Featured Pope Sanctions Gay Clergy!

....but they would need an income! Bob are you mad! ( rofl)

 

Believe it or not, I agree with you to a certain degree. Child molesters are scum in society in general, and no punishment is good enough for them. To put these monsters in a position of leadership in the Christian community is the height of evil and a direct slap in the face to a Holy God and His work.

I do not think it does any good to differ based on denominations which group, whether it be Baptist, Catholic, or Presbyterian handles the situation better or worse. We should all as Christians be vigilant and united in ridding ourselves of these sick individuals. Some of the difference in how it is handled between the Catholic and Baptist church is due to the RCC being one organization, and the Baptist faith being a collection of local, autonomous churches.

This is one issue there should be no arguing over.

 

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Thats correct

And that group is held in contempt by the other 99% of the baptists

Nice try

 

1 Corinthians 2:15 The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

 

Er...no - major category alert. A homosexual is someone who is sexually attracted to a member of the same sex. No sin in that. The sin is in acting it out by engaging in same-sex acts. The Pope rightly condemns the latter but accepted the former. This is scarcely news; most evangelical Christians do the same.

What's with the straw man?

 

A man doesn't have to commit any homosexual acts to be labelled gay. How many times to I have to sleep with a woman before you classify me as heterosexual?

 

Since Catholic Clergy is asexual and does not marry, what difference does it make? They are not suppose to be involved in any type of sexual relationship.

I really do wish though, that the Pope would come out on his balcony in a leopard skin speedo.

 

Do you mean punishment in this life or eternal punishment. I ask because there are those child molesters who have been forgiven in Christ.

 

Not sure if you can hang the Pope simply because he is open to forgiving sinners.

I have other complaints about the RCC in that regard - but that is not one of them.

 

Yep. Newsflash though - there's this nasty thing called The Fall which has messed up the way God intended things to be. So now we have to deal with things like death, disease, people being nasty to each other and - yes - sinful sexual urges.

I don't justify the acts at all. But a celibate individual with the temptation of same-sex attraction (what everyone else apart from you apparently calls a 'homosexual') who nevertheless, due to his/her repentance and faith in Jesus Christ doesn't act on those urges (or at least does their darnedest not to - which one of us hasn't fallen into temptation to sin from time to time?) is as deserving of forgiveness and salvation as you or I. That doesn't mean that s/he necessarily ceases to have those urges, anymore than someone in a wheelchair who comes to faith in Christ automatically leaps up and dances a polka (sometimes people are healed, more often they are not), but they are as saved as you or I.

That's what the Pope was saying and I can find nothing wrong in that statement.

 

But that's not what we're talking about here. Acts can be sins, temptations and tendencies are not.

 

If so..considering that this is the Roman catholic cult...it wouldnt surprise me one bit.

Par for the course.

 

....ah no he did NOT, the media fell upon it with gusto and twisted the words. The clergy take a VOW of celibacy which is NOT for wimps I might add.

To break the vow is a thing I woupd not want to deal with at Judgement Day!

Thank you for calling the RCC a cult, because it is of course....the head of the cult is the Lord Jesus Christ and I am happy to be a cultist of such a One. God bless you for your kindness!

 

We're all born in sin. A homosexual is no different in that respect. We all have tendencies to sin - how many times have you felt anger in your heart to another person?

 

If the person making the vow is a child of God having been washed in the blood of the Lamb, that person will not need to deal with any sin come Judgment Day, breaking a vow would be considered a sin. This is the message from the Jesus Christ of the Holy Scriptures.

Romans 8......"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit........"