Born Again Christian; Biblical Fundamentalist, Received Text-KJV, Dispensational
Saturday, February 29, 2020
I support securing our borders and free trade
The one thing I disagree the most with President Trump over is trade and Globalization.
I agree with his tax cuts, deregulation and securing the border. I agree free countries with equal rights under the law should not have to give up their sovereignty to the UN in the process of having peaceful relations with other countries.
Globalization of the economy is one non-UN way of working towards a world of peaceful relations. Trump being against both Governmental Globalism, but, also anti Economic Globalization is oxymoronic as he is stopping one of the best non-global government/UN means of having peaceful neighbors while keeping national sovereignty. I am also in favor of exporting freedom as part of Globalization. Exporting the rights to own and trade property and all the other rights of a free country as part of the Economic Globalization process.
I am Pro-Global Capitalism and Equality under the law. However, I am also in favor of reforming the UN to remove the corruption and stopping the obstruction of free countries freedoms.
I agree with his tax cuts, deregulation and securing the border. I agree free countries with equal rights under the law should not have to give up their sovereignty to the UN in the process of having peaceful relations with other countries.
Globalization of the economy is one non-UN way of working towards a world of peaceful relations. Trump being against both Governmental Globalism, but, also anti Economic Globalization is oxymoronic as he is stopping one of the best non-global government/UN means of having peaceful neighbors while keeping national sovereignty. I am also in favor of exporting freedom as part of Globalization. Exporting the rights to own and trade property and all the other rights of a free country as part of the Economic Globalization process.
I am Pro-Global Capitalism and Equality under the law. However, I am also in favor of reforming the UN to remove the corruption and stopping the obstruction of free countries freedoms.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
The Great Global Warming Swindle - Full Documentary HD
The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered March 8, 2007 on British Channel 4. A documentary, by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the virtually unchallenged consensus that global warming is man-made. A statement from the makers of this film asserts that the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming could very well be "the biggest scam of modern times." According to Martin Durkin the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun. Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Using a comprehensive range of evidence it's claimed that warming over the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a 'little ice age'.
Climate Hustle (archive.org
Climate Hustle reveals the history of climate scares. It examines the science on both sides of the debate, digs into the politics and media hype surrounding the issue. Shows how global warming has become a new religion for alarmists, and explains the impacts the warming agenda will have on people in America and around the world.
Digit Ratio/Gender Non-conformity and sexuality -- A Meta-Analyses of the actual research
There is a word that is often thrown about in our society called "Gaydar." and it is prevalent throughout various areas of science too. It is not just a term bandied about by people that come off as stupid, but, people that seem quite logical as well. They point to studies which claim that all the stereotypes about straight people and gay people are correct. That straight equals being a gender conforming god and gays being gender queer and atypical aberrations from the norm in ways other than their sexual desires.
However, is it really true that Gaydar exists and is it also true that straight people never are gender-non conforming? Oh and does a difference in your ring finger really tell you anything about your orientation? Most people will point to studies mainly by the people associated with Michael J. Bailey and his studies. However, how correct are these studies? Are they consensus building? Are they even scientific or are they quackery? Looking at the Meta-Analyses of the data shows serious holes in the idea that Gaydar is a consistently true phenomenon.
Moreover it shows some serious flaws in the idea of what is manly for men as well. Especially when it comes to activities like dancing. If you look at the studies gay men played game show and performance more than straight boys did as children.. However, there is a serious flaw in all these studies. No straight people are even given a chance to take part in the research. Of course you will have a majority of gay boys and lesbian girls being sissies and tomboys. There is no control sample of straight people in these studies to see how many of them have videos of non-conforming home movies.
If you saw my Moms old photos of me back at her place one of them is me in a very flamboyant coat that has a color in it a mix between purple and pink. Yet, I am straight I am not gay. I both danced when I was younger, was in a play "Twelve Dancing Princesses," and played with guns too. I was the 1 of only 3 boys in a play and was also playing Chris Bond with my toy gun at the same time. As long as there is no control group in any of these studies I call unscientific hogwash on them all. I call them quackery and Michael J. Bailey is himself in denial about the existence of sexual fluidity. He does not even acknowledge male fluidity exists.
