Apple CEO Comes Out: Apple CEO Tim Cook Announces He is Gay

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1still_waters

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Apple CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Proud to Be Gay" | NBC4 Washington


Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke out publicly about his sexuality in an op-ed for Bloomberg Businessweek, saying, "I'm proud to be gay" and that he hoped to inspire others.
"While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now," Cook said in the article, entitled "Tim Cook Speaks Up" published on Thursday. "So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."
 

damombomb

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Oh Lord.........................
 
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didymos

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Apple is now OFFICIALLY gay. ;)
 

Nautilus

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no big deal, do we really need a thread anytime a celebrity or business owner comes out?
 

notuptome

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So what are the expected consequences of his announcement? I wonder if he has considered the possible negative effect it may have on the business?

There has been some negative outlooks for Apple and few really good new products so I wonder if God is withholding His blessing?

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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A great many people in this world are sexually immoral and spiritually deceived and he's one of them.

Welcome to a fallen and declining world that increasingly loves immorality and Satan's lies far more than it does holiness and God's truth.

"And with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness." -2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

Why is God going to send a strong delusion in the end times?

It's important to understand the above verse in its original language and in context for there is where you find that God's not actually sending a deluding influence but rather judicially permitting it to come upon them as they exercise their free will to align with the "working of error" (e.g. parallel to the “working of Satan”) in which a superhuman force and fascination is implied; that of Satan’s miraculous working in the Antichrist in which the "mystery of lawlessness" is already at work.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges adds this:

"St Paul teaches that God makes sin work out its own punishment. In Romans 1:24-25, he represents the loathsome vice of the Pagan world as a Divine chastisement for its long-continued idolatry: “For this cause God sends effectual delusion” is parallel to “For this cause God gave them up to vile passions.” In each case the result is inevitable, and comes about by what we now call a natural law. That persistent rejection of truth destroys the sense of truth and results in fatal error, is an ethical principle and a fact of experience as certain as any in the world. Now he who believes in God as the Moral Ruler of the Universe, knows that its laws are the expression of His will."

Jesus foresaw the great apostasy as a prelude to the Parousia and warned both those who would fall into sin as well as those who would cause others to fall.

Fortunately, Jesus also gave encouragements about the mercy of God for repentant backsliders as well as the strength and faithfulness of God toward those who are genuinely His.

Associated with apostasy (in general) are:

1. moral and/or spiritual failure (Acts 5:1–11; 8:9–24);
2. persecution (Heb 10:32–39; 1 Pet 3:13–17; 4:12–19; 5:8; Rev 2:9, 13; 3:9);
3. false teaching (Acts 20:30; Jas 1:16; 2 Pet 2:1; Jude 4; 1 Jn 2:18–19; 2 Jn 7–11; Rev 2:6, 14–15, 20); (4) self-choice (Jas 1:13–15; 5:19).

Tim, like so many in this generation, is already deceived and ensnared. Will he take the mark of the beast and direct Apple as a corporate partner of the anti-Christ at some future date? The odds are presently good.


Apple CEO Tim Cook: "I'm Proud to Be Gay" | NBC4 Washington


Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke out publicly about his sexuality in an op-ed for Bloomberg Businessweek, saying, "I'm proud to be gay" and that he hoped to inspire others.
"While I have never denied my sexuality, I haven’t publicly acknowledged it either, until now," Cook said in the article, entitled "Tim Cook Speaks Up" published on Thursday. "So let me be clear: I’m proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me."
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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Edit:

"Will he take the mark of the beast and direct Apple as a corporate partner of the anti-Christ at some future date? The odds are presently good."

should read:

"Will he take the mark of the beast and direct Apple as a corporate partner of the anti-Christ at some future date? The odds are presently good should it occur during his tenure as the CEO of Apple."
 
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1still_waters

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Edit:

"Will he take the mark of the beast and direct Apple as a corporate partner of the anti-Christ at some future date? The odds are presently good."

should read:

"Will he take the mark of the beast and direct Apple as a corporate partner of the anti-Christ at some future date? The odds are presently good should it occur during his tenure as the CEO of Apple."
I have my self-credentialed internet doctorate degree in forecasting future events, and I project no.
 
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I can handle him coming out. Alright. But him calling it "God's greatest gift" is beyond ridiculous.
 
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Well good for him, and I am pretty sure that God did not give him that gift....although God will give him the gift of extreme heat in a liquid deprived place if he does not repent and trust Jesus for biblical salvation!
 

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Comes out? Eh, none of my business.
Gods greatest gift to him..sorely deceived.
Now expects rainbow colored iphones.
 

crossnote

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If this life style is so 'normal' as they try to claim...why in the world is there such a whoop-de-doo every time some one 'comes out'?
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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I said "should it occur during his tenure as the CEO of Apple." That's highly unlikely, to say the least, as while the signs of the times point toward humanity's headlong rush into that "day"; it's obviously still in the distance. So, I agree with you... though it may come sooner than later... possibly a few decades rather than a few centuries, for example. Personally, I tend to think so.


