, there was a closeness that was gone, until that moment she went to this marriage. She said she felt she got her daughter back and thanked God for it. Two people were blessed that day. The daughter for the rest of her life will remember her Godly mother going to this important occasion, and she will think of the God of her mother because of it. On gay social media, I have seen account after account of gay men and women who invited their parents to their wedding and the parents didn't go because of the advice given to them like the one in the video above. The fruit of it was hurt, bitterness, parents feeling justified in their self-righteousness, and a hate of the God of the parents who made them unloving to their child. You will know a thing by its fruit. I pray you see the error of what you speak.

He banned me from his channel. The next week he railed against "progressive Christianity" because he thought I was one, and the week after that he had an "ex-gay" on because he still couldn't shake me of.

My favorite thing at a Chinese buffet is the crab bake. A creamy casserole with imitation crab that's the star to me of the place. When I learned how to make it, I couldn't stop making it. Russ (the hubby) doesn't even like seafood except for the occasional mahi mahi (Cajun style) if a restaurant has it, so it was all just for me. The big ingredient is mayonnaise and I had to do more cardio and battle ropes just so I can eat the stuff. Which brings me to my mayo fixation. I started to stick mayo in everything because it seemed to make everything taste better. From chocolate chip cookies to homemade tortillas. It was my umami until I found the wonder of MSG.

There used to be a restaurant in Encino called "Jerusalem Pizza. An Italian/Japanese restaurant that was run by Hassidic Jews. They made this "sushi pizza' that was like a crab bake, but with crispy rice as a pizza crust and raw fish on top of the bake I never found anywhere else. They would talk about me in Yiddish (I have that look where people are always asking about my nationality). Old German women also talked about me in German in an authentic German deli when I said; "Give me the stinkiest cheese you have" because I like to try strong cheeses. All the talking about me is never good.

Rabbi Menachem Creditor has a great anecdote on marriage.

He was at a panel with other conservative rabbis. One rabbi said "The beauty of conservative Judaism is that at one table we have both people for and against gay marriage when it was passed." And Rabbi Creditor stood up and said that when the ones against it expressed their disgust, someone should have slammed their fist upon the table and defended the LGBTQ community. From his perspective, debate about halacha applies to things like whether swordfish is kosher, never about the humanity of others. Because it was never just about marriage, its always been about whether LGBTQ people deserve love, family, and humanity.

Straight Christian women are doing a very strange thing. I'm seeing more and more of them having "ex-gay" men on their channels. They gab and giggle, cook who knows what together like they're on a Food Network show, and wonder together why her garden roses keep dying. Then it hit me. These are straight women who are doing the "Gay Best Friend" relationship without the men having the typical sexual trappings of a sexually active normal gay man. These women have their GFF without him talking about the cute guy he just met that takes the attention away from her or her having her gay bestie spending more time with a boyfriend than with her. These guys still have "The Gay" straight women love and can't get enough of with the added plus their gay buddy is sexually neutered spiritually. What more can a straight woman want? A straight Christian woman doesn't even have to bug him about his sinful "lifestyle" because he's not in it anymore. I'm hoping more Christian straight women don't catch on to this trend of a "Ex-Gay Best Friend" who reassures them they're the whole package without talking about 'packages.'

What do these "ex-gay" men get out of this? I still haven't figured that out yet, but it's no secret gay men gravitate towards straight women like we're programmed by the Creator for it.

I wrote this post in 2012. As of August 2021, a YouTube channel once again promoted this "After The Ball..." conspiracy theory. It got 10k views in 2 days.

Sometimes I'm asked the question; "Since a homosexual union (homosexuality) doesn't break the Royal Law of love or is a transgression against another, the case you make, why can't a brother marry a sister (incest) since that too doesn't break either one also?"

