LETTER: Group preaches out of love, not hate
June 11, 2003
Alicia Ebaugh’s column about our wonderful picket of the fag
parade (a pitiful turn out by the fags, I must note) is a stark
illustration of the results of systematically lying to an entire
generation about eternity.
This young lady believes life is about her views, her feelings
and what she wants. In fact, it’s about God and what He wants, and
the duty of all mankind to study the scriptures and to fear God and
keep his commandments. That idea is just “crazy” to young Alicia,
let alone the thought someone would expend their own resources
(time, energy and money) publishing this message.
You have a definition problem. It is true that we are to love
our brothers. The elect of God have a benevolent love for their
fellow man, which is why they warn them to flee the wrath to
come.
If, as we say, and as every human is created to intuitively
understand, there is a God, there is a real place called hell, and
eternity is forever, where do you find anything loving when false
prophets and other responsible adults teach children things that
will land them in hell?
Where is the love in encouraging a lifestyle that by all reports
is extraordinarily harmful to the body, mind, heart and soul — and
will cost you eternal punishment?
That’s not love Alicia; that’s hate. And it’s the most selfish
kind of hate, because people promote these lies so they can feel OK
about their own sin.
I would venture a guess that we are the first people you’ve ever
met who truly love you.
If you are going to present yourself as a Bible scholar, you
should tell the truth about the Bible. The scriptures don’t say
“women have no place in the church.” Rather, the New Testament is
plain on the requirement that women remain silent during the
worship service and not pretend to be preachers. They are supposed
to be present, singing the hymns, listening and learning, and fully
engaged otherwise in the ministering to the saints and publishing
the word of truth.
That’s God’s standard, and there are a lot of good reasons for
it enunciated in these passages. You hate this standard as much as
you hate the standard against anal copulation.
That’s because you hate God.
Meanwhile, you testify in your column to the good information
the young people on that picket line kindly gave you.
You don’t refute the points they made: that the media is awash
in promoting this filth and that God doesn’t love an unrepentant
proud sinner. Instead, you fill up space with
wallowing-will-worship that adds nothing to the discussion and
merely further deludes your readers. All fluff; no stuff.
The good news is that this qualifies you to be a card-carrying
member of the American media!
A final word about judgment. If you truly believed you shouldn’t
judge, you would have never written your editorial. Because it’s
nothing but a loosely-knit, weakly-reasoned judgment against
us.
If you carefully consider the very words you quoted, you will
see that it says if you set up a standard by which you judge, you
will be held to that standard.
Alicia, you set up the Great Non-Judgment Standard, and measured
against that standard, you failed! That makes you nothing more than
another garden variety big, fat hypocrite!
Margie J. Phelps
Topeka, KS