Hi again Pseudonym,

Our descendents will indeed look back. As we do today.

What we see through history are countless examples of religious communities just getting things disastrously wrong.

The OT prophets were continually calling God’s people back to obedience. The Scribes and Pharisees knew Scripture off by heart but were woefully astray in understanding God’s heart and mind.

Saint Paul and Saint Peter got some important things seriously wrong and were forced into painful repentance.

Every generation since has had to examine its teaching and practice to see where these are erroneous. All churches - Protestant, Roman Catholic and Orthodox - persecuted for blasphemy astronomers who taught that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

For centuries the Church failed to teach the essentials of salvation by faith in Christ alone.

Thousands of unfortunates with mental illnesses were tortured or killed for demon possession.

Pope Zacharius opposed the search for the Antipodes, describing it as “a perverse and iniquitous doctrine”.

Scholars have only recently accepted that Moses did not personally write the Pentateuch and that various other books attributed to particular prophets had different authorship, often multiple contributors. In most churches, those who first made these observations were persecuted. Alfred Loisy was excommunicated for teaching that the Genesis creation stories were not literal history.

All denominations have failed in the past with regard to slavery, the subjugation of the black races, accepting the infinite universe, equality of women, inter-racial marriage and issues of economic justice.

Tragically, the Body of Christ throughout history has been slow to hear the Holy Spirit’s correctives to erroneous theology and praxis brought via Biblical and other scholars.

On same-sex unions, many churches are now discovering that texts traditionally used to condemn all homosexual behaviour really address only abusive acts - rape, paedophilia, adultery, prostitution and pagan ritual worship.

It seems there is a challenge to each generation to rediscover Biblical truth. Accepting that gay orientation is in fact a normal, natural, God-given variation in human sexuality seems to be ours.

There are, indeed, false prophets, Pseudonym. But Scripture rightly understood reveals who they are.

Alan

'Regarding the Kill the gays bill in Uganda, Runner, there are some Australian Evangelicals who support this. But as the article suggests and the link confirms, it is strongest in the USA.'

I suspect their are far more 'gays'that would support the killing of many Christians throughout the world than çhristians wanting to kill 'gays'. Besides the womb is the most dangerous place to be in the world today.

runner - is there any evidence at all for what you say, or are you just making this poisonous stuff up

@Alan "I suspect their are far more 'gays' that would support the killing of many Christians throughout the world than çhristians wanting to kill 'gays'"

Name two.

^ @Runner (not @Alan, sry)

Runner there is counselling available under the medicare system, as you are obviously in need of realising and ridding yourself, of what is giving you such bitterness and hatred towards others.