Is there any studies on Gaydar related traits that is not by Bailey and what do they show? Well, it shows much more importantly the demographics of actual non-conforming people no matter how small the number. The top tier of people whom had gender non-conforming childhoods are in fact heterosexual as adults.
Not mostly heterosexual, but, self-identified complete heterosexuals are the most to have had moments of various levels of non-conformism in life. This was according to a wonderful study done outside of Bailey's narrative back in 2012. However, there are other ideas out there trying to tell people certain factors tell you what orientation you are. That being your ring to index finger ratio with the length of your ring finger being longer meaning you are more likely straight than not as a man. While supposedly gay men have digits similar to women not straight men. Yet, in meta-analyses shows there is not enough evidence to show any sort of connection.
I think the meta-analyses of non-conformity makes perfect sense. As meta-analyses of orientation identification overtime shows heterosexuality as being the most stable and the most likely to be where people with any sort of same sex play to end up. The two most taken up identities are either mostly straight or completely straight for most men and women by the time they are in their 30's and going into their 40's. This is shown in the studies that took a scientific and objective eye on human sexual orientation. Every single Longitude based tracing of populations done since around 2002ish shows a bisexual or a just curious at one time direction. Lisa Diamond; a very out and proud Lesbian Psychologist for the APA cites this among other things in her research which shows a lack of any real evidence for the biological determinism or existentialist etiology for bisexual or homosexual attractions.
So, it would make sense that most men and women irregardless of behavior or interests to be not gay and to be at least some variant of heterosexual. Only 2-3% of any human population is steadily gay or homosexual over their entire life without change to at least at bisexual identity. People with non-conformism with actual Gender Dysphoria (Transsexualism) is less than even 1% of the population. Most people whom have at some point gone through non-conformism or continue to be non-conforming are Gender Concordant and heterosexual. There is no reason to assume someone is gay just because they act a certain way, talk a certain way or have certain interests.
Gaydar is a false pattern which does not help when dealing with people as individuals. Gaydar should be shoved off as the Pseudio-science it is for it is quackery at its finest.
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http://dc.law.utah.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1023&context=scholarship
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2969161_code835085.pdf?abstractid=2965179&mirid=1
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2969161_code835085.pdf?abstractid=2965179&mirid=1
Christian Universalist VS other forms of Universalism
There is a need for me to clarify somethings about what my views are on the different world religions. The term Universalism is often meant to mean there is no one way to God
This is not what I mean by Universalist, however.
I agree with Scripture and Jesus that he is the only mediator between the Triune God and mankind. I also, however, understand that it teaches universal reconciliation in its original word of God. Jesus cried it was finished with his attonement on the cross. I believe him when he said that death and sin were finished on the cross.
Jesus was victorious and because of his ressurection we all are reconcilled back to the Kingdom of God when we leave this place. Irregardless of whether we believe in the reconciliation or in God even existing upon death as revelations says all of mankind is put under the feet of Jesus. Then delivered to The Father. So, that all whom see Jesus upon leaving this world will be filled with the truth and as in revelations every knee will bow and every toung sing out his praises of their own free will upon seeing the truth. As a result of this purification the inclination to do evil is also removed and we are all in a ressurection version of our body with God in his Kingdom in heavenly places. The resurrection body being purified and timeless returning to prior to the introduction of the evil inclination in whatever your opinion of the pre-fall moment.
There is only one God Yahweh, whom exists in 3 coequal persons of Father, Son and his Holy Spirit/Ghost.
All other God's are false and man made idols and false teachings. They are also adversarial systems of beliefs because they are man made. I do not believe that other paths are demons, but, they are incorrect and man made.
The New Age and New Thought comes from self proclaimed Lucifarians. Not because an actual devil is behind them, but, because they themselves follow a false path of self Godhood. Lucifarian religions are not the same as Satanic, but, they are just as dangerous.
Satanists do not actually believe in Satan they are actually atheists with odd rituals and regalia. However, in place of belief in the supernatural they instead focus on being selfish and hedonism. They also do not believe in good and evil. They borrow the New Ages idea that you create your own reality without literally believing in such. In other words they tend to leave themselves open to follow temptation to do whatever they wish to do.
