Church bans interracial couples
Oodain
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Meh, I don't go to church, anyway. But, I guess they're free to worship as they wish, and to exclude whom they please. They just won't be collecting any tithes from interracial couples, or from interracial people.
Come to think of it, most of the South is interracial, although most people who self-identify as "White" won't admit it.
(Acts 10:27-28)
These verses address the ultimate Scriptural racial divide -- that between Jew and Gentile -- and show it to be removed.
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John_Browning
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Based on the article, it sounds like a lot of their members are going to find a new church.
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(Acts 10:27-28)
These verses address the ultimate Scriptural racial divide -- that between Jew and Gentile -- and show it to be removed.
It says in Perke Avot (Sayings of the Sages) that the righteous of all the earth have a portion in the World to Come. It is also a commandment in the Torah not to despise an Egyptian. Thou shalt not despise an Egyptian for you once dwelled with him.
See: http://www.torahinmotion.org/articles_d ... nemies.htm
Maybe you should beware of Goyim telling you what the Jews said. The source is somewhat polluted.
ruveyn
(Acts 10:27-28)
These verses address the ultimate Scriptural racial divide -- that between Jew and Gentile -- and show it to be removed.
It says in Perke Avot (Sayings of the Sages) that the righteous of all the earth have a portion in the World to Come. It is also a commandment in the Torah not to despise an Egyptian. Thou shalt not despise an Egyptian for you once dwelled with him.
See: http://www.torahinmotion.org/articles_d ... nemies.htm
Maybe you should beware of Goyim telling you what the Jews said. The source is somewhat polluted.
ruveyn
Isn't that part about not despising an Egyptian near other passages which describe how the Israelites are to wipe out the Midianites, Canaanites, and other people that just happen to be in the way?
How do you know that?
telepathy
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Christianity is different than Judaism only in people's minds -- not in the Bible.
(Acts 10:27-28)
These verses address the ultimate Scriptural racial divide -- that between Jew and Gentile -- and show it to be removed.
It says in Perke Avot (Sayings of the Sages) that the righteous of all the earth have a portion in the World to Come. It is also a commandment in the Torah not to despise an Egyptian. Thou shalt not despise an Egyptian for you once dwelled with him.
See: http://www.torahinmotion.org/articles_d ... nemies.htm
Maybe you should beware of Goyim telling you what the Jews said. The source is somewhat polluted.
ruveyn
The Jews remain and are affirmed to be God's chosen people in the New Testament. Is that corrupt as well? Not a typically Gentile doctrine.
If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
(Romans 11:13-18)
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The article seems to have been removed by Yahoo!
Don't Christians want the world to know what they're really all about?
< Later >
Here's the same story from different sources:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news ... al-couples
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/de ... al-couples
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news ... al-couples
"Not Racist"?! ! Typical ... any sin committed by a Christian in God's name is not a sin, it seems ...
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The Yahoo link still works for me, but here is the story
Nine members of Gulnare Freewill Baptist Church backed their former pastor, with six opposed, in Sunday's vote to bar interracial couples from church membership and worship activities. Funerals were excluded.
The vote was taken after most of the 40 people who attended Sunday services had left the church in Pike County, near the border with West Virginia. Many members left to avoid the vote.
Most members of the church "didn't want anything to do with this," said longtime church official Dean Harville, whose daughter and her black fiance had drawn pastor Melvin Thompson's ire.
At services earlier this year, Stella Harville, 24, who is working on her master's degree in optical engineering, sang "I Surrender All" with her fiance, Ticha Chikuni, 29, a Zimbabwe native, according to her father. Chikuni, an employee at Georgetown College in Kentucky, played the piano.
"There didn't appear to be any problem," Dean Harville said on Wednesday. "None whatsoever."
But Harville said Thompson told him the couple would not be allowed to sing at the church again. Thompson resigned in August but would not drop the issue.
Thompson told a local radio outlet, "I do not believe in interracial marriages, and I do not believe this (ban) will give our church a black eye at all."
He could not be reached for comment.
The move has drawn scrutiny from the hierarchy of the Freewill Baptist Church, Harville said.
"This kind of thing brands all of us so easily," said Randy Johnson, president of the Pike County Ministerial Association. "That's not who we are. From all the churches I've talked to so far, it's really not anger so much as it is shock
How do you know that?
telepathy
Nah. It's just fairly common knowledge.
Ralphie May will explain it for you.
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