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I do not have time at this hour to give a full response to your post, but from the article it is clear that the writer's theology is quite liberal and that he rejects much of the teaching of Scripture (that which he finds objectionable) while accepting those ideas with which he agrees. That is not the way to approach Scripture, where all of it is to be accepted as authoritative and to be obeyed.
"I am a Christian who believes the doors of the church should open wide for all and I am more concerned about the content of one's character than anything else.
Long ago the congregation I pastor adapted this statement: “Our congregation knows some measure of God's grace, compassion, mercy, justice, peace and love. It is our desire to share this measure and more with you regardless of your age, race, marital status, physical condition, sexual orientation, ethnic or economic background. Jesus welcomes you and so do we.”
All of this sounds very nice and inclusive and what he wrote is true. The problem is not what it says, but what it leaves out that makes it contrary to Scripture -- he omits entirely God's holiness and hatred of sin, and the coming Judgement, of which Jesus often spoke. Jesus welcomes the adulterer, the fornicator, the liar, the thief, the homosexual, and all manner of sinners and bids them to come to Him for salvation, but once they do so, His command to them is to repent from their sinful lifestyles and "sin no more" and follow Him, obeying His commandments. If they refuse to do so, they are not of Him. That does not mean they are to be without sin -- none of us are. But it does mean that we are not to continue in the sinful way of life we led before.
God too, is "more concerned about the content of a man's character than anything else", but He sees us from His holy point of view which we can only know by reading His word, and not in the way that one man judges another.
The author claims to believe that "life begins at conception, yet in the same breath argues for abortion, the intentional, premeditated murder of that life. That is hardly a Christian (or Godly) point of view.
There is much in the article with which I would agree, but he comes at Christianity with a view of using it as a weapon for liberal thought just as too many folks use Scripture as a weapon for conservative thought -- both sides are wrong. God is neither liberal nor conservative -- He is God. He calls us to follow neither liberal nor conservative values, but to follow His values and commands. We do not learn His values apart from His word as found in Scripture.
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