I do think one should recognize while still in this world what God did for them in destroying death itself and abolishing sin. However, in the end of everything everyone will see they were wrong and repent becoming a believer in Jesus. Either in this life or the one too come. Everyone returns to God eventually in their own time and place. As Jesus said It is Finished.
This is not what I mean by Universalist, however.
I agree with Scripture and Jesus that he is the only mediator between the Triune God and mankind. I also, however, understand that it teaches universal reconciliation in its original word of God. Jesus cried it was finished with his attonement on the cross. I believe him when he said that death and sin were finished on the cross.
Jesus was victorious and because of his ressurection we all are reconcilled back to the Kingdom of God when we leave this place. Irregardless of whether we believe in the reconciliation or in God even existing upon death as revelations says all of mankind is put under the feet of Jesus. Then delivered to The Father. So, that all whom see Jesus upon leaving this world will be filled with the truth and as in revelations every knee will bow and every toung sing out his praises of their own free will upon seeing the truth. As a result of this purification the inclination to do evil is also removed and we are all in a ressurection version of our body with God in his Kingdom in heavenly places. The resurrection body being purified and timeless returning to prior to the introduction of the evil inclination in whatever your opinion of the pre-fall moment.
There is only one God Yahweh, whom exists in 3 coequal persons of Father, Son and his Holy Spirit/Ghost.
All other God's are false and man made idols and false teachings. They are also adversarial systems of beliefs because they are man made. I do not believe that other paths are demons, but, they are incorrect and man made.
The New Age and New Thought comes from self proclaimed Lucifarians. Not because an actual devil is behind them, but, because they themselves follow a false path of self Godhood. Lucifarian religions are not the same as Satanic, but, they are just as dangerous.
Satanists do not actually believe in Satan they are actually atheists with odd rituals and regalia. However, in place of belief in the supernatural they instead focus on being selfish and hedonism. They also do not believe in good and evil. They borrow the New Ages idea that you create your own reality without literally believing in such. In other words they tend to leave themselves open to follow temptation to do whatever they wish to do.
I do think one should recognize while still in this world what God did for them in destroying death itself and abolishing sin. However, in the end of everything everyone will see they were wrong and repent becoming a believer in Jesus. Either in this life or the one too come. Everyone returns to God eventually in their own time and place. As Jesus said It is Finished.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
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Friday, February 21, 2020
What do I believe in? Introduction and creed.
In his Plain Guide to Universalism, the universalist Thomas Wittemore wrote, "The sentiment by which Universalists are distinguished, is this: that at last every individual of the human race shall become holy and happy. This does not comprise the whole of their faith, but, merely that feature of it which is peculiar to them."
I believe in Evangelical Universalism, also called Biblical or Trinitarian Universalism. Evangelical Universalists hold to conservative positions on most theological or doctrinal issues except for the doctrine of hell, in which case they assert universal reconciliation instead of eternal torment. They emphasize the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ for the sins of all humanity as the basis for their Universalism.
We worship one God in trinity and the trinity in unity,
neither blending their persons
nor dividing their essence.
For the person of the Father is a distinct person,
the person of the Son is another,
and that of the Holy Spirit still another.
But the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one,
their glory equal, their majesty coeternal.
What quality the Father has, the Son has, and the Holy Spirit has.
The Father is uncreated,
the Son is uncreated,
the Holy Spirit is uncreated.
The Father is immeasurable,
the Son is immeasurable,
the Holy Spirit is immeasurable.
The Father is eternal,
the Son is eternal,
the Holy Spirit is eternal.
And yet there are not three eternal beings;
there is but one eternal being.
So too there are not three uncreated or immeasurable beings;
there is but one uncreated and immeasurable being.
Similarly, the Father is almighty,
the Son is almighty,
the Holy Spirit is almighty.
Yet there are not three almighty beings;
there is but one almighty being.
Thus the Father is God,
the Son is God,
the Holy Spirit is God.
Yet there are not three gods;
there is but one God.
Thus the Father is Lord,
the Son is Lord,
the Holy Spirit is Lord.
Yet there are not three lords;
there is but one Lord.
Just as Christian truth compels us
to confess each person individually
as both God and Lord,
so Scripture forbids us
to say that there are three gods or lords.
