XPost: alt.music.gospel.southern   
   From: justallan@COLDhotmail.com   
      
   On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 19:19:34 GMT, "Lane Gray, Czar Castic"   
    wrote:   
      
   >> The Phelps guy is dead anyway - unless that's his son's name - his son   
   >> has similar beliefs, but not as confrontational as his father was.   
   >> And to answer your question - if someone is a homosexual, they are not   
   >> a Christian.   
   >>   
   >Fred is still alive according to his website (notice the   
   >oh-so-very-Christian url godhatesfags.com), and I recall his leading a bus   
   >caravan to protest in Massachussetts.   
      
   Oh ok - I read an interview online (quite some time ago too) - that   
   said he'd died and his son had "taken up the cause" - the interviewer   
   had phoned him up and noted in the interview he was more subdued than   
   his father was.   
      
   >And to question your answer; does that also mean that if someone is an   
   >adulterer/murderer/habitual drunkard/thief, do they also lose their   
   >salvation?   
   >Or have you established 'special sins' that forfeit it?   
      
   If anyone knows they are in sin (or fools themselves they are not) and   
   doesn't make the slightest effort to turn away from it (repent), the   
   Bible says quite clearly... that He will reward every man according to   
   the works done in our bodies.   
      
   It also speaks of Heaven being a reward for the righteous.   
      
   Acts 10:35   
   But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is   
   accepted with him.   
      
   And speaking of righteousness...  Romans 1:17-18 says:   
      
   17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to   
   faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.   
   18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all   
   ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in   
   unrighteousness;   
      
   It goes on to tell us *who* holds the "truth in unrighteousness", but   
   first tells us these people have "their foolish heart darkened" and   
   think they are wise, when really they are fools.  Then it points the   
   finger directly at them starting in verse 24...   
      
   Homosexuals - who are idolators - who have vile affections - and who   
   do what is against nature.  If we had any doubt about who is meant,   
   verse 27 tells us clearly...  "men leaving the natural use of the   
   woman, burned in their lust one toward another; *MEN* WITH *MEN*"...   
      
   Then a bunch of other things are mentioned - and verse 32 says   
   although they KNOW the judgement of God, that they are worthy of death   
   - they not only continue to practice their evil, but find pleasure in   
   associating with others who do practice the same evil things.   
      
   Seems pretty clear to me.   
      
   Allan.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)