I think this was asked of me in the comment section of one of my postings, but for some reason I wasn't getting the question.
First, incest was permissible from the time of Genesis between Adam and Eve's sons and daughters. Incest unions were also committed by several Bible Patriarchs. It was only stopped when the Leviticus prohibitions stopped it, Now the question is why? It really is apples and oranges with homosexuality and incest in Leviticus because the incest coupling of relatives is specifically named and prohibited across the board with men and women in Leviticus while homosexuality is only mentioned in the context of Moloch worship and in acts of male anal intercourse ("lyings of a woman"). Granted, an incest coupling between two mutually accepting relatives doesn't break the Royal Law or is a transgression against another, but I believe something else comes into play here with why these unions are prohibited all of a sudden. God foresaw the corruption of our DNA before we understood what DNA was and other corrupting influences in our physical bodies. Christian writers Bert Thompson and Trevor Major wrote this that I think sums it up nicely; "There was no need for strict laws on marriage partners in the early Patriarchal Age and for at least one good reason: during this time, man was in a relatively pure state, at least physically, having left not long before the perfect condition in which he was created and the Garden that had sustained his life...No harmful genetic traits had emerged at this point that could have been expressed in the children of closely related partners. However, after many generations, and especially after the Noahic Flood (Genesis 6-9), solar and cosmic radiation, chemical and viral mutagens, and DNA replication errors, led to the multiplication of genetic disorders. God protected His people by instituting strict laws against incestuous marriages in the eighteenth chapter of Leviticus. Laws regarding incest were given only during the Mosaic dispensation. Those living prior to this period or since this age ended (Colossians 2:14) have not been bound by its laws on incest anymore than we are bound by other Mosaic mandates That said, since more genetic disorders have arisen in the world population since the time of Moses,...it is even more important to avoid marrying a close relative. Christianity thus far has ensured that such rules have been carried forward into modern laws in the Western world."

This guy is also an Evangelical Christian, has a blog like I do, grew up in the San Fernando Valley like I did AND he has a catering business for gay-affirming Christian events. How did I miss out on this when I'm just like him and my thing is food? Did you see that table setting? Raw almonds and potpourri in vases? I bet the chairs are white birch and the Southern peach lemonade drinks is out of this world.

Best sermon title ever.
Worst sermon title ever

One thing that always struck me as weird is how Christians always feel like Judaism is a religion we have to keep going to. Keep in mind that when you quote Leviticus on homosexuality, your quoting a religion that believe there was no Original Sin, so there was no need of a Savior to bring man back up to God with a sacrifice of His son for our sins, the very bedrock of our religion. They think the trinity is us worshiping 3 Gods, and believe Jesus was a big phony Messiah and blasphemer today like they did then. The Scribes didn't even believe in an afterlife. 
This is a religion you want to go to for spiritual advice as a Jesus believer? Paul himself says to no follow Jewish precepts in Titus 1:14. Judaism should be nothing to a believer in respect to their walk of faith, just like their proscriptions isn't a list for us we have to check twice. Judaism is a narrative of creation, lineage of how Jesus came to us, works of the miraculous from God the Father, fascinating stories of the prophets, and many practical life lessons that you find in other religions, but that should be the end of it for us (their styles of Biblical language is also insightful). But unless you're a convert to Judaism, they scratch their heads wondering why you want to go to their religion for anything. It's their party you were never invited to, but you pushed your way as an unwanted guest anyway. Why do you think Paul, the Jewish Pharisee, skipped the middle man (Judaism) and went straight to the salvation message? I think it's silly when Christians need to say 'shalom' or the name of Jesus in Hebrew (one pastor even wears tzitzits) with what they believe will somehow bring them closer to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Moses. Why stop there? Why don't Christians sleep in a sukkah during Sukkot or wear a yarmulke along with the other countless practices of the Jews? Jesus is the whole package. You don't need Jewish trappings, observances, lingo or anything kosher. Christianity isn't a continuation of Judaism, it was the end of it. 

The Jewish people will always be the apple of God's eye, He will always keep His promises to them and He will work in and through them until this world ends, but God deals with us separately with separate promises. We are the second God came for, not the first. We are that sheep in another fold. Their promises aren't our promises and our promises aren't theirs even though we are both loved and cared for by the same God. We are the VIP guests of the groom at the Marriage Feast of the Lamb, not the Bride. 

