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They bought into the "love your enemies" line as also meaning to love God's enemies and all wickedness.

If I really wanted to get schizo about it I have a theory that this stuff really kicked off at the turn of the 20th century when "revivals" erupted all over the place with speaking in tongues and running up and down, hooping and hollering and acting like animals became acceptable in service. This birthed the pentecostal church which then birthed the charismatic which birthed the current NAR.

Every one got more and more into this stuff and claimed all sorts of wild things. Boiled down they are all based on emotion. You go to church get "struck by the spirit" and get an emotional high and then come back Sunday for another high. All this is pushed with rhythmic music to hype you up. Emotional dependency lead to acceptance of emotional appeals from outside the church, i.e. faggots.

I grew up as pentecostal and I felt bad because I never really experienced that "struck" thing. Was I touched emotionally sometimes? Sure, but it was few and far in-between and that generally was during preaching as I reflected on what was done for a wretch such as myself. Anyway back to the point, in some circles you were looked down upon if you never got struck.

Watcher of Flames 2y ago

Yeah I grew up pentecostal too

What's interesting though is that this acceptance of faggotry is going on in virtually every denomination, but it occurs through different paths based on the different social tendencies of each. I agree with you about the general path in pentecostalism, but now the argument is "God can save anyone with any sin, and it would be unloving to tell them to much of the truth about LGBT sin." Where, in Lutheranism, excess focus on scholasticism causes them to come to the same place of "we must tolerate the gays", but not through the emotional place of the pentecostals but through some kind of strange logic: "we should focus more on the gospel and less on the law."

To me this is proof that the spirit of the age, demonic influence is at work in multiple denominations through false christians to bring about the same result in different ways.

Simply look at catholicism and orthodoxy, they also have factions pushing this stuff.

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Ωmega 2y ago

Yea it's a multifaceted assault no doubt.

This is why I have started trying to use dictionaries like Strong's that will give you the actual meaning of the Hebrew and/or Greek words the Bible was originally composed of. Because I think some of the meaning has been altered over the years as languages change.

Not that Strong's is above the Word by any means, more a supplemental tool to aid in understanding what is being said.

For example if I said "I saved all the people in the land". At the time I mean i saved all the people in my country. It's understood at that time what I meant.

Thousands of years later someone finds it and think I mean all land on the entire earth. Which was not the case. Original meanings need to be understood