Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxl!kae From: kae@ihuxl.UUCP (Alan Edwards) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Church Discipline and Gay Christians Message-ID: <1509@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 22:08:38 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1509 Posted: Thu Mar 7 22:08:38 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 06:30:48 EST References: <1292@akgua.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 37 > Re: Judgement Part II - Church Discipline and Gay Christians Another scripture is in I Corinthians 6:9-11 were Paul says: 9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God. Paul tells us that "the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God" in verse 9 and then goes on to list some sins that we need to be aware so that we're "not deceived". Then in verse 11, Paul says that some of them were like this. Paul using the word "were" certainly leads us to believe that they had changed and weren't the same! Why aren't they in that unrighteous state? Paul says, they were washed, sanctified, and justified in the name of Jesus and in the Spirit of God. Certainly, it must have been more important to the people of that day to put aside their worldly pleasures for an inheritance in the kingdom of God! -- -Alan Edwards IH 4B-402 x4033 (ihuxl!kae)