I see Cameron in the comments section of my James White/Romans 1 post is gone. Probably fell in one of my trap doors that are around here. I do give the kid credit for having the huevos to follow through in coming to my ranchero after he said he would, but you don't bring bubblegum to a knife fight. From the smile of the guy in the above music vid, he obviously agrees.

I think this one post is bigger than my actual blog. I should do some upgrades and put up some fancy mahogany wood for the walls, hire one of these for outside when my blog visitors get hungry. I'll even have a deep tissue masseuse (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM). Think you'll find that on any other affirming blog? All you'll get over at those other sites are saltless saltine crackers and a 3-hour sermon on the types of governments during the Tribulation period.

I complimented a YouTuber because even though he makes a case against homosexuality and the Bible, he was trying to be, I think, fair by putting links to those who made the case opposite to his. His response to me was calling me a liar by saying I don't know the arguments of those who believe as he does and my compliment was me "gaslighting" him and "seething" while doing it. Now I knew I was dealing an ass and a typical bully when he also makes fun of the hair of the girl who's the target of his video. His schtick is acting like he can't believe what "White Liberals" (he sees this accusation as an insult when he's Caucasian himself) say who are gay-affirming with the Bible with literal bells and whistles in the background of his video. If he isn't mocking someone, he calls them stupid by bragging about how the bachelor's degree he must have just received (his YouTube channel is new) makes him smarter than scholars and theologians that in no way shape or form he's at the level of academically. His bloated and purple fished out of the water ego is something to behold. There's an audacious assholery arrogance to him, that to be honest, I've only seen with Gagnon and his might even top Gagnon's because he sees himself as some kind of second Paul (his description). 
His YouTube video is responding to this infamous Tick Tock. 
Now what he does is look up the word arsenokoite in a Greek concordance (this is another one who can't live without concordances and lexicons) that makes the word 'homosexual' and shows it on screen. (the Tick Tocker says "homosexuality" isn't in the Bible, but I think she just means the WORD homosexuality isn't in the Bible). Now technically what he shows does say "homosexuality," what concordances do I guess (real serious theologians and I don't go to lexicons or concordances like Strong's), I never denied this in the entirety of this blog, but It's the equivalent of him showing the word "murder." Technically it is taking a human life, the very definition of the word, but if your talking about murder, everyone sees the difference between serial killer John Wayne Gacy who took sick glee in torturing and murdering young men for pleasure and a Marine in a war overseas war who kills a suicide bomber before he enters a school. No one can conceivably see these instances of murder as being the same, yet that's exactly what anti-gay proponents like the one I'm talking about here want to do with the word homosexual, not see a distinction. Everyone can see an idolatrous homosexuality that is physically mutilating and horrific in the ancient world that I show in my Romans 1 post is different from a homosexuality of two men who have love at first sight in a Starbucks and commit to a relationship in mutual love later though both, technically, fall under the category of "homosexuality." 
I'm always floored when anti-gay proponents say; "Nope! Homosexuality is homosexuality no matter the type of relationship" when everyone can see the difference between the good and bad (rape) instances of heterosexual acts in the Bible, but told not to see it with acts of homosexuality. 
He makes fun of her when she says Jesus never talked about homosexuality (He didn't. Even when He talks about Sodom or when He uses the word *malakoi* or when He meets the same-sex practicing centurion). He then says Jesus didn't say anything about rape or sex with animals either (notice how people who make this argument always go to these disgusting instances and not instances like masturbation or loving Disco?) as if raping a raccoon was comparable to two men in a relationship. He then quotes Romans 26,27 out of context, typical of a newbie, and brags he knows Greek (the extent of his "knowledge" of Greek is a Greek concordance with an English interlinear). He then admits the word "homosexual" isn't in the Bible, but the "concept" of it was. Like I said before, I don't care if every Bible translation describes gay sex because 1. See what I wrote in the second paragraph and 2. Every single one of those translations goes back to Paul's word *arsenokoitai* I prove can't be a general condemnation of homosexuality even if Paul used Leviticus. He then hee and haws that the Tick Tocker brings up Martin Luther's translation of Leviticus and not the Hebrew of Leviticus when she's only showing one example of how the Hebrew verses were translated, in this case from the father of Protestantism, not knowing that the ancient Jews also went with the understanding of pederasty he's ignorant of. He then goes to the "zakhar' argument and says it can't mean a boy when I clearly show it can. He's either blatantly lying with saying no ancient Hebrew writing made this argument or he's ignorant of the instances. He ends his video with saying don't support this Tick Tocker and blares screeching music!" A crass act this one.

