Excerpts From Tony Miano over at On the Box:
Quote:
On today's
edition of On the Box, we
talked about the following story
by Wendy Geller of Yahoo Music:
The 29-year-old
country superstar and former American Idol, who was raised Baptist, explained
her position on the social debate in a recent interview with the Independent.
"Above all, God wanted us to love others," she noted. "It's not
up to me to judge anyone."
Underwood, who is
married to hockey star and fellow Christian Mike Fisher, says she and her
husband attend a gay-friendly nondenominational church. "As a
married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry
somebody I love," she said. "I can't imagine how that must
feel."
"I
definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the
people that we want to love."
Underwood has
been open about her faith throