Everards organisational involvement, takes him to strange places. Did you as a professing Christian, not have a conscience about this bit of hypocrisy Everard?

https://uniting.org/about-uniting/newsroom/mardi-gras-2016

When it is written in your Christian handbook by Saint Paul:

“But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person (1 Corinthians 5:11).”

You berate the Anglican Church, for opposing homosexuality and gay marriage, and donating money towards a no vote, opposition which of itself, promotes good Christian ethics and a purity of soul, as St Paul demands of the Church.

It is inexcusable to represent the God of the Christian, in a debauched pagan ceremony, the Gay and lesbian Mardi Gras. A parade that celebrates all of the evils, a revered Christian saint warned against becoming involved with.

You and your organisation, have fallen from grace Everard. There is no credibility in anything you say. You have lost it

Before I comment on the article, allow me to applaud Progressive Pat:

Television has butchered the family and computers and other electronic gadgets finished the job.

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Dear Everald,

«They intend to get divorced, but still live together»

No, they do not intend to get divorced - only to pretend to divorce in the legal sense. Good on them!

«the piece of paper we signed on our wedding day has had nothing whatsoever to do with us living happily together for 60 years, it is a treasured document that we are not going to tear up. It is a symbol of our commitment»

That piece of paper has nothing to do with your marriage: you should be proud of your long marriage and commitment, but ashamed of holding onto that document which symbolises subservience to the evil secular state.

Yes, commitment is generally an excellent thing - but commitment to what? Your commitment to God is not in question, nor is your commitment to your wife, but that third commitment... Do I need to remind you that one cannot serve two masters?!

Jesus Christ was never a nationalist. Sooner or later you will need to choose between Christianity and nationalism.

A revered Christian Saint had an opinion that reflected the ethnic culture he sprang from? So what?

What sayth revered Saint Joan of Arc?

Well, they those holier than thou, Judge everyone else but me, Christians burnt her at the stake, for the power of prophesy!

And Christian Popes rode at the head of mass murdering armies to put to the sword anyone who dared disagree with their world view!

Which included a flat earth at the literal centre of the universe, which as they knew to a literal man, revolved around a six thousand year old planet earth?

Is that what passes for reverence for totally infallible views of the ancients DD?

Moreover, if your Master walked among you today, but remained incognito, with a personal predilection for the exclusive company of men and a kind and gentle nature?

You DD, would probably be first in a conga line of self confessed alleged Christians, ready to condemn him for the God given genes that made him the man he was!

It may be hard for the brainwashed from birth, fundamental fanatics to accept? That not only have the majority disagreed with them.

But aren't self appointed judges on the morals of others, but unlike DD, runner and other self identifying homophobes? Think that what the master said and condemned, holds far more weight than that of a self appointed, dark age cleric, held up as a revered Saint!

Rather than a simple man simply reflecting conventional wisdom that had so held for thousands of years!

We are entering the age of enlightenment, which the resident homophobes will need to be dragged kicking and screaming into, as they obfuscate about the one human currently being eaten every three months by a ravenous crocodile.

Arguably that one human being must be getting thoroughly sick of being repeatedly munched for lunch, by now?
Alan B.

To Everald.

You've gotten many responses from both Christian and nonchristian posters that criticize that your points aren't what Jesus would stand beside. Where you are right is that we need to love one another, where you're wrong is to support eachother's sins.

I want you to consider as Jesus as our Savior, our Lord, and the Son of God. Though I agree He is our mentor, He is much more then that. In our journeys of being Christian, there are going to be times where people will try to allievate our burden to both stand up against sin, and also love our neighbor. They do this by choosing to stand against sin and hate a sinner, or by lovingly accept a sinner and encourage them in their sins.

Don't fall into this trap. Both sucide and active homosexuality are called out as sin and wrong within the bible. Jesus does not correct these assertions, so neither should we.

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The question comes to me of how do we love someone in sin, (because we all have our battles with sin), while standing against the sin? The answers will largely depend on the sitution, but one of the teachings, (as hard as it is to do) is to let the person go, and have nothing to do with them.

This is so hard to do, but many loving parents and family have been given this exact advice with regard to a family member who is hooked on drugs. Told that if they don't let the person go they are actually enabling that person to continue in the addiction.

If the sin is bad enough, and the person in it refuses to turn away from it, the hardest and last step is to stop fighting them about it and leave them in their sin. Then of course hope and pray for their sake.

I'm sure there are other ways to love eachother, and still stand against a sin. We should seek out these things instead of splitting Jesus's teachings apart and choosing to either stand against homosexuality, or to love them.

As for suicide. Even in terminally illness, we should show kindness to the person, but not to help them die.

It would appear that Everald is incapable of independent thought, as everything he says seems to be scripted directly from the latest ALP talking points.