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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Church Discipline and Gay Christians
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 12:35:04 EST
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Dave Trissel = >>
Bob Brown = >

Gee Dave, You started out so nice....

>>There seems to be many open minded Christians here on the net.  My reply to
>>Bob is addressed to you all as well as to him and I would be interested in
>>hearing your responses.  All I ask is that you give serious consideration to
>>the points and questions I pose.

>In article <1292@akgua.UUCP> rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob]) writes:
>
>However, those people who claim to be Christians and flout the obvious
>moral imperatives provided for us in Scripture are to be educated
>(gently) in their error first.  ...


Then you started into fiction writing...

>>("whats wrong with these sinners!
>>How can they let Satan decieve them so? They are so stupid! Can't they read
the Bible?") 

My mouth started paining me from all those words you started stuffing
into it...... and my head...Wow you did a stuff job there too !!

>>Somehow I get the feeling from the tone of your posting that you are not about
>>to open yourself up to the possibility of gay Christianity. 

Obviously David your reading skills need some sharpening.  I did NOT deny
that there are Gay Christians.  I maintain that they are in rebellion
at the moment if they are not actively attempting to get free of it.

>>You can stand on
>>your soapbox and post all day about those gays who think they are Christian
>>but aren't. My challange to you is to meet some of the people you condem.
>>Or is this beneath you?  Your attitude is all too typical of the Christians
>>in the church I grew up in.  That's one of the reasons I left.

More of the same David.  You type well but you don't read well.  In fact
you make my case pretty well in that you erect a straw man of me as a
condemner of homosexuals as un-Christian.  I've not done that, I'm 
discussing correction WITHIN the church.

You obviously are so rabidly emotional on this issue that you can't
sit still enough at your terminal to read what I've typed.

In fact you are so biased that you didn't even read the title of
my article...you know the one that had Gay Christians in it without
the quotes or smiley faces.

Anyway, my frustration meter just registered in the red zone so I
give up.  

"You can do anything that you wanna do (wanna do)
          but it's the  love of Jesus that saves you.."
						    Steve Archer '84




Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}