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God seems to have changed his mind
Issue date: 11/20/08
So did God truly change His mind? Is it that outlandish to believe that He had a sudden change of heart? Geologists do claim that California is due for another large earthquake; maybe these fires are only a taste of what God has in store for the 52 percent of Californians opposed to same-sex marriages. Or is God still trying to send a message to homosexuals? He hasn't yet claimed any lives. Is He holding back the full power of His wrath? Perhaps He is only warning the homosexual community that fighting back against the voice of the people will only condemn them to an expedited fiery grave.
Sorry Hagee, but I give the Christian God a little more credit than that. Jesus's message to his followers is that of love. Jesus represented the unspoken for, he stood up for the weak and the oppressed. And most importantly, Jesus gave us the golden rule. As he said in Matthew 7:12 "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Or in layman's terms, "Do unto others as you would have done to you." I don't know what message God meant to send through previous attacks on our nation, but it surely wasn't that of the golden rule. With this new message to the people of California, God finally realized the error of His ways and placed his support behind the rights of the minority.
So why hasn't the church fallen in line? Surely Christians such as Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and outspoken critic of gay marriage, don't wish for the gay community to ban heterosexual marriage. Surely the Mormons didn't raise $5 million for Proposition 8 just so that they can express their disapproval of taboo kinds of marriage. Surely James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family, didn't pump $600,000 into Prop 8 to demonstrate Jesus's message of love. (Did I mention Focus on the Family is now laying off employees due to "insufficient funds?")
God and His people have left me utterly confused yet again. Supporting Prop 8 is supporting discrimination. It is not supporting love. Maybe Jesus's message has been lost throughout the years, but if so, it now falls on God to reignite the flame of love within the hearts of His people. Maybe they just haven't drawn the connection yet.
Sorry Hagee, but I give the Christian God a little more credit than that. Jesus's message to his followers is that of love. Jesus represented the unspoken for, he stood up for the weak and the oppressed. And most importantly, Jesus gave us the golden rule. As he said in Matthew 7:12 "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." Or in layman's terms, "Do unto others as you would have done to you." I don't know what message God meant to send through previous attacks on our nation, but it surely wasn't that of the golden rule. With this new message to the people of California, God finally realized the error of His ways and placed his support behind the rights of the minority.
So why hasn't the church fallen in line? Surely Christians such as Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council and outspoken critic of gay marriage, don't wish for the gay community to ban heterosexual marriage. Surely the Mormons didn't raise $5 million for Proposition 8 just so that they can express their disapproval of taboo kinds of marriage. Surely James Dobson, president of Focus on the Family, didn't pump $600,000 into Prop 8 to demonstrate Jesus's message of love. (Did I mention Focus on the Family is now laying off employees due to "insufficient funds?")
God and His people have left me utterly confused yet again. Supporting Prop 8 is supporting discrimination. It is not supporting love. Maybe Jesus's message has been lost throughout the years, but if so, it now falls on God to reignite the flame of love within the hearts of His people. Maybe they just haven't drawn the connection yet.
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