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Regarding recent news
10 years ago
Good evening everyone, Jude here! With some prompting by the Holy Spirit (acting through some good friends of mine) today I'm presenting you with some important information relating to the SCOTUS ruling last Friday.
What's CFF stance on homosexuality?
While a more in-depth study is forthcoming, we would like the state the following now:
The Christian Furry Fellowship affirms the biblical truth that engaging in sexual activity with someone of the same gender is sinful. In addition, we affirm that the Bible - except in regards to lust and wanton desire - does not directly speak about the attractions and feelings that make up most of what constitutes a person's sexuality. We believe that one's sexuality isn't always chosen or voluntary.
Sexual temptation, indeed all temptation, is ugly and powerful, but CFF is a safe place. This community exists to provide mutual support and grow in Christ, to seek and receive help with our temptations. You will not be hated for being homosexual here. You will be loved and supported in your fight to love and serve God obediently and completely - mind, soul and body.
What's CFF stance on same-sex marriage?
(Again, a more in-depth study is forthcoming.)
CFF's position here requires a brief clarification of terms.
We have a "secular" or civil domestic union, where they record that two individuals are living and working together, for the purpose of whatever paperwork or bureaucracy requires that data. Governments only started keeping track of these unions for their own purposes (such as taxes or policy) less than 300 years ago.
Next we have have a "religious" or "cultural" union, thousand of years old that was instituted in the earliest of cultures for stability, long-term protection and procreation. For Bible-trusting Christians, there is an additional deeper meaning and symbolism behind this union.
(You'll note that "love" - at least in the definition most use nowadays - was never the primary purpose or reasoning for marriage.)
Unfortunately, in today's world, they both go by the name "marriage" which has lead to a muddling of purpose and an unfair "merging" of the two into one hybrid institution. That's not to say that the two are mutually exclusive, just that they aren't the same thing.
The Supreme Court of the United States may have redefined the definition of civil marriage but they did not do anything to change cultural or "religious" marriage. And for the Christian, for reasons that I'll explain later, they really cannot.
CFF is perfectly okay with those who choose to enter into such civil marriages, just as long as they do not try to put words in God's mouth, or assert that He's "changed his mind" about what He says about marriage. (We still hold that sexual activity between two individuals of the same sex is sinful and can not accept its normalization.)
The Bible gives a pattern for what God considers a spiritual marriage - the lifelong union of a man and a woman, for the having and raising of children, for the increasing Christlike-ness of the husband and wife and as a living symbol demonstrating the commitment and love between God and His people (or Jesus and the Church).
We know that many of these perspectives are not popular - with either Christians or or the LGBT community - but this is the only fair position to hold that gives proper justice to what is clearly taught in the Scriptures.
What's CFF stance on homosexuality?
While a more in-depth study is forthcoming, we would like the state the following now:
The Christian Furry Fellowship affirms the biblical truth that engaging in sexual activity with someone of the same gender is sinful. In addition, we affirm that the Bible - except in regards to lust and wanton desire - does not directly speak about the attractions and feelings that make up most of what constitutes a person's sexuality. We believe that one's sexuality isn't always chosen or voluntary.
Sexual temptation, indeed all temptation, is ugly and powerful, but CFF is a safe place. This community exists to provide mutual support and grow in Christ, to seek and receive help with our temptations. You will not be hated for being homosexual here. You will be loved and supported in your fight to love and serve God obediently and completely - mind, soul and body.
What's CFF stance on same-sex marriage?
(Again, a more in-depth study is forthcoming.)
CFF's position here requires a brief clarification of terms.
We have a "secular" or civil domestic union, where they record that two individuals are living and working together, for the purpose of whatever paperwork or bureaucracy requires that data. Governments only started keeping track of these unions for their own purposes (such as taxes or policy) less than 300 years ago.
Next we have have a "religious" or "cultural" union, thousand of years old that was instituted in the earliest of cultures for stability, long-term protection and procreation. For Bible-trusting Christians, there is an additional deeper meaning and symbolism behind this union.
(You'll note that "love" - at least in the definition most use nowadays - was never the primary purpose or reasoning for marriage.)
Unfortunately, in today's world, they both go by the name "marriage" which has lead to a muddling of purpose and an unfair "merging" of the two into one hybrid institution. That's not to say that the two are mutually exclusive, just that they aren't the same thing.
The Supreme Court of the United States may have redefined the definition of civil marriage but they did not do anything to change cultural or "religious" marriage. And for the Christian, for reasons that I'll explain later, they really cannot.
CFF is perfectly okay with those who choose to enter into such civil marriages, just as long as they do not try to put words in God's mouth, or assert that He's "changed his mind" about what He says about marriage. (We still hold that sexual activity between two individuals of the same sex is sinful and can not accept its normalization.)
The Bible gives a pattern for what God considers a spiritual marriage - the lifelong union of a man and a woman, for the having and raising of children, for the increasing Christlike-ness of the husband and wife and as a living symbol demonstrating the commitment and love between God and His people (or Jesus and the Church).
We know that many of these perspectives are not popular - with either Christians or or the LGBT community - but this is the only fair position to hold that gives proper justice to what is clearly taught in the Scriptures.
Also, Paul, who wrote Revelation with uncanny knowledge of an atheist nation from the north before the world had ever had such a nation, also supports traditional marriage.
I recall on ministry's statement was "we won't make you strait, we'll turn you over to God and let him make you into whatever he need's you to be."