This is – first and foremost – a law that targets innocent children.
Really, all of this is over minor children. It says that parents can’t engage in conversion therapy for their minor children (for who, again, the parents have responsibility – to both the government and God). However, when that minor child turns 18, they are free to get conversion therapy on their own.
Unintended Consequences – CA SB 1172 More
So – what we end up with is a whole bunch of Christian denominations arguing over whose version is correct (and also first – even though none of these denominations (obviously) existed back in Moses’ time! They take their focus off the main thing (God) and appear to non-church people like everything they stand for is just made by man and doesn’t really mean anything.
The main thing – and the ten Commandments More
So while I was reading this exchange in the book – I couldn’t help but wonder – when confronted at the final judgment – how many people will say the same thing to Jesus?
How many will tell Him that He can’t judge them – that He can’t condemn them?
“You can’t do this!” – You keep saying that, and yet … More
What some of us may have a hard time realizing is that people with attitudes like this can actually reach a point where they’re quite “happy and content” with life as they know it. Notice – I put quotes around “Happy and content” – because it’s happiness and contentment as they know it. Never having allowed themselves to experience anything else – they assume that whatever they now have in life is as good as it’s going to get.
Be careful what you ask for More
One last note – to myself – and to you – yes, we all need encouragement. One other thing we all need is to remember that we need encouragement. Then, after remembering, we need to actually go and get that encouragement.
The Book of Malachi is shocking. … As I read this, I can’t help but feel the similarities to us – here – today. Now! Not surprising when so many generations have wanted it – all of it – and right NOW!
Protected from the Bible – is this your church? More
Ro 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. I received this from biblegateway.com today as the “verse of the day”. At first
Protected from the Bible – too much reality? More
OK – the passage does say if God is for us.
However, does that mean God is on our side? I’d say – far from it.
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If you really have a need to be “on God’s side” – maybe do it by believing in the One He sent – His Son, Jesus.
Is God really on your side? More
It’s no different now that it was before. Going all the way back to Genesis. God says one thing – people want to believe another. We say times have changed. We say people have changed. We say God has changed. Truth is – Qoheleth (aka The Teacher, Solomon) was right …
People shouldn’t be protected from the Bible More
I feel like the quote above is a bit “dangerous”.
There’s a condition built into the quote. But the conditional word is absent. It’s implied. And it’s too easy to think that it’s not even there.
Our story will end well. (If we really want it to.) More
