The Minimum Wages of Sin

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Episode Notes

Episode 13: Minimum Wages of Sin

Not Necessarily the Good News

In September of this year, a story was reported out of Blackwell OK. A young man had come out to his parents early in the spring of this year. Since then, he and his boyfriend had repeatedly been invited to come to the First Assembly of God Church, the church that this young man had attended with his family prior to his coming out where his parents were youth pastors. Finally, the couple did attend a service one Sunday. Everything in the service began normally, but then - during a sermon about homosexuality, things took a turn.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/09/gay-couple-attacked-church-held-prayed-turn-straight/

https://www.advocate.com/religion/2019/9/17/gay-man-says-he-was-held-down-assaulted-homophobic-church

The More You Know

Christianity is about the individual and their individual relationship with God. Sin disrupts that relationship. There is a school of study about Sin called Hamartiology, based on the greek word the New Testament uses for sin: Hamartia, means, “Missing the Mark.” Harmaritolgists, philosophers, and theologians have ideas about what qualifies as sin, and more importantly, why we sin. They came up with some helpful guidelines based on some very old ideas. They divided sins into mortal and venial, based on the scriptural idea that some sins end in death, and others are pardonable, given genuine contrition.

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