by Jim » Sun Oct 16, 2016 8:44 am
The delicious irony is now unfolding vis-a-vis the unrelenting ridicule in this forum of the SBC “fundamentalist takeover,” featuring its lack of sensitivity for most everything and its non-use of LOVE with respect to specific groups, as well as (gasp) women, who nevertheless have been satisfied enough to stay the course. The SBC's numbers, while slightly falling, as is the case with most denominations, have remained fairly stable, while the “mainline” denominations are dying on the vine. While actual conservatives (not fundamentalists) have worked their will in the SBC, resulting in a number of disgruntled split-groups (mine among them), the elite, self-appointed spiritual intellectuals (denominational pooh-bahs and a multitude of pastors) have driven the mainliners into creedal chaos and confiscated the properties of individual churches (think Episcopalian, for instance) that are the result of blood, sweat and tears of their congregants, the actual owners, who have been willingly expelled. This is the result of liberal theology, a euphemism for the “anything goes” concept having as its god political correctness and its aim the greatest effort possible to reflect, not affect, the culture. The term LOVE is the constant mantra, with notice not taken of the fact that Jesus physically thrashed people in the temple and told his disciples to get swords even if having to sell clothing to do so. He called HIS church leaders rotten tombs, their minds stinking bastions of nothingness. I did not bring up the LGBTQ term in this thread, but a mod-lib did. This group is practically worshiped now, a sure sign of the decadence that will **** the nation absent an enormous revival. Ministers of conscience are now faced with having to spit in God's face and perform weddings of two men, sanctioning behavior condemned biblically as unnatural, certainly not sexual unless one considers anal/oral sex as God's plan for procreation. Is it too big a stretch to simply encourage practicing members of the LGBTQ gang, as well as practicing adulterers, to form their own churches rather than contaminate those attempting to please God? In other words, TOUGH LOVE, that of Christ. The danger of dominionism has little to do with the Grahams but with the arrogant denominational hierarchies leading the nation to oblivion, Plato-style.