When I was reading just how grievous the sin of slander was, I saw the Bible made this sin uniquely evil. It's so grievous that the Greek word for a slanderer is the same word for "Devil."
So when anti-gay Christians like Albert Mohler or (place your favorite anti-gay Christian writer or speaker *here*) make claims that gays follow some secret plan laid out in the book "After The Ball" or say we are the cause of natural disaster, we choose to be gay, or have some type of agenda to brainwash kids, the Bible literally calls them Devils for speaking these untruths that constitute as slander. Think about it. The Bible itself says these men, known as great leaders in the Body of Christ, are called Devils for slandering the LGBTQ. If I said this off the cuff to a Christian, they'd bust out laughing and say I'm the Devil for even suggesting such a thing, but inconceivable as it might seem, it's the Word of God that says it.

  
A Mormon YouTube channel called "Midnight Mormons" was wondering if they should keep the current name of their channel or change it to something else. I suggested these titles:

"3 AM Mormons. Where's My Car?"

"Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Tablets."

"Mitt Romney's Onlyfans."

"Green Jell-O-Ettes." (Mormons have a thing for green Jell-O).

I hope they take it in good fun, unlike those Atheists, because I'm afraid they'll sick the Angel Moroni on me.

My sister asked me if I could find her a new church in the area. Now, understand she grew up in Baptist churches unlike myself who grew up in the Pentecostal tradition and of course I pointed to an Assembly Of God Church. They don't stifle tongues and interpretations and even though I may have issue with the AoG over homosexuality, I believe they got it right with their "How We Believe" credo. After about two months she tells me that the church has few volunteers to work their feed the hungry outreach in the church parking lot and if Russ and myself wouldn't mind helping out.

So I get my "gay lover" Russ to go with me to give frozen turkeys to the homeless who have no means of cooking them. Now I find myself in my old stomping grounds of the church I left years ago as a boy over their view of homosexuality. Pastor Eric thought we were a Godsend with pushing turkeys and flagging down the homeless who were still wondering what they were going to do with a 28-pound frozen turkey weighing down their shopping cart home, Teavana tea boxes the church had boxes and boxes of for some reason, and bunches of bananas we were giving away with the free turkeys. Everything was going great until Eric asked; "So... is Russ your brother?" While I was rolling out another cart of turkeys. Just so you know, Russ is All-American blonde/blue eyes, so I don't know if he figured out Russ and mine relationship with him wanting me to just come right out and say it? Or maybe he really thought we had different mothers. I tell him he's my partner (I hate the term "husband" because it gives the connotation, I'm the "wife"). It was like there was an inaudible car screeching to a stop. Everything was civil the rest of the morning and I hugged the Mexican couple who were the only other ones helping out with it looking like I was bestowing a big blessing on them (they looked at each other like "Get a load of him?") before we left. Next Sunday my sister is almost in tears saying she no longer feels welcome at the church and forget about Russ and I casting a shadow on the church door ever again.

Russ was furious because the hurt of others turned into in your face anger with him, but I only felt sorry for my sister and regret I told her to go this church. The Church can't hurt me again, that was resolved in me by God's mighty power long ago, but I'm really curious how God will deal with what happened before we hit eternity.

Those who read my blog at any length, know I'm married. I never talk about Russ because this is a blog from a calling and not a couple's blog with my lovable lug. I guess if I did incorporate him more, people will see that you really can be gay and in a committed relationship of genuine love. I can post pics of us playing with our 3 kids (Pepe, Pork and Pam) and eating salad on Instagram.