Edit:

"Will he take the mark of the beast and direct Apple as a corporate partner of the anti-Christ at some future date? The odds are presently good."

should read:

"Will he take the mark of the beast and direct Apple as a corporate partner of the anti-Christ at some future date? The odds are presently good should it occur during his tenure as the CEO of Apple."
 
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Joshua

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So unfortunate, I loved all of the Apple Products! :(
 
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Joshua

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Steve Jobs was just as much as a sinner as this guy.
We are all sinners. If I was saying that I wouldn't use Apple because Tim Cook is a sinner then I'd be doing the very things Jesus Christ said not to which is judge others and not forgive their trespasses. I cannot however use Apple in good conscience knowing that Tim Cook is advocating that being homosexual is a gift of GOD when it is an abomination, and his company stands behind him on his belief.
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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Jesus often judged the behavior of other people during His ministry on earth. In fact, in the end, He will judge all behavior of every person (Acts 10:42, Matthew 25, etc...).

NO, every judge in the world doesn't need to step down immediately and societies do not need to rapidly deteriorate into lawless chaos with every criminal immediately freed and allowed to do whatever they want (including murder, assault, extortion, robbery, organized crime, etc...) because no one has the right to judge another.

Read Romans 13 and learn what it actually means. It's Biblical that earthly judges implement a godly rule of law and judge those who break it (note: this is not to be confused with governments wrongly implementing ungodly laws).

In Mathew 7:1-5, Jesus taught not to judge at all if we judge others the way the Pharisees did in failing to remove our own blindness beforehand.

Read 1 Corinthians 5:12-13 with regard to judging people in the church. Inside the church, we judge those who grossly violate God's moral law (1 Corinthians 5) in our midst. We don't do this as the Pharisees did, we do examine ourselves and deal with our own hearts and lives beforehand and we do follow the Biblical model for it (see https://bible.org/article/church-discipline ).

The historical background of the Corinthian church is interesting. It has long been recognized by Biblical historical scholars that many of the problems Paul addresses in the church at Corinth are grounded in their wrong thinking (that was a result of the Hellenism and mystical cults that had spread across the Roman Empire from the East which many of the gentile believers had followed before becoming Christians).

You see Plato had taught that the body was the tomb of the soul; that death brought liberation from physical captivity; that already in this life one could transcend the negative arena of matter by a higher knowledge of ultimate reality. Various Hellenistic cults offered immortality via union with the god or gods, sometimes symbolized or achieved through cultic prostitution.

Within such a religious philosophical climate, Paul’s teaching regarding freedom “in Christ” and life “in the Spirit” was all too often, and particularly at Corinth, perverted into an enthusiastic libertinism that rejected moral restraints, particularly in the realm of the physical.

The proper response, both to the intolerable case of sexual immorality as well as to their imagined philosophical superiorities, should have been mourning. A repentant attitude would inevitably lead to the removal of the gross immoral offender from their church and fellowship.

That some form of excommunication is intended is clear not only from 1 Corinthians 5:2, but from the Passover analogy in 1 Corinthians 5:6–8 (“Get rid of the old yeast”) and the citation of Deuteronomy 17:7 (“Expel the wicked man from among you”—1 Cor 5:13). The nature of the removal is expressed in the ambiguous phrase “hand this man over to Satan.” Its purpose is twofold: (1) that his “sinful nature” or “flesh” would be destroyed and (2) that his “spirit” would be saved (1 Cor 5:5).

However, the phrase “hand over to Satan” must be recognized in some figurative metaphorical sense as a person literally abandoned to Satan would seem to be lost irrevocably and this end is not envisioned.

The ancient Corinthians had the same problem many who profess to believe in God do today: wrong thinking rooted in ignorance, rebellion, and immersion in an increasingly immoral society.

Read ALL three pages of Skye Jethani M.Div.'s article titled 'What Did Jesus Mean by "Judge Not"? Nine out of ten young people say Christians are judgmental, but are they right?' in Christianity Today.

It will help you truly understand what Jesus Christ actually meant: What Did Jesus Mean by "Judge Not"? | PARSE


We are all sinners. If I was saying that I wouldn't use Apple because Tim Cook is a sinner then I'd be doing the very things Jesus Christ said not to which is judge others and not forgive their trespasses. I cannot however use Apple in good conscience knowing that Tim Cook is advocating that being homosexual is a gift of GOD when it is an abomination, and his company stands behind him on his belief.
 
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AgeofKnowledge

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Alternatively, you can ask 1still_waters who has a "self-credentialed doctorate degree from No-cred Online University." ;)

But before all my haters pile on here I'm going on record and stating that I respect him as a man, an administrator of CC, and as a Christian whose opinion I listen to even when he disagrees with me.

I have no doubt that he would make a good neighbor and imho that may be the highest praise one can give another in this world. You decide :). Peace.
 
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Powemm

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Im sorry but gods irony is funny... I wonder how many against gays use apple..
 
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jjtj22

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I am glad you are posting again Age! I have missed your well thought out responses.

You'd make a good neighbor too but if I remember correctly from older posts you live in Cali, sorry, couldn't pay me to lol!