Without Excuse: Apologetics Blog

In order to answer this question, we need to separate the feelings from the act. By "feelings" I mean the emotions of same-sex attraction, and by "act" I mean the actual physical act of intercourse. A person may not necessarily choose to feel a certain way. And there may be environmental factors for why a person is attracted to the same sex, but that is another topic. There are people who don't want to be attracted to the same sex and legitimately struggle with it. That tells us people don't always get to choose how they feel. But feelings are just that, feelings. And Feelings are never the bases for determining what is right and wrong. Having same-sex attraction in itself does not make one gay nor is it a sin To use a crude analogy, think of it this way. If a person is thinking about robbing a bank, that does not him in a criminal nor does it break any laws. But once the person robs a bank he is a criminal and does break laws. It is the same way with ...

"For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins." -Pseudo-Ephraem This is in response to Pseudo-Ephraem does not teach the Rapture! I would like to address some of the statements made by this website. "The false teachers who believe pre-tribulation Rapture theology desperately misuse an ancient document called, "Pseudo-Ephraem" as proof that someone before 1830 AD believed it." I first want to take issue with calling those who teach the pre-tribulation rapture "false teachers". The Bible defines a false teacher as 1)One who denies Jesus is Christ (1Jo 2:22), 2)one who preaches a different gospel, which is defined as the good news concerning Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection, according to the Scriptures (Gal 1:19), and 3)Exhibits qualities that are unbecoming of a Christian ...

There are many accusations against the pre-tribulation rapture, everything from people calling it lies to heretical. Some even going so far to say that if someone believe in the pretrib they are not saved. This is nonsense. It appears to me this sort of venom is directed almost exclusively towards pre-trib believers and is unbecoming of how Christians should behave toward one another. One common accusation is that John Darby got his ideas from a vision of a 15 year old Scottish girl named Margaret MacDonald. Let's put this myth to rest once and for all. Firstly Morgan Edwards suggested a pre-trib rapture some 86 years before Darby*. If you want to go back further, Pseudo-Ephraim made a pre-trib statement in the 4th to 8th century**. The concept of imminency, a crucial feature of pretribulationism, was spoken of by many Apostolic Fathers including Clement of Rome, Ignatius of Antioch, The Didache, The Epistle of Barnabas, and The Shepherd of Hermas. Second, John Darby coalesced...