Lisa wrote:
...how they engage with gay people and whether there is a better way than whipping them with nettles.

Lisa wrote:
Love it when people quote rom Enoch, I think that says something loud and clear.
He who has ears to hear....

Or do you not think that Jude was writing scripture inspired by God, when he quoted from Enoch?

A bit of testimony- when I was 17 I had a best friend and I loved her ( not in a sexual sense but in a person to person sense) and we went everywhere together. She was not gay and neither am I. Well, because we spent so much time together my patents added two and two together and made five- we were accused of being in a lesbian relationship ( it was complicated by the fact that I was secretly seeing her brother). My patents were vile, and at one point my father beat me up and chucked me out ( it was Christmas morning). You know that damaged our relationship and it caused hatred....I can understand how gay people can become bitter. I don't condone this gay persecution of Christians thing but I would like to challenge folk to really pray about how they engage with gay people and whether there is a better way than whipping them with nettles.

Mike wrote:
Gay pride parades by their very existence are Christ-bashing events. Perhaps strategically Christians should take a different stance and distance themselves from the Christ-bashing crowd.

Lisa wrote:
I dunno and can't comment mike- I never been to a gay pride event ???

Lisa wrote:
Russian orthodox church ( I assume) protesting against homosexuals. Hmmm- satans agent provocateurs....I think strategically Christians must take a different stance and distance themselves from the gay bashing crowd. Whipping people with nettles is so not the way forward IMHO !!!

Mike wrote:
True. Muslims wait till their babies grow up and bring the family dishonor, either by getting raped or converting to Christ, then they restore honor in the family way.

SteveR wrote:
Its difficult to forcast in what form Sharia will coexist alongside contemporary western European culture as the Islamic population grows. However one shouldnt underestimate the mohammedans, secular humanists kill their babies, Muslims dont.

Rufus wrote:
At first consideration, I thought maybe this was an article about Atlanta rather than Tbilisi. When the article started out with "Thousands of anti-gay protesters..." I should have known this was nowhere in America. If the choice is between folks threatening to lash with stinging nettle or folks not doing a thing, I'm hard pressed to say which I would prefer. I would prefer though, the next time there is a sodomite pride parade in an American city 1/2 of 1% of the professed Christians in that city go lift a banner for the Lord and preach against it.

this is what the men of old used to do, protect their neighborhoods and villages from outsiders that had come to destroy their way of life.

and besides a few scuffles that we know little about, it was done peacefully...

in the west the centralized system dictates to the man what he will be.

SteveR wrote:
righthandoffellowship?
No special revelation so you rely on divisiveness & a perfidious nature
Psalms 144:11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood:

Lisa wrote:
Russian orthodox church ( I assume) protesting against homosexuals. Hmmm- satans agent provocateurs....I think strategically Christians must take a different stance and distance themselves from the gay bashing crowd. Whipping people with nettles is so not the way forward IMHO !!!