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Re: Merged Thread: Various Themes by Evangelical
Both have four legs. You can sit on both of them. One is a horse and the other is a chair. Few similarities between two objects, matters, situations, etc., do not automatically equate them. Everybody knows this but not everybody seems to apply this simple principle when it comes to make a point.
U.S.A. is a new Sodom. Why? Because U.S. passed a law that allows same sex marriage. I don't see how anyone by any stretch of the imagination could fail to see the flaw of this kind of argument.
Allowing people to marry whom they want doesn't make the entire country a Sodom.
“An earlier report published in April 2011 by the Williams Institute estimated that 3.8 percent of Americans identified as gay/lesbian, bisexual, or transgender: 1.7 percent as lesbian or gay, 1.8 percent as bisexual, and 0.3 percent as transgender.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_d..._United_States
We are talking about 3-4% of the population. In Sodom it was probably 99-100%.
"Christianity is the most adhered to religion in the United States, with 70% of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2014.[1] This is down from 86% in 1990, lower than 81.6% in 2001,[2] and slightly lower than 78% in 2012.[3] About 62% of those polled claim to be members of a church congregation.[4] The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, with nearly 280 million Christians, although other countries have higher percentages of Christians among their populations.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ..._United_States
Again, there is a striking difference between U.S. and Sodom. There are millions of believers in the U.S. There was not 1 (except Lot) righteous man in Sodom.
“Today, Christians who prefer to remain in Sodom characterizes the majority of Christians who consider America to be a great Christian nation or who attend denominations which support or bless homosexual marriage. Unfortunately, like Lot and his wife, their allegiance to their homeland clouds their judgement. In such a case, God raises up people like Abraham from outside Sodom, to rescue the "Lots" still living in the land of Sodom when time for God's judgement comes. We can consider Nee and Lee's ministry to be like Abraham's, coming to America from other lands, to rescue genuine Christians, the Lots, out of the depraved environment.” (Evangelical)
Though I highly esteem Nee and his ministry ( I cannot say the same for Lee), why limiting the function of an Abraham only to Nee and Lee? Would not a Spurgeon do? Would not a Wesley do? Would not a Hudson Taylor do? Would not a Bonhoeffer do? Weren't they all non American citizens?
But in any case you are forgetting that Abraham did not set foot in Sodom. He only prayed for the city (or to save Lot?). It was God, trough angels that pulled Lot out of Sodom.
There is another question that you have to consider. W. Lee said that U.S. is going to be the wilderness spoken of in Revelation, a place were people will flee from the coming tribulation. Now, if the U.S. is Sodom, and Sodom was and is going to be destroyed by God, isn't that absurd and ironic that people fleeing from the frying pan will jump into the fire?
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