Same Means of Salvation

As of Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Pilot published two articles (March 21 and April 22) opposing Amendment One, the first by professor Cochran of Meredith College, the other by Tom Goergen, a local resident. Both wrote against the amendment using their interpretation of the Bible.

Both indicated that the Bible clearly calls homosexuality an abomination, but explained that by stating that the Bible was written by men lacking modern “scientific” knowledge.

My Bible tells me that God was the author who used men moved by the Holy Spirit to do the actual writing.

Proof of that fact is that a large part of the Bible contains prophesy that was fulfilled hundreds of years subsequent to its writing.

Would not God know more about homosexuality than modern “scientists”?

Goergen says Jesus didn’t have to die to save us. My Bible tells me that Jesus was the lamb of God slain before the foundation of the world in God’s planning. God’s wrath against sin caused him to establish death as the penalty for sin, which included physical death and the second death, permanent separation from God.

God is also a God of love, which caused him to provide a way for man to avoid the penalty for sin. That plan was to have his son become a man and die in the place of the sinner. All who put their faith in Christ are saved from that second death and receive the righteousness of Christ, enabling them to live in heaven without sin.

Christ then was “set forth as a propitiation” in that God didn’t void the penalty for sin as Christ paid that penalty.

My sins may be more numerous and worse than those of the homosexual person, but God offers all of us the same means to receive his righteousness.

Gene Jacobs

Pinehurst

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link2eternity 1 year ago

Touche' Mr. Jacobs,

"What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander" at the following link in the "Readers Blog."

This proposed "science" digs a deep hole for those who argue it as such.

What's good for the Goose, is good for the Gander by link2eternity

Tony

Matt_Woodruff 1 year ago

What about the stoning of adulterers and owning of slaves parts?

JD 1 year ago

Let's not pick and choose with Leviticus. Many parts of it are greatly ignored anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZSlRdrzs4w

GoldenDreams 1 year ago

Gene, I believe that Christ died for my sins, too. I accept Him as my Savior. This may surprise you, but I know quite a few Christians voting no on this amendment, including me. They may not say it in church, but that's what they're doing. Why? Because they are balancing the Bible against the Constitution and deciding that all humans deserve equal rights. I work with many poor families and I don't want their rights taken away because Mom and Dad aren't married. They too are in families but maybe not married ones. Let God be the judge. Let us be as gracious and kind as we can be.

link2eternity 1 year ago

Hello GoldenDreams,

Just a few questions and thoughts.

Do you maintain the same on abortion; namely that the constitution gives teh woman the "right" to abort her child?

Who decides what it ultimately wrong? God? The Constitution? What some deem "constitutional" may still be extremely out of sync with what the Bible says, you know.

Perhaps that is what's wrong with modern Christianity. We either place other documents alongside or above the very document, The Bible, we say is God's word. Voting against an amendment that attempts to honor and protect the marital divine paradigm is equivalent to favoring gay marriage.

"If I stand for every biblical truth except that one which is currently under attack, I must be deemed a coward." Can't remember who said it, but it applies to all believers of all times who claim submission to the Bible.

Tony (link2eternity)

GroundTroops 1 year ago

May 8 the people will decide and that is what we will have to live with. I don't understand all of the negative comments either way. The only way we will know who has it right is after we die. If you die and you are only in a hole in the ground then God isn't real. If you die and find yourself in a terrible tormented place or in a heavenly place then God is real. The way I see it is simple. If I trust in God and follow His teachings, and believe in my heart that God raised his son from the dead so I could be saved and then I die and it was all untrue. What have I lost? But if you die without believing on His name and find out it was all true. What have you lost? Just thinking out loud. I will vote for the marriage amendment, but I'm not going to hate on those who don't. There is a story in God's word where we are told to let the wheat and the tares grow side by side. God tells us that it is His responsibility to seperate them. So go vote as you please and we can still be friends, but in the end God will judge us all.