by Stephen Belsheim | Aug 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The text that stood out from the Day 164 reading was Romans 8:9, 11 because it teaches that the Holy Spirit dwells in a believer. If you are a Christian just ponder the wonderful biblical truth that “the Holy Spirit dwells in me!” I thought it would be...
by Stephen Belsheim | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Bible presents the account of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18:16-19:29. According to Bishop Wilke, it is “easy” to see that the sin of Sodom was not homosexual activity, but the inhospitality of the people of Sodom because they wanted to rape and humiliate...
by Stephen Belsheim | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
The pro-LGBTQ faction minimizes the importance of Scripture that addresses homosexual conduct. They appear to do this in a number of ways. First, the pro-LGBTQ agenda downplays the Scriptures that speak to homosexual practice by characterizing them as a...
by Stephen Belsheim | Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
The pro-LGBTQ faction of the UMC advances the “God made me this way” (GMMTW) argument as support. As Robert Gagnon wrote in an email of September 8, 2011 (see his website): The argument that “God made me this way” is a bad one. The essence of the GMMTW argument...
by Stephen Belsheim | Aug 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
In this article, I explain why the pro-LGBTQ faction of the UMC is wrong to euphemistically characterize the physicality of homosexual sex, as well as those who engage in homosexual sexual activities. Basically, this means that they use agreeable or...