Comments on: Love In Action http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/06/25/love-in-action/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:54:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Richard B. http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/06/25/love-in-action/#comment-4589 Richard B. Mon, 27 Jun 2005 16:32:27 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1539#comment-4589 I'm looking forward to hearing what the investigation finds. If the programme is anything close to what its website described it as... then I find it absolutely terrifying. And that's as someone in their mid-30s. To be a teen... to be placed there without any kind of say in the matter? *shiver* I’m looking forward to hearing what the investigation finds.

If the programme is anything close to what its website described it as… then I find it absolutely terrifying. And that’s as someone in their mid-30s.

To be a teen… to be placed there without any kind of say in the matter?

*shiver*

]]> By: Jeri Massi http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2005/06/25/love-in-action/#comment-4588 Jeri Massi Mon, 27 Jun 2005 00:38:26 +0000 http://ss75.shared.server-system.net/~benedictionblogson.com/?p=1539#comment-4588 If Smid told McIntyre to keep promising God he'd never commit *any* sin any more, then Smid was teaching contrary to the Bible. We don't promise God things like that. We go to God for forgiveness and confess to Him that He has to purify us. The Christian life is the life of living in terms of our own complete sinfulness, finding it all the more pervasive so that we can find the grace of God all the more pervasive. Telling somebody he can beat any sin by confessing and promising is a theory of man-made righteousness, not compatible with the doctrines of our justification and sanctification by faith in Christ. I feel bad for these people tempted by homosexuality. The first fallacy is to beleive that tempations and sins along those lines are the demarcation between being "normal" vs being "bad." A guy could clean up the gay stuff by the strictest celibacy and still perish in plenty of other sins because by nature he is still a depraved sinner, just as unclean before God as every other sinner, whch is all of us. I wish these Bible-psychology places would use actually Bible doctrine. But then if they did, they would have to stop locking down people, enforcing silences, and relying on group criticism. Jeri If Smid told McIntyre to keep promising God he’d never commit *any* sin any more, then Smid was teaching contrary to the Bible. We don’t promise God things like that. We go to God for forgiveness and confess to Him that He has to purify us. The Christian life is the life of living in terms of our own complete sinfulness, finding it all the more pervasive so that we can find the grace of God all the more pervasive.

Telling somebody he can beat any sin by confessing and promising is a theory of man-made righteousness, not compatible with the doctrines of our justification and sanctification by faith in Christ. I feel bad for these people tempted by homosexuality. The first fallacy is to beleive that tempations and sins along those lines are the demarcation between being “normal” vs being “bad.” A guy could clean up the gay stuff by the strictest celibacy and still perish in plenty of other sins because by nature he is still a depraved sinner, just as unclean before God as every other sinner, whch is all of us.

I wish these Bible-psychology places would use actually Bible doctrine. But then if they did, they would have to stop locking down people, enforcing silences, and relying on group criticism.

Jeri

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