Comments on: Ray Boltz

By: Paul JAckson

Paul JAckson — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:23:42 +0000

What is Ray doing now? Has he returned to Christ and his family?

By: Mike Grello

Mike Grello — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:27:02 +0000

No, we “red letter Christians” insist that the wholly sacred scripture is best interpreted in the light of the words of Jesus.

By: Darius T

Darius T — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:25:31 +0000

The danger in the thinking of Mike and other “Red letter Christians” is that they pit Jesus’ words against the rest of Scripture like you can take one but not the other. Jesus clearly affirmed the authority of Scripture, so why should we think otherwise?

By: Darius T

Darius T — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:22:52 +0000

“You say you judge according to the words of Christ (which is good), but Christ did not say one single word condemning GLBT people; rather you judge by societal prejudices, extra-biblical traditions…”

You forget one other thing… the rest of the Scriptures. Jesus’ words make up a minority of the Scripture, and He never said that His words were more important than the rest of Scripture, just equal to it.

By: Mike Grello

Mike Grello — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:06:56 +0000

You know what is sad? That this man dedicated many years to the Lord, and has now after all this time, you people are willing to roast him over the fire. Is it possible, just possible, that YOU could be mistaken about the meaning of a half a dozen difficultly translated passages? Is it possible that God could be speaking in earnest to someone other than you, and without your permission? Have you researched this issue? Have you scoured the scriptures for ANY scripture that may prove you mistaken? Is it possible that there are such scripture, and they are no more ambiguous (and in many cases much less so) that are affirming of gay believers. This, in the final analysis, is the saddest of all; God gave you all that brain and you let someone else think for you!

By: Hman127

Hman127 — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:06:36 +0000

The sad part is that this man dedicated many years to the Lord, and has now after all this time, decided to come out. God is not a God of confusion, and he gives us a freewill. We are made in his image and likeness, but not made to choose what path of life to take. How dare us say that God made us this way, that is an excuse to do what we want. When Jesus was tempted, he let us know that with temptation God always makes a way for escape. For whatever reason we must pray for others, but only they can want change in they’re lives. When what we do for Christ is right and legitimate, we dont have to stand up for ourselves for he will be our defence. Truly this is a praying time for Christians and this issue, but we still must speak the truth.

By: Mike Grello

Mike Grello — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:35:27 +0000

You say you you judge according to the words of Christ (which is good), but Christ did not say one single word condemning GLBT people; rather you judge by societal prejudices, extra-biblical traditions and, ironically, byt what “feels good” to you and how you would exercise lusts.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:34:34 +0000

No…sin is what is done, alot of times in secret. The body of Christ is always available at some point. This sin of homosexuality is just like anything else we are tempted in to do.
The Word says, “Resist the devil and he will flee”, but it also says in the same place to ‘submit yourself to God’.

I do believe that we can judge a believer according to the spoken testimony of Christ living in them as a proclamation of their salvation and in calling out the sin, it doesn’t mean we don’t care or love the fallen one.

However, we are to speak truth and this is the truth, homosexuality is just sin…plain and simple. It is succumbing to the fleshly desires.
At a point, too, Mr. Boltz has probably had some contact in that world. He probably has left an open “spot” unattended and he probably has played with the lure of the temptation.
We are drawn away by our lusts. You see, to want, you do/take.

I know that it grieves us all and we want nothing more than to see Mr. Boltz to repent and turn back to his proper place of his creation of a man, but we do know that that is his choice and God has given him the ability to choose.
Our part is to tell the truth, not be afraid or ashamed to speak the truth and love him in that place back into a redeemed position in the body.

By: Mike Grello

Mike Grello — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:19:26 +0000

pedro Said:
October 30th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

“The bible says not to judge, but it also says you will know a tree by its fruits. A lot of times we as christians do not care enough about each other to see when we need the friendship of a christian. Is this what happend to our friend? Did we as his family let him get to close to sin and not care? Sin is sin period.”

I would say this is what IS happening to our friend, sin is sin period so when God tells Peter “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”, it would be a sin to withdraw fellowship from a brother whom God has created differently than ourselves, no? It is true that Ray, and all of us, needs the friendship of Christians.

By: Mike Grello

Mike Grello — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:13:03 +0000

Jon payan Said:
October 30th, 2008 at 2:26 pm

“that is totaly wrong!!! Im not really religious, but i do know that in the Bible, Sodom, and gomora, was destroyed because , of gays.”

Jon,
Perhaps if you were more “religious” you would have read Ezekiel 16:49,50 which explains why Sodom was destroyed, ” Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.” When we stop bopping our neighbor over the head with the Bible long enough to read it, we find amazing things!