beads wrote:Wait, right there. It was not my interpretation of what they believe. It was yours. I asked you if they believe homosexuality is a sin, and you said that they don’t. So, if we are working from anyone’s interpretation here, it’s yours.
So what you are saying is that if some man starts a "Christian" church that advocates adultery as a viable alternate lifestyle and ignores what Scripture teaches concerning adultery by teaching adultery is not a sin then adultery is no longer a sin? Now that is an interesting thought.
What you call my interpretation of gay theology is based on years of advocating gay theology as well as OSAS in order to justify living an openly gay life. After all since I was saved at age 10 (years before I realized I was gay) then I could ignore all the Scriptures that state the immoral and abominable will spend eternity in the lake of fire since those verses did not apply to me because I erroneously believed that homosexuality is not a sin. What is fascinating about your response is you are willing to call evil good in order to stand on OSAS. Gay theology advocates the a man can have a sexual relationship with another man and still be saved, which is teaching evil is good, which is not my interpretation of gay theology it is the fact of gay theology, which is nothing more than a lie from Satan.
So you say one is saved once they are baptized by the Holy Spirit, which is not what the Bible teaches.
Romans 10:8-10
8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart"-- that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, 9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved; 10 for with the heart man believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. NAS
Colossians 1:9-15
9 For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for the attaining of all steadfastness and patience; joyously 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. 13 For He delivered us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. 15 And He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation. NAS
Now lets take a look at one of Jesus' parables:
John 15:1-6
15:1 "I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2 "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it, that it may bear more fruit. 3 "You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit; for apart from Me you can do nothing. 6 "If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. NAS
Who are the branches that are taken away and burned? If it is your contention these branches were never saved in the first place how were they ever part of the vine that is Christ?