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The Bible tells us what we should love, avoid, and even hate!

There has been much reporting of ‘hate’ crimes of late. It is rather strange that while the IRA were murdering hundreds of Protestants in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, there were very few references or headlines about ‘HATE’.

These last few days have rarely seen one go past without some news outlet using the word ‘HATE’ in a headline.

Invariably, the term is used of a crime committed against a non-native, black or Asian individual, whose person or property has come under attack from those who claim to be protesting against the disproportionately generous treatment of the immigrants who arrive in the UK illegally.

As is ever the case in such circumstances, many innocent, hard-working and legal immigrants become targets by those acting is a most loutish fashion.

I. THE BIBLE TEACHES US WHOM WE SHOULD LOVE.

From the beginning of time, God has expected His people to treat strangers with kindness. “‭Thou shalt neither vex‭‭ a stranger‭, nor oppress‭‭ him: for ye were strangers‭ in the land‭ of Egypt‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Exodus 22:21.

The Christian must ever act in the light of their estrangement from God. “‭Wherefore‭ remember‭‭, that‭ ye‭ ‭being‭ in time past‭ Gentiles‭ in‭ the flesh‭, who‭ are called‭‭ Uncircumcision‭ by‭ that which‭ is called‭‭ the Circumcision‭ in‭ the flesh‭ made by hands‭;‭ ‭that‭ at‭ that‭ time‭ ye were‭‭ without‭ Christ‭, being aliens‭‭ from the commonwealth‭ of Israel‭, and‭ strangers‭ from the covenants‭ of promise‭, having‭‭ no‭ hope‭, and‭ without God‭ in‭ the world‭:‭ ‭but‭ now‭ in‭ Christ‭ Jesus‭ ye‭ who‭ sometimes‭ were‭‭ far off‭ are made‭‭ nigh‭ by‭ the blood‭ of Christ‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Ephesians 2:11-13.

The true believe cannot but have an affinity with strangers.

We are not required to ignore sin or criminal activity amongst strangers but we are forbidden to oppose them simply because they are not ‘native born’. (more…)

The wicked walk on every side

Metropolitan Community Church Minster Teagan MacAodhagáin. Photo by Steve Humphreys 6th August 2024. (Belfast Telegraph)

THE WICKED WALK ON EVERY SIDE, WHEN THE VILEST MEN ARE EXALTED‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Psalms 12:8.

Teagan MacAodhagáin: Meet Ireland’s first transgender minister who was ordained in NI”, so ran the headline in the Belfast Telegraph of Saturday 10th August. The ‘church’ into which this ‘man’ has been ordained has been known from its beginning as ‘the gay church’!

“Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) (aka The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches or UFMCC) was founded in Los Angeles, California (USA) on October 6, 1968 by the Rev. Troy Perry.

Since then, MCC has grown from a few churches in the 1970s, when we were known as “the Gay Church,” to hundreds around the world by the 1980s when we became known as “the AIDS church,” to our current configuration which many dub “the Queer Church.” As a global movement comprising churches, spiritual communities, emerging ministries, clergy and lay leaders, human rights activists and many others, our goal is to “Transform Ourselves as we Transform the World.”

The writer of the articles is a well known advocate of all things that promote the ‘LGBTQI+ community’, Gareth Hanna! I have refuted him and his claims in a letter to the ‘Belfast Telegraph’, back last year. 

However, he and his like persist in their perversity, even though they are unable to answer what it is the Bible says.

What a day faces them when they meet with the AUTHOR of the Bible they cannot answer though they have lived to misrepresent its teachings!

“‭And‭‭ the times‭ of this ignorance‭ God‭ winked at‭‭; but now‭ commandeth‭‭ all‭ men‭ every where‭ to repent‭‭:‭ ‭Because‭ he hath appointed‭‭ a day‭, in‭ the which‭ he will‭‭ judge‭‭ the world‭ in‭ righteousness‭ by‭ ‭that‭ man‭ whom‭ he hath ordained‭‭; ‭whereof‭ he hath given‭‭ assurance‭ unto all‭ ‭men‭, in that he hath raised‭‭ him‭ from‭ the dead‭,‭”‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ Acts 17:30-31.

Latest Folly

In his latest article, Hanna reports on the ‘ordination’ of one who claims to be a ‘transgender’ though what he claims to have ‘metamorphosed’ from and what into, I cannot really be sure from Hanna’s scribblings. (more…)

First Minister Michelle O’Neill — The Embodiment of Hypocrisy!!

First Minister Michelle O’Neill spoke about the ‘real human impact’ of the violence

‘No place for racism in our society’, says O’Neill

 O’Neill leads a party which was allied with IRA terrorism which raged for decades here in Northern Ireland and which resulted in hundreds of innocent people, Protestant and Roman Catholic, being callously murdered. The chief motive of the IRA was a hatred of all things Protestant and British. Thus the Protestant and Unionist community chiefly were the targets of the IRA. Roman Catholics who were deemed to show any sympathy for the IRA’s chief victims, became targets also and were brutally murdered. The bodies of some of these victims have never been found!

For her to condemn ‘RACISM’ is so ridiculous to be laughable!  Sadly, she and her party hold office only because of the blatantly foolish action of the Democratic Unionist Party entering into nefarious agreement to share power with them back in 2007. Blind greed and grasping after power was the DUP’s motive for such an utter contempt for all its former promises to never share power with Sinn Fein/IRA. That greed was bolstered by a confidence in its own ‘political skills’!

We are where we are today because of that arrogance and mercenariness!

The hypocrisy of O’Neill was shared by the DUP in that she was joined in this statement, we are told, by the DUP, Deputy First Minister, Emma Little-Pengelly.

It would appear that the DUP has either forgotten the years of IRA terror and murder or simply, for the sake of maintaining their apparent position of power, which is in truth a mere ‘spider’s web of make-believe’, shut them out of their minds! (more…)