I did for real have a secular blog years ago and the joke was Russ's face was always blocked in some way, so you never see what he looks like. Russ developed quite a thirsty fan club from what people did see with body shots. But I know that if I start making this more of a coupley blog, it will take away, even if a little, from what I say on the homosexuality and the Bible. So I won't.

I will start talking about Russ more because he does walk with me in my faith every day, but for the sake of what I was called to do here? No fun pics of us picnicking in wet soccer fields with watching the sun rising.

Just so you know? Russ is the same guy in my testimony.

I always believed Chrysostom never wrote on the word arsenokoite for homosexuality, someone stated that he did. So, I wanted to look at this deeper.

This person is getting this from Kevin DeYoung's book refuting John Boswell who said Chrysostom didn't use the word for homosexuality. It doesn't really surprise me if Chrysostom did because he had the most intense hatred for homosexuality (some biographers say it was almost a pathology with him comparing it to murder) than any other church father. He hated Jews almost as much as he hated homosexuals, so that should put his views in perspective. Second, it changes nothing on the word meaning homosexual just because it comes from him, another misogynist/homophobic/anti-Semitic church father. The word he uses isn't even arsenokoitai, but what DeYoung says is the word rsenokotow. I can't find the word (ρσενοκοτοω in the Greek) anywhere and DeYoung is the only one saying this. I checked Chrysostom's homily on 1 Corinthians 6, not there, what IS there is him saying the verses are in the context of sexual excess with using gluttony as the example with no mention of homosexuality. It isn't in his homily on 1 Timothy 1:10 either. Now this is the thing. If he did use the word rsenokotow, that I've somehow missed and would be happy to find, it would still be DeYoung saying Chrysostom is using this word for homosexuality because DeYoung believes the word is referencing homosexuality, so to DeYoung, Chrysostom must believe the same thing (the anti-gay religious wouldn't shut up saying Chrysostom said arsenokoitai/rsenokotow specifies the word for a homosexual if they could, but they don't). DeYoung also states that Chrysostom uses a variation of the word arsenokoite 20 times in various forms (spelling the word 20 different times makes absolutely no sense unless he had multiple strokes), with again, DeYoung saying all these variations of the word written by him has the meaning of a homosexual (I'm going by what DeYoung wrote in his book's footnote with everything here). So where are all these times he writes the word? Chrysostom DOES condemn effeminate men, but he uses the word malakoi for that purpose and not rsenokotow.

Chrysostom biographer Chris De Wet also brings this up; "The problem we face is that Chrysostom rarely discerns between persons engaged in pederasty, same-sex prostitution, or other same-sex relations. Despite their considerable differences, these are all part of the same transgression to Chrysostom."

This alone should be enough to ignore this particular church father on this specific issue.

In the way I write, I like to use as least number of words as possible to get to what I'm saying (I didn't know this until someone pointed it out to me). It's like I'm taking filler words out that aren't necessary, but at the cost of clarity to my readers. Now people who have a problem with my views use that as an excuse to say they don't understand what I'm trying to say. They use this as an out for them with not engaging my points even though the other posters in the comments had no problem with comprehending what I'm saying in my sentences. When I ask them why my words are causing then so much "deep confusion' for them? All of a sudden, they understand me just fine because otherwise they look dense.

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Someone wrote these sources to say 'arsenokoitai' means a homosexual; "Nestle-Aland translations, the Syriac Peshitta, and "The Source New Testament" by Dr. Ann Nyland."

My response: Nestle-Aland rejects the Masoretic, Syriac Peshitta is a corruption of the Masoretic, and I don't know why this person is bringing up Nyland when she wrote the gay friendly; "New Testament For Lesbians, Gays, Bi, And Transgender: With Extensive Notes On Greek Word Meaning And Context."

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Certain exchanges stick with you. That was the case with Nick in the comments of this post. One of my favorite movies is "Chungking Express" from Wong Kar Wai.

