Didn’t expect this leftist garbage from a Baptist church.
Edit: thanks for the support pedes. My faith in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit is not diminished. I’m just disappointed in the pastor. I will keep looking for a church that is rooted in God only.
Here's a homework assignment - there is an early Christian text written in the first century (just as the text that make up the New Testament). It's called the Didache. It's essentially a kind of first century manual for new Christians in a community area that need to establish a church body. It was copied by scribes down until about the 4th century.
It's made up of different thematic sections. One of those sections goes over tenets of Christian morality and ethics (i.e., what Christians in the first century thought about these matters).
Every Christian should read the Didache and be familiar with this, because you will see pretty much all the morality issues that we're dealing with today were going on in the Hellenistic Roman Empire of the first century, and Christians took a position.
You'll see things addressed like:
The church started from these moral precepts in the first century. If you see any church, any denomination deviating from them, caving in on them today, that should be regarded as loudly clanging alarm bell to wake up to what is going on.
The Ancient Church still exists.
Eastern Orthodox people worship the same way they did 1000 years ago.
Thanks for bringing the Didache to my attention.
I found a couple links, but can you help identify the section that mentions pederasty? Thanks in advance.
http://www.thedidache.com/
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm
Here is a translation from the Greek from a scholar that is very expert in the Greek of that era, that pertains to the bullet items I listed:
When I did the search "pederasty definition" this is the top listing that came up:
ped•er•as•ty n. Unnatural carnal union of males with males, especially boys. n. Sexual activity between two males; sodomy; the “crime against nature“; -- used especially when one partner is a boy. n. Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.
Thank you, I appreciate the answer. With the information you gave, I have found this in support.
http://facsimiliter.com/Documents/DidacheIlnr.htm
You might be wondering if the phrase "do not abort a fetus" is really an accurate translation. Here is what the scholar that did this translation has to say when asked that question:
Didache and the Church Fathers to the rescue.
Warning though to the non-Catholics/Orthodox out there: these writings can call a lot of things into question.