RE: rumor control

[<brad@brad.org>]

Doug:

Does that mean that if a Christian happens to be a practicing homosexual
then they should be put to death by stoning?  Or do you feel that it is
impossible for a practicing homosexual to be a Christian?

Brad Neuman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Jones [mailto:credenda@moscow.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:39 PM
> To: 'Vision 20/20'
> Cc: DonaldH675@aol.com
> Subject: RE: rumor control
> 
> 
> Melynda Huskey writes: 
> 
> > Is execution the ultimate goal for those of us who don't 
> accept Doug's 
> > exhortation to "abandon fruitlessness?"
> > 
> 
> I have to say that it's really always interesting to hear 
> from Melynda Huskey; I sincerely appreciate her contributions. 
> 
> As for the above quote, the most appropriate biblical response is St.
> Paul's: "For what have I to do with judging those also who 
> are outside? Do you not judge those who are inside?" (1 
> Corinthians 5:12). In other words, why should I care 
> judicially/politically about what non-Christians do on their 
> own time? I'm only concerned about those covenanted to 
> Christ, those baptized, and biblical law focuses on them too.
> 
> If non-Christians want to abort their children or commit 
> almost any infamy privately, then I think they should be free 
> to do that. Sin hunts itself down. They can face their maker 
> on His time. Civil laws are impotent for real change. 
> Christians will proclaim warnings, but only moderns put their 
> faith in legal constraints. The world doesn't run by politics 
> but by grace.
> 
> Doug Jones
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