N.H. Court Backs Gay Benefits for State Employees
East News • May 7, 2006
Vivian Knezevich wants to be home with three-year-old Christopher full-time but she's had to take a job for the health insurance.
If her partner were a man, they could get married and she'd be ...
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: I want to stay home too!
Posted On: May 12, 2006, 10:26 am CDT
Posted By: Barney
Comment:
Jesus' sacrifice is off topic. His behavior towards a sinner is not necesssarily indicative of the sinner's relationship to the cross. The woman taken in adultery might have gone right back to her lover's bed, and ended up in hell. I doubt it, but we don't know. Jesus did not forgive her, He only refused to condemn her due to lack of evidence.
Jesus can pardon sinners because He is God. I cannot pardon sinners because I am a creature and a sinner. I can forgive you for punching me in the nose, but if you are unrepentant God will not. And God can forgive you for punching me in the nose even if I don't.
God knows the heart, I don't. So I can only deal with what I see and hear, and follow the mandate laid down by St. Paul in Ephesians 5:11, "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." When I see or hear that a man has renounced evil and embraced the gospel, I will assume that he has joined the ranks of the redeemed and behave accordingly. If he renounces evil and doesn't embrace the gospel, I will still hire him and add him to the ranks of the insured. I simply do not want to tacitly approve of evil by associating with and supporting it, being forced to treat two homos as if they were on an equal footing with a married man and woman.
One basic definition of freedom is the lack of coersion. To be forced by government to hire people whom I sincerely believe are evil is a violation of my conscience and a further erosion of private property rights, i.e., freedom. This doesn't seem to have concerned you.
I am certian that St. Paul would approve of a company not hiring someone dedicated to flouting sexual perversion, and would disapprove of government mandating hiring and providing for him, since he said in Romans 13 that civil magistrates are God's instruments for punishing evil. For governemnt to force someone to ignore evil is to turn its God-given mandate on its head.
Since St. Paul was a immediate spokesman for God, there is no doubt in my mind about Jesus' disposition on this topic.
Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: I want to stay home too!
Jesus can pardon sinners because He is God. I cannot pardon sinners because I am a creature and a sinner. I can forgive you for punching me in the nose, but if you are unrepentant God will not. And God can forgive you for punching me in the nose even if I don't.
God knows the heart, I don't. So I can only deal with what I see and hear, and follow the mandate laid down by St. Paul in Ephesians 5:11, "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." When I see or hear that a man has renounced evil and embraced the gospel, I will assume that he has joined the ranks of the redeemed and behave accordingly. If he renounces evil and doesn't embrace the gospel, I will still hire him and add him to the ranks of the insured. I simply do not want to tacitly approve of evil by associating with and supporting it, being forced to treat two homos as if they were on an equal footing with a married man and woman.
One basic definition of freedom is the lack of coersion. To be forced by government to hire people whom I sincerely believe are evil is a violation of my conscience and a further erosion of private property rights, i.e., freedom. This doesn't seem to have concerned you.
I am certian that St. Paul would approve of a company not hiring someone dedicated to flouting sexual perversion, and would disapprove of government mandating hiring and providing for him, since he said in Romans 13 that civil magistrates are God's instruments for punishing evil. For governemnt to force someone to ignore evil is to turn its God-given mandate on its head.
Since St. Paul was a immediate spokesman for God, there is no doubt in my mind about Jesus' disposition on this topic.