The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten from anyone.
The Son was neither made nor created;
he was begotten from the Father alone.
The Holy Spirit was neither made nor created nor begotten;
he proceeds from the Father and the Son.
Accordingly there is one Father, not three fathers;
there is one Son, not three sons;
there is one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits.
Nothing in this trinity is before or after,
nothing is greater or smaller;
in their entirety the three persons
are coeternal and coequal with each other.
So in everything, as was said earlier,
we worship their trinity in their unity
and their unity in their trinity.
We believe and confess
that our Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son,
is both God and human, equally.
He is God from the essence of the Father,
begotten before time;
and he is human from the essence of his mother,
born in time;
completely God, completely human,
with a rational soul and human flesh;
equal to the Father as regards divinity,
less than the Father as regards humanity.
Although he is God and human,
yet Christ is not two, but one.
He is one, however,
not by his divinity being turned into flesh,
but by God's taking humanity to himself.
He is one,
certainly not by the blending of his essence,
but by the unity of his person.
For just as one human is both rational soul and flesh,
so too the one Christ is both God and human.
He suffered for our salvation;
he arose from the dead;
he ascended to heaven;
he is seated at the Father's right hand
The Scriptures are God's Authoritative, inspired and inherent Word. Per the Gospel Christ was the saviour of all humankind. He will or has drawn all to himself and thus humankind is universally reconciled to God. Through Christ's atonement on the cross.
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
I believe in Evangelical Universalism, also called Biblical or Trinitarian Universalism. Evangelical Universalists hold to conservative positions on most theological or doctrinal issues except for the doctrine of hell, in which case they assert universal reconciliation instead of eternal torment. They emphasize the substitutionary atonement of Jesus Christ for the sins of all humanity as the basis for their Universalism.
We worship one God in trinity and the trinity in unity,
neither blending their persons
nor dividing their essence.
For the person of the Father is a distinct person,
the person of the Son is another,
and that of the Holy Spirit still another.
But the divinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is one,
their glory equal, their majesty coeternal.
What quality the Father has, the Son has, and the Holy Spirit has.
The Father is uncreated,
the Son is uncreated,
the Holy Spirit is uncreated.
The Father is immeasurable,
the Son is immeasurable,
the Holy Spirit is immeasurable.
The Father is eternal,
the Son is eternal,
the Holy Spirit is eternal.
And yet there are not three eternal beings;
there is but one eternal being.
So too there are not three uncreated or immeasurable beings;
there is but one uncreated and immeasurable being.
Similarly, the Father is almighty,
the Son is almighty,
the Holy Spirit is almighty.
Yet there are not three almighty beings;
there is but one almighty being.
Thus the Father is God,
the Son is God,
the Holy Spirit is God.
Yet there are not three gods;
there is but one God.
Thus the Father is Lord,
the Son is Lord,
the Holy Spirit is Lord.
Yet there are not three lords;
there is but one Lord.
Just as Christian truth compels us
to confess each person individually
as both God and Lord,
so Scripture forbids us
to say that there are three gods or lords.
The Father was neither made nor created nor begotten from anyone.
The Son was neither made nor created;
he was begotten from the Father alone.
The Holy Spirit was neither made nor created nor begotten;
he proceeds from the Father and the Son.
Accordingly there is one Father, not three fathers;
there is one Son, not three sons;
there is one Holy Spirit, not three holy spirits.
Nothing in this trinity is before or after,
nothing is greater or smaller;
in their entirety the three persons
are coeternal and coequal with each other.
So in everything, as was said earlier,
we worship their trinity in their unity
and their unity in their trinity.
We believe and confess
that our Lord Jesus Christ, God's Son,
is both God and human, equally.
He is God from the essence of the Father,
begotten before time;
and he is human from the essence of his mother,
born in time;
completely God, completely human,
with a rational soul and human flesh;
equal to the Father as regards divinity,
less than the Father as regards humanity.
Although he is God and human,
yet Christ is not two, but one.
He is one, however,
not by his divinity being turned into flesh,
but by God's taking humanity to himself.
He is one,
certainly not by the blending of his essence,
but by the unity of his person.
