Death threats for preaching the Bible IN CHURCH???
We read:
"A church in rural Indiana has gone on lock-down and its pastor has fled into hiding after a shocking video emerged of a four-year-old boy singing a homophobic song.
The clip shows the child receiving raucous applause and a standing ovation as he chants 'ain't no homos gonna make it to heaven.'
On Wednesday, members of Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church in Greensburg, Indiana, said they have received death threats over the publication of the video.
In the grainy footage recorded by a cellphone, a young boy approaches the microphone and sings: 'I know the the Bible’s right, somebody’s wrong/ the Bible’s right, somebody’s wrong/ Romans one, twenty six and twenty seven/ Ain’t no homos gonna make it to Heaven.'
Men in suits rise to their feet and begin cheering and applauding. Pastor Jeff Sangl grins and nods approvingly.
Three times the boy sings the verse -- which is a takeoff on lyrics written by Bishop G.E. Patterson, the late leader of the nation's largest black Pentecostal church.
The original lyrics read: 'I've told you time and time again, you can't make it to Heaven while you sippin' on gin' and 'I've told you once, I've told you twice, you can't make it to Heaven with a sweetheart and a wife.'
The Bible verse the boy refers to, Romans 1:26-27, reads: 'Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. '
Even as criticism of the church pours in, members of the congregation are standing by the boy's performance.
'The people who are upset just don't read the word of God. If we don't teach the children the truth early they will never learn,' one congregant told TMZ.com.
After the video went public, Pastor Sangl, who is seen urging the boy on, suddenly left for an unplanned vacation and no one is sure where he's gone.
Members of the congregation say they've received death threats.
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Four years old?!? What the heck is a four year old doing singing about this topic?
What this says to me is that this church has the wrong focus. They're so intent on hating one sin that they're forgetting the most important thing:
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
— Matthew 22:37–40
At his age, he should be singing songs like "Jesus Loves Me" and "Jesus Loves the Little Children".
Jesus Loves Me
Jesus loves me!
This I know,
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong;
They are weak but He is strong.
Jesus loves me!
Loves me still,
Tho I'm very weak and ill,
That I might from sin be free,
Bled and died upon the tree.
Jesus loves me!
He who died
Heaven's gate to open wide;
He will wash away my sin,
Let His little child come in.
Jesus loves me!
He will stay
Close beside me all the way.
Thou hast bled and died for me;
I will henceforth live for Thee.
Chorus:
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.
Jesus Loves the Little Children
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus loves the little children
Of the world.
Jesus died for all the children
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus died for all the children
Of the world.
Jesus rose for all the children
All the children of the world
Red, brown, yellow
Black and white
They are precious in His sight.
Jesus rose for all the children
Of the world.
That he's singing something like this strikes me as a sign that this church is warped.
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
— Revelation 2:4–5
As usial the liberals and athiests show their intollrence for bible beleiving christians
Good! These "religious" goons deserve what they get. They most certainly have a reservation in HELL without the AAA discount.
anon 229
we all deserve hell, however through Christ we get heaven no matter how imperfect we are.
The writer of the article calls the song homo-phobic. Just where in that song does it evince any fear of homos? The song is homo-critical but not homo-phobic.
The writer of the article calls the song homo-phobic. Just where in that song does it evince any fear of homos? The song is homo-critical but not homo-phobic.
Even the thread here so far, shows that this kind of thing obviously gets the Christians confused as they don't like to see their Bible's verses shown for what they are when they live in more enlightened times, so they just go weird like the classic confused robot that's given contradictory instructions - "Does not compute - does not compute" and then short-circuits. So-called Christians today (at least in the West) have to do a strange mind-game to accommodate their atavistic religious indoctrination with living in the modern world.
I have to agree with "Luke", a four year old doesn't understand half of the words in a song like that so and unless he is molested by a pederast he is not going to understand those words for years to come.
There are a great many songs which are far better to teach to four year old children.
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