Discipleship involves discipline
This past Lent has been a most appropriate season in the church
calendar to prepare ones self for such an early Easter. Indeed, it
should have been a time for studying ‘the word of God’ and noticing
the emphasis it gives for temperance and self denial. Yes, and its
constant reference to the needs ‘to subdue fleshly cravings and lusts’
to those of the promptings of the Spirit. However, many Catholic
priests who’ve denied themselves the cravings of the palate have
hardly denied themselves the cravings of the penis! There are those
who have – very sadly - been biblically ‘weighed in the balance and
found wanting!’
Oh yes, and before Protestant pastors preen
themselves as morally superior, they too will reveal their own form of
blinkered hypocrisy by thoughtlessly partaking of intensively reared
lamb for their palate, after offering grace to the dear Lamb of God!
Theologically Liberal groups – such as the Quakers and
Anglicanism’s ‘broad church’ contingent – may not be quite as
inconsistent as the above. But then, in embracing morally permissive
attitudes their teaching frequently becomes at loggerheads with what
the New Testament teaches. For example, todays so-called ‘gay’
practices may be widespread and legally acceptable by the state, but
in the New Testament they are very clearly forbidden, just as are the
practices of adultery, incest and bestiality.
‘Surely ‘same
sex marriage’ is no more morally acceptable than is marriage to our
beloved and most faithful cat, dog, horse, or other animal? And
indeed, as for ‘civil partnerships’, why should financial perks
resulting from them be allowed to them and not to other relationships
such as those I’ve touched upon, plus other two humans caring for each
other? That a past Government should have sanctioned ‘civil
partnerships; and that it and the present Coalition should now be
‘pushing through’ ‘same sex marriage’ is dictatorship at its worst. It
was not on any mandate, has not been given a public referendum; and is
in clear and open opposition to what Christianity has taught
throughout all the centuries since Christ rose from the dead!
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