For just as one human is both rational soul and flesh,
so too the one Christ is both God and human.
He suffered for our salvation;
he arose from the dead;
he ascended to heaven;
he is seated at the Father's right hand
The Scriptures are God's Authoritative, inspired and inherent Word. Per the Gospel Christ was the saviour of all humankind. He will or has drawn all to himself and thus humankind is universally reconciled to God. Through Christ's atonement on the cross.
We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
I lovingly disagree with Carlton Pearson's path
There was a time that I agreed wholeheartedly with Carlton Pearson's views. When he released Gospel of Inclusion I agreed that Christ meant death was finished and hell was a mistranslation/misunderstood. However, he is now waded into the world of quacks and false prophets in the new age movement.
I pray for Carlton to realize that new age is simply rebranded spiritualism and based on the same shady snake oil. Psychics and quantum mystics are all false prophets. They are all fooled or outright lying cultist that thrive on people accepting absurdity about the nature of natural laws.
The dead are not talking to these people they use cold and hot reading. People like Abraham Hicks are quacks that are not special at all. Similarly you are not God and you do not make this reality like the universe is a giant genie.
I pray Carlton Pearson gets back to his senses ainstead of preaching the words of false prophets and con artists. In Jesus Precious Holy name, amen!!
I pray for Carlton to realize that new age is simply rebranded spiritualism and based on the same shady snake oil. Psychics and quantum mystics are all false prophets. They are all fooled or outright lying cultist that thrive on people accepting absurdity about the nature of natural laws.
The dead are not talking to these people they use cold and hot reading. People like Abraham Hicks are quacks that are not special at all. Similarly you are not God and you do not make this reality like the universe is a giant genie.
I pray Carlton Pearson gets back to his senses ainstead of preaching the words of false prophets and con artists. In Jesus Precious Holy name, amen!!
Evangelicals are diverse on the matter of same-sex behaviour and marriage
There is a stereotype of there being one specific evangelical Christian view on same-sex relationships and behaviour. However, this is not the case as there is a debate between groups of evangelicals that support or are indifferent to same-sex issues and those whom take the anti same-sex view.
The biggest difference in view tends to be amungst younger v. Older believers. However, this could be data collection bias as well. For example; the Evangelical Lutheran Church has an entire policy which is welcoming of LGB peoples. Also, reports are biased against any evangelicals that never were given a chance to participate in them.
I support LGB marriage and also am a defender of the importance of marriage for creating the most stable environment to raise children in. I agree that a family of married biological mother and father is the optimal form of raising a family. However, for the LGB person it is better to extend the sacred union to include them than to exclude them.
I do think that children should have strong role models from an early age of both mother and father figures even in a same-sex marriage. There should be in the life of the child if one is in the marriage role models of both sexes even if it is just a family friend. Someone to be the substituted figure of both father and mother.
I also do not condone all same-sex behavior under all circumstances. I do think that there needs to be standards irregardless of which sex you are with.
I also need to say that I do not have any ill will towards evangelicals that disagree with same-sex marriage or behavior. I love my traditional only Brothers and Sisters in Christ as I love all the non believers in my life. Just like I do not wish for my non-reconciliarion Brother or Sister to go through hell on Earth because they have mistranslated English Bibles.
At the end of the day we should all be able to get along and agree to disagree both the believer or atheist. We should not need to go along (agree) to get along in Agape Love for each other.
The biggest difference in view tends to be amungst younger v. Older believers. However, this could be data collection bias as well. For example; the Evangelical Lutheran Church has an entire policy which is welcoming of LGB peoples. Also, reports are biased against any evangelicals that never were given a chance to participate in them.
I support LGB marriage and also am a defender of the importance of marriage for creating the most stable environment to raise children in. I agree that a family of married biological mother and father is the optimal form of raising a family. However, for the LGB person it is better to extend the sacred union to include them than to exclude them.
I do think that children should have strong role models from an early age of both mother and father figures even in a same-sex marriage. There should be in the life of the child if one is in the marriage role models of both sexes even if it is just a family friend. Someone to be the substituted figure of both father and mother.
I also do not condone all same-sex behavior under all circumstances. I do think that there needs to be standards irregardless of which sex you are with.
