Post by Guadalupe on Apr 2, 2015 8:53:26 GMT -5
NOTE: NBCI is the National Black Church Initiative. They give a very good answer to those who try to pervert Scripture to justify their own disobedience.
The rest of the story here
www.onenewsnow.com/church/2015/03/31/34k-black-churches-sever-ties-with-pcusa-over-gay-marriage#.VR1IbjvF8b0
"PC(USA)'s manipulation represents a universal sin against the entire church and its members," NBCI stated in its press release Monday. "With this action, PC(USA) can no longer base its teachings on 2,000 years of Christian Scripture and tradition, and call itself a Christian entity in the Body of Christ. It has forsaken its right by this single wrong act."
NBCI fights the PC(USA)'s rebellion with Scripture, using the Apostle Paul's words of warning to the Galatians:
"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!" - Galatians 1:6-9 (NIV)
Sticking to Scripture, NBCI argues that man cannot presume to have the authority to deviate from God's teachings in the Bible, no matter how he tries to rationalize it with the current conventions of society.
"No church has the right to change the Word of God," NBCI contends. "By voting to redefine marriage PC(USA) automatically forfeits Christ's saving grace."
NBCI fights the PC(USA)'s rebellion with Scripture, using the Apostle Paul's words of warning to the Galatians:
"I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!" - Galatians 1:6-9 (NIV)
Sticking to Scripture, NBCI argues that man cannot presume to have the authority to deviate from God's teachings in the Bible, no matter how he tries to rationalize it with the current conventions of society.
"No church has the right to change the Word of God," NBCI contends. "By voting to redefine marriage PC(USA) automatically forfeits Christ's saving grace."
The rest of the story here
www.onenewsnow.com/church/2015/03/31/34k-black-churches-sever-ties-with-pcusa-over-gay-marriage#.VR1IbjvF8b0