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Monday, March 03, 2008
Robert Knight :: Townhall.com Columnist
Clueless in Obama Nation
by Robert Knight
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And lest reporters buy the current “gay theology” fad of attributing Sodom’s sin to mere “inhospitality,” here’s an obscure passage from the Book of Jude: “Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” (Jude 7)

Sen. Obama pulled the classic straw man dodge of attacking the one passage in Romans as if this were the only thing the Bible had to say about homosexuality. He also cited the Sermon on the Mount, of course, which the senator has discovered is a handy gay rights manual.

Think about this for a minute. This is about a lot more than the homosexual issue, as serious as that is. If Sen. Obama is right, it means that Moses, plus all Christian leaders over the last 20 centuries until very recently, have all been wrong, as are all the world’s other major religions. Now that’s news.

The media may be unwilling to cover this, however, for one of two reasons.

1) They don’t think it’s a story because, they, too, have had a special revelation from God that everybody until today has been wrong. Or,

2) They know that most Americans believe in God and that information like Obama’s officially promoting sin as a civil right might be a little too interesting to some of them.

Either way, it’s unlikely that we’ll see some space or airtime for this story instead of the latest pictures of women fainting and grown men getting goose bumps at Obama rallies.

The Times, like Katie Couric and company, ain’t a changing. At least, not over some obscure Bible passages.

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Robert Knight is a Senior Writer/Correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries and a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union.
 
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Yes. Jesus fed them and preached the gospel of repentance to them.

The problem with theological liberalism's approach generally and the social gospel particularly is they think the "preach the gospel" part is optional. Jesus didn't.

We've had this argument before but Jesus NEVER advocated that the state take someone's property and give it to someone else. He did not tell the rich young "RULER" to go and tax the rich and distribute it to the poor. Ostensibly, the "ruler" could have done precisely that. He told him to sell his own property. Nowhere in the NT or in the teachings of Christ is there anything close to a suggestion of using or even cooperating with the secular state in matters of charity or works.

"i am not going to give you examples where churches denounce gov't efforts cause as you know i believe it is part of Gods work to move the government to assist churhces in ministering to those in need."

I know you and like you so please don't take this wrong... but since you are ascribing an action to God, can you cite your biblical case for it?

I am pretty sure I can present a very good case that God would not do something that would serve to numb people to their spiritual needs or specifically to protect them from the consequences of their sinful choices absent repentance.

John 6 provides a good case study. Jesus fed the masses. They returned the next day for some more free fish... He gave them a gospel message but refused to feed them. Christ would not feed them when that was an inhibitor to the gospel... many went away and didn't follow him any more.
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