I also need to say that I do not have any ill will towards evangelicals that disagree with same-sex marriage or behavior. I love my traditional only Brothers and Sisters in Christ as I love all the non believers in my life. Just like I do not wish for my non-reconciliarion Brother or Sister to go through hell on Earth because they have mistranslated English Bibles.
At the end of the day we should all be able to get along and agree to disagree both the believer or atheist. We should not need to go along (agree) to get along in Agape Love for each other.
Christian Conservative and Universalist
There are lots of people that assume being a conservative Christian is a code word for hate. However, this is not at all true. One does not need to be a liberal or progressive to be a Universalism proponent.
Nor is being a liberal Christian mean you are in agreement with universal Salvation or reconciliation through the work of Christ on the cross. Often conservative Christians are painted with the hate brush on certain issues like LGB issues or on abortion.
However, what one does or does not think about things such as same sex marriage is not interchangeable with right vs left wing politics. There have been leftists whom have been against same sex marriage and many rightists whom have supported such arrangements.
There have been Christian conservatives whom have fully supported every single LGB legislation passed in Canada and elsewhere. The fundamentalists do not represent all Christian Conservatives they are only one group of Christians.
However, I will go on record as saying love and grace are abounding even in those you might disagree with. I do not make the marriage question intricate to being an overall good person. People can disagree with same sex marriage and still be good people.
The LGB question is not intricate to being a good person. Nor is it key to embracing someone as a Good Christian, as the saying goes. I happen to support marriages for same sex adults, but, I also understand why others are so concerned with traditional marriage as well.
Both sides of the debate belong to The Body of Christ and I am not going to try and push my views on traditional marriage proponents anymore than I want them pushing their views on me.
As for abortion I am personally absolutely pro life. A view which has changed over time. I also do not support reopening any legislation within Canada on the subject.
On the issue of Christians in general the word refers to nothing hateful at all. Christian's are those whom have come to realize that Jesus was Lord and Saviour. So, there is no reason for assuming it is hateful when the meaning is understood.
In regards to myself I am in both the Conservative Christian and Universalist camp. I am someone that finds the Word of God points to us all being saved by the finished work of the cross. However, I am also a Conservative whom thinks that free minds and free markets are the way of having a functioning government which stays within its constitutional bounds. I believe in balancing budgets, keeping government efficient where it has to be involved. As well as keeping government as limited as possible within an ever changing world.
Nor is being a liberal Christian mean you are in agreement with universal Salvation or reconciliation through the work of Christ on the cross. Often conservative Christians are painted with the hate brush on certain issues like LGB issues or on abortion.
However, what one does or does not think about things such as same sex marriage is not interchangeable with right vs left wing politics. There have been leftists whom have been against same sex marriage and many rightists whom have supported such arrangements.
There have been Christian conservatives whom have fully supported every single LGB legislation passed in Canada and elsewhere. The fundamentalists do not represent all Christian Conservatives they are only one group of Christians.
However, I will go on record as saying love and grace are abounding even in those you might disagree with. I do not make the marriage question intricate to being an overall good person. People can disagree with same sex marriage and still be good people.
The LGB question is not intricate to being a good person. Nor is it key to embracing someone as a Good Christian, as the saying goes. I happen to support marriages for same sex adults, but, I also understand why others are so concerned with traditional marriage as well.
Both sides of the debate belong to The Body of Christ and I am not going to try and push my views on traditional marriage proponents anymore than I want them pushing their views on me.
As for abortion I am personally absolutely pro life. A view which has changed over time. I also do not support reopening any legislation within Canada on the subject.
On the issue of Christians in general the word refers to nothing hateful at all. Christian's are those whom have come to realize that Jesus was Lord and Saviour. So, there is no reason for assuming it is hateful when the meaning is understood.
In regards to myself I am in both the Conservative Christian and Universalist camp. I am someone that finds the Word of God points to us all being saved by the finished work of the cross. However, I am also a Conservative whom thinks that free minds and free markets are the way of having a functioning government which stays within its constitutional bounds. I believe in balancing budgets, keeping government efficient where it has to be involved. As well as keeping government as limited as possible within an ever changing world.
Thursday, February 20, 2020
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