Newlywed Couple and supporters (Jean-Pierre Dalbéra)

The Methodist Church has had problems for some time regarding its unbiblical stances on many topics, particularly those involving marriage and sexuality. Notice one report:

January 4, 2024
MYRNA BROWN, HOST: And I’m Myrna Brown. First up on The World and Everything in It: United no more.
The United Methodist Church is among the largest protestant denominations in America. It also has churches around the world. Over the last several years, significant divisions cropped up within the UMC over many issues, especially Biblical sexuality.
REICHARD: Nearly five years ago, a General Conference of the church met in St. Louis. Among other topics, they talked about whether to enforce Biblical doctrines of sexuality for church leadership. Sound here from that conference:
DELEGATE 1: Today, the church in Africa is growing in leaps and bounds because we are committed to biblical Christianity.
DELEGATE 2: With the traditional plan that adds teeth, you’ve not only alienated progressives but also centrists.
Delegates landed on a plan to allow churches to leave the denomination graciously with an application process and deadline of December 31st, 2023.
That was Sunday. Now more than 7,000 churches have left the UMC, many of them joining a new, more conservative denomination called the Global Methodist Church. …
REICHARD: Well, the church has a General Conference coming up in a few months…what do you expect to see happen as this story continues to develop?
RITTER: Well, in the United Methodist Church which I’m no longer a part of, I’m part of the global Methodist Church, but I watch the United Methodist Church closely and there’s two competing moves that are coming to the April General Conference. One is to change teaching on marriage, and the other is to regionalize the church. https://wng.org/podcasts/united-no-more-1704303329

Now, notice also the following:

Methodists Worry About Offending Everyone But God
January 4, 2024
The Methodist Church in the United Kingdom has released an “Inclusive Church Language Guide” urging parishioners to avoid using offensive words. …
In the Methodist Church, the words “husband” and “wife” are now listed as offensive. Church members are supposed to say “partner,” instead. Also offensive are the words “mom” or dad,” or “son” or “daughter.”
The idea is to not offend non-binary individuals. …
The universal standard to which Christians should strive was outlined by God, and God clearly states that certain behaviors are offensive to Him.
I’m curious why the church doesn’t seem to be concerned about offending God. https://danielbobinski.substack.com/p/methodists-worry-about-offending

In the Book of Genesis, God uses the word wife in its second chapter (Genesis 2:24) and the word husband in its third (Genesis 3:6). These words are used throughout the entire Bible, with “wife” used (in the NKJV) 389 times and husband being used 119 times.

Clearly they are biblical terms.

Jesus, Himself, made it clear that sex/gender is binary when He stated:

5 … Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? (Matthew 19:4-5)

Husbands and wives are to love each other:

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband. (Ephesians 5:25-33)
1 But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine: 2 that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience; 3 the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things — 4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5 to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. (Titus 2:1-5)
5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. (1 John 2:5)

Yet, the United Methodists clearly do not keep God’s word and hence cannot have “the love of God is perfected in them”.

God inspired the prophet Isaiah to write:

20 Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight! (Isaiah 5:20-21)

And while that is true for Protestantism in general, some like the United Methodists have become so anti-scriptural that they have lost over 7,000 churches according to the report at the beginning of this post.

Of course, it is not only the United Methodists that do that. Many in the ‘Interfaith’ movement do that as well. Related to that, we put out the following video:

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Interfaith movement pushing LGBTQ+ agenda
Deutsche Welle reported “LGBT conversion therapy: Religious leaders call for ban to ‘abhorrent’ practice.” 370 religious leaders around the world have declared their support for the LGBTQ+ agenda. They declare their support of the view of the World Health Organization that it is normal to not be cisgender heterosexual. They bemoan “that certain religious teachings have often, throughout the ages” (like those of the Bible) have “caused … offense to those who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex.” The Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives wants people to tell their religious leaders to sign a supportive “Global Declaration.’ Yet, this is in conflict with scripture. In this video, Dr. Thiel quotes scriptures from the Holy Bible that clearly oppose and condemn homosexuality, lesbianism, transgenderism, and male effeminacy. God is not the author of confusion. Dr. Thiel also quotes passages in the Bible where God warns what will happen to those who despise His statutes, abhors God’s judgments, so that you do not perform all His commandments. Dr. Thiel also points to the totalitarian system the interfaith agenda is moving towards.

Here is a link to the video: Interfaith movement pushing LGBTQ+ agenda.

And then, there are the Roman Catholics, whose pontiff recently approved blessings for those who opposed living according to biblical standards of morality. See Pope Francis authorizes his clergy to bless the abominable.

Buckling to the pressures of immorality, and not science or the Bible, the American Psychiatric Association put out a perverse-promoting book. The good news is that some doctors are calling them to remove it for its unscientific nature:

January 5, 2024
Nearly 170 health professionals have signed an open letter to the American Psychiatric Association (APA) condemning its new “gender-affirming” care textbook as “unacceptable, unethical and unsafe.”
Their open letter to the organization appears on the website of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, a free speech and civil liberties watchdog group. The signatories demand that the APA “explain why it glaringly ignored many scientific developments in gender-related care and to consider its responsibility to promote and protect patients’ safety, mental and physical health.”
The letter calls for the APA to suspend publication of the textbook, “Gender-Affirming Psychiatric Care,” released on Nov. 8. The textbook is intended to be used as a teaching tool for doctors in training.
“We seek an unbiased scientific investigation and discussion of the harms and benefits of all types of care offered to those with gender-related distress,” the letter states. “Until those concerns are addressed and the textbook’s errors corrected, we call on the APA for its withdrawal.”
Within 24 hours, more than 700 additional names had been added to the list of signatories.
The APA did not immediately respond to a request for comment by The Epoch Times. …
Dr. Hakeem, a London psychiatrist, formerly worked at the Tavistock gender clinic. He is the author of “Detrans: When Transition is Not the Solution,” which argues that no one is born in the “wrong body.”
He maintains that transitioning becomes a “false solution to a different problem” at a time of increasing pressure to affirm a person’s belief that he or she was born the wrong sex.
The idea of affirming gender confusion and medically altering a person’s body to fit a new gender identity is under scrutiny from clinicians and scientists worldwide.
Yet, those methods are recommended by the book’s authors.
Critics of the textbook argue in their letter that reviews of gender-affirming care in Sweden and England also did not support the idea that transitioning improves the mental health of patients.
They point out that the textbook relies on“evidence-informed” information, instead of the scientific standard that typically requires evidence-based information. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/disturbing-doctors-call-withdrawal-psychiatry-textbook-promoting-gender-affirming-care

Many wish to ignore true science, when they do not like the result.

As far as science and transgender matters go, we put out the following video:

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New Transgender Study
A new study on the side effects of transgender sex change surgeries was conducted by researchers at the University of Florida and the health non-profit Brooks Rehabilitation. The study found that 81% of those who had undergone sex change surgeries in the past five years reported experiencing pain simply from normal movement in the weeks and months that followed — and that many other side effects are manifesting themselves as well. How do Russia and the USA handle the transgender issue? What does the Bible say? What does science show? Does the Bible warn about children being oppressors and leaders causing people to err? Are God’s people supposed to, “Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins” (Isaiah 58:1)? Dr. Thiel and Steve Dupuie go over these topics.

Here is a link to our video: New Transgender Study.

Anyway, yes, there are some that are opposing the absurd.

But sadly, the United Methodists, many in the interfaith movement, many politicians, many in the health field, and many in academia do not.

Do not fall for the arguments of those that oppose the Bible.

And remember that it says, “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.”

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