Dewey wrote a book!
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wrote on 17 Oct 2024, 15:05 last edited by
Homosexual ministers are apostate, as are pedophile ministers, drunkards, serial liars or any man that stands behind a pulpit to preach God's word and doesn't try to live it. I wish Dewey well and hope his sales are strong, but let no man confuse his story's pastor with a true Christian leader.
Some people would do well to read Paul's letters to Timothy.
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wrote on 17 Oct 2024, 15:05 last edited by
Good for him for getting it published. I enjoyed his writing style back in the Old TNCR. My kids will call me ignorant when they're older I'm sure, but the sight/idea of two married husbands still weirds me out, not sure I could get past that while reading the thriller.
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wrote on 17 Oct 2024, 15:13 last edited by
Yea, I definitely agree with Jolly, I'm happy for Dewey personally and wish him well but the homosexual pastor part is something I rather miss.
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wrote on 17 Oct 2024, 16:10 last edited by
As is well known, Satan plays the violin in order to steal the souls of unsuspecting country bumpkins, and it is a suspiciously curvaceous instrument, redolent of Mae West and other such shameless floozies.
Other than that, I wish Dewey great sales!
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wrote on 17 Oct 2024, 21:51 last edited by
Good luck to Dewey. I remember him as someone who was committed to helping HIV+ orphans in Honduras, and an architect who designed a really cool piano chair.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 00:05 last edited by
If only he'd spent less time helping Honduran orphans and more time being perfect.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 00:25 last edited by
He sure has done lots of spectacular look-at-me-being-virtuous things in his life. Continues to do so, as he devotes his life to breaking down doors of hatred and bigotry - forces he now has first hand experience with, in his lived experience as an oppressed minority.
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If only he'd spent less time helping Honduran orphans and more time being perfect.
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 01:13 last edited by Jolly@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey wrote a book!:
If only he'd spent less time helping Honduran orphans and more time being perfect.
You don't have to be perfect, but this is what you need to be:
1 Timothy:1-7 (NASB)
1 It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of [a]overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do. 2 [b]An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, 3 not addicted to wine [c]or pugnacious, but gentle, peaceable, free from the love of money. 4 He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity 5 (but if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how will he take care of the church of God?), 6 and not a new convert, so that he will not become conceited and fall into the condemnation [d]incurred by the devil. 7 And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
ἐπισκοπή That’s the greek for what the NASB translates as overseer. Here's what Strong has to say:
From episkeptomai; inspection (for relief); by implication, superintendence; specially, the Christian "episcopate" -- the office of a "bishop", bishoprick, visitation.
The KJV translates the word as "bishop".
Regardless, it is Paul's instructions for pastors.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 01:43 last edited by
Who died and put Paul in charge?
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Who died and put Paul in charge?
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 01:45 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Who died and put Paul in charge?
Do you really want to go there?
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 01:51 last edited by
I remember Dewey's last performance here.
Despicable.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Who died and put Paul in charge?
Do you really want to go there?
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 01:54 last edited by Doctor Phibes@Jolly said in Dewey wrote a book!:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Who died and put Paul in charge?
Do you really want to go there?
Just as Dewey is a reformed conservative, Paul was a reformed judicial killer, and yet suddenly he got to tell all the people he’d been brutalizing how they needed to behave to really be good.
Even as a child, when we were told the story of Saul and Paul, I used to think I didn’t really like the guy very much.
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@Jolly said in Dewey wrote a book!:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Who died and put Paul in charge?
Do you really want to go there?
Just as Dewey is a reformed conservative, Paul was a reformed judicial killer, and yet suddenly he got to tell all the people he’d been brutalizing how they needed to behave to really be good.
Even as a child, when we were told the story of Saul and Paul, I used to think I didn’t really like the guy very much.
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 02:31 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey wrote a book!:
@Jolly said in Dewey wrote a book!:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Who died and put Paul in charge?
Do you really want to go there?
Just as Dewey is a reformed conservative, Paul was a reformed judicial killer, and yet suddenly he got to tell all the people he’d been brutalizing how they needed to behave to really be good.
Even as a child, when we were told the story of Saul and Paul, I used to think I didn’t really like the guy very much.
I'm having trouble equating Paul's encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus, with Dewey leaving his wife and child to become a homosexual pastor.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 03:04 last edited by
@Copper said in Dewey wrote a book!:
I remember Dewey's last performance here.
Despicable.
Care to summarize? I was mostly absent from about 2012 through 2020...
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 05:16 last edited by
Dewey is a nice guy.
Who gives a flying fuck weither he is gay? It's 2024. Judge people by their character, not by their sexual preferences.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 11:42 last edited by
His natural feeling to be attracted to fellow men can be respected as much as my natural feeling to be grossed out by such a sight or concept.
BTW I knew 20 years ago that I'd eventually be in the awkward minority on this...and watched as positions on gay marriage (etc) have changed based on the popular wind (see what Biden, Obama, Clinton, and others said about it in the 90s... has anything changed other than what has become popular/trendy?)
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Dewey is a nice guy.
Who gives a flying fuck weither he is gay? It's 2024. Judge people by their character, not by their sexual preferences.
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 12:26 last edited by@Klaus said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Dewey is a nice guy.
Who gives a flying fuck weither he is gay? It's 2024. Judge people by their character, not by their sexual preferences.
God cares.
God cares who stands behind the church pulpit and preaches His Word. While all are welcome in the church - for we are all sinners, saved only by Grace - not all are welcome to lead his flock.
It doesn't matter if it's 1024, 2024 or 3024. God remains the same. His expectations remain the same.
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@Klaus said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Dewey is a nice guy.
Who gives a flying fuck weither he is gay? It's 2024. Judge people by their character, not by their sexual preferences.
God cares.
God cares who stands behind the church pulpit and preaches His Word. While all are welcome in the church - for we are all sinners, saved only by Grace - not all are welcome to lead his flock.
It doesn't matter if it's 1024, 2024 or 3024. God remains the same. His expectations remain the same.
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 12:48 last edited by Doctor Phibes@Jolly said in Dewey wrote a book!:
@Klaus said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Dewey is a nice guy.
Who gives a flying fuck weither he is gay? It's 2024. Judge people by their character, not by their sexual preferences.
God cares.
God cares who stands behind the church pulpit and preaches His Word. While all are welcome in the church - for we are all sinners, saved only by Grace - not all are welcome to lead his flock.
It doesn't matter if it's 1024, 2024 or 3024. God remains the same. His expectations remain the same.
I'd humbly suggest that Martin Luther, the father of Protestantism, said some really unspeakable things, at least to modern ears, but people follow many of his teachings with no problem at all.
What is considered acceptable has definitely changed over the years.
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@Klaus said in Dewey wrote a book!:
Dewey is a nice guy.
Who gives a flying fuck weither he is gay? It's 2024. Judge people by their character, not by their sexual preferences.
God cares.
God cares who stands behind the church pulpit and preaches His Word. While all are welcome in the church - for we are all sinners, saved only by Grace - not all are welcome to lead his flock.
It doesn't matter if it's 1024, 2024 or 3024. God remains the same. His expectations remain the same.
wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 12:51 last edited by@Jolly said in Dewey wrote a book!:
God cares.
Well, you care. But fortunately the number of people who think that way shrinks rapidly and is dying out, probably way before 3024.
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wrote on 18 Oct 2024, 13:02 last edited by
I'd humbly suggest that Martin Luther, the father of Protestantism, said some really unspeakable things, at least to modern ears, but people follow many of his teachings with no problem at all.
I'd humbly suggest that Martin Luther is not God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit or even Paul.