Happy Late Birthday Nick.

I stumbled on an affirming ex/still is/who knows? Evangelical pastor named Mike Maeshiro. At first he sounded legit with saying:

"I spent most of my life saying that I was “same-sex attracted” or that I “struggled with my sexuality.” I grew up in the Evangelical church, started out Baptist, became non-denominational, and eventually landed in the charismatic movement. I wasn’t committed to any of these forms of Christianity, they merely served as context for me to wrestle through the supernatural encounters I was experiencing "with the Holy Spirit. I’ve always been a very spiritual person, sensitive to spiritual influences and atmospheres. I discovered knowing the Bible and living a spirit-led life were two very different things. I was told at a young age that gay people were going to hell. I didn’t realize there was a whole world of Queer theology out there. It takes a lot to go against your religious tradition. It was the voice of God that inspired me to challenge what I was told the “Word of God” said. There are a lot of hurting people in our world who have questions about their gender, sexual orientation, their natural desires, and if they can belong in the family of God. As a spirit-filled follower of Jesus, I have come to definitively understand that God loves and accepts gay people exactly the way they are, with no caveats or conditions."

So I looked into him. When he's talking about a "Spirit-led life," I wondered what Spirit he's actually living for after I was done listening to him. The Word of God seems non-existent to him and he says that we can tap into the spirit world seemingly without Christ, that just a knowledge of the spiritual world will help you get what you want out of it if you know how to play it like it's a hustle. Turning the spirit world into a "friends with benefits" kind of deal. He also said that his spiritual discernment gave him all kinds of annoyances as a child, Even going is far as spirits telling him if the adults around him were lying. I thought of Acts 16:16-18.

The fact he's big in social medias is no surprise when he says some Christians are "seers" and "sensitives" of the spiritual realm that of course will make them feel more special than others. This is not Biblical, it's just new age gumbo packaged to Christians.

Anything that takes the focus away from Christ and into the spiritual realm as its own thing? Is false. This is not the Holy Spirit. If you have doctrines about Angels or are making videos of how to speak in tongues? This is not the Holy Spirit. If you think God gives you glimpses of Heaven or Hell? You are no longer living by faith, but by sight.

I hate that this guy is affirming because he corrupts my message that is Biblically based, him mixing lies with Biblical truth to those who are hurting and will be susceptible to his Godless message.

This should also tell you again that I just don't go only after the anti-gay religious, I'll also go after you if what I discern is spiritual evil or doctrinal heresy even if you are affirming of homosexuality with the Bible.

This post is buried deep in my blog and can easily be missed.

It's about time for a break from writing.

"Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

- Gal. 4:16, 2 Tim. 2:15.

It's weird how when I take a break from blogging. it's only then people write me. I wrote about Joe Dallas and Chris Yuan* years ago and it's only now I was contacted by both. All Joe had to say was; "I've been called many things, but this is the first time I've been called smarmy." Chris is a drama that's still playing out as we speak.

Later...

As predicted, Chris gave me the line of; "My facts with what the Bible says -vs- your feelings" because that's all he knows what to say to those who don't agree with him. I told him I make my case from the Bible being the inerrant Word of God and not by "feelings." I told him that maybe he should actually read my blog first before jumping to assumptions about me. I also pointed him to the post I wrote on him. He told me he never said he was an "ex-gay" (I show on his post that isn't true), and he's still going with the wounded puppy line he's famous for of; "I'm just trying to figure all this out in a cold and dank world." I pointed to how he now speaks to his audiences with giving bogus facts on homosexuality and how that no longer makes him the babe in the woods he claims to be.

Now let me enjoy my break in peace and believe I'm sailing off the coast of Mexico with my shirtless man drinking out of coconuts.

*Chris contacting wasn't out of the blue. I was invited to be interviewed for a podcast on YouTube. Checking out some of the episodes, I saw he had a few ex-gays as guests, Chris being the latest. I told him I didn't want to be associated with his program and that prompted Chris to respond to me. I bet he's sorry he did.

RQC

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