With more respect...
I was reading though the posts this morning and came to this thread...again.
Well, yes, I watched the video...again.
A thought came to me, perhaps you will agree, perhaps not?
I was slightly annoyed by the lack of reverence, as before, yet a new thought came to mind...I don't need to be angry with this "actor", I need to feel pity for a fellow human being who's spirit has been twisted by the "powers that be."
I imagine that this person who portrayed Christ in such an irreverent and disrespectful way, will probably not be viewed favorably by the Father at the judgment. And, though he disrespected my Lord and King, I still felt a little sadness for the situation...not anger.
As odd as it may sound, I usually get more upset with my fellow "brothers & sisters in Christ." It's hard for me to get really upset with someone who doesn't know any better. My "brothers & sisters" have dishonored the Father and Son, through their hateful comments toward one another, far more than this "ignorant of the spirit" gay actor.
I've also come to realize that it rarely does any good to tell "outsiders" that they are perverse or "abominizing."
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar? Who knows?
There might not be many flies or very much honey left in the world, times being what they are.
For some reason, these passages came to mind...perhaps it's worth noting?
Peace and love to you all.
1 Corinthians 13
The Excellence of Love
13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. [SUP]2 [/SUP]If I have
the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. [SUP]3 [/SUP]And if I give all my possessions to feed
the poor, and if I surrender my body [SUP][
a][/SUP]to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
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4 [/SUP]Love is patient, love is kind
and is not jealous; love does not brag
and is not arrogant, [SUP]5 [/SUP]does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong
suffered, [SUP]6 [/SUP]does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; [SUP]7 [/SUP][SUP][
b][/SUP]bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
[SUP]8 [/SUP]Love never fails; but if
there are gifts of [SUP][
c][/SUP]prophecy, they will be done away; if
there are tongues, they will cease; if
there is knowledge, it will be done away. [SUP]9 [/SUP]For we know in part and we prophesy in part; [SUP]10 [/SUP]but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. [SUP]11 [/SUP]When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I [SUP][
d][/SUP]became a man, I did away with childish things. [SUP]12 [/SUP]For now we see in a mirror [SUP][
e][/SUP]dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. [SUP]13 [/SUP]But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the [SUP][
f][/SUP]greatest of these is love.
John 9
[SUP]39 [/SUP]And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” [SUP]40 [/SUP]Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?” [SUP]41 [/SUP]Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but [SUP][
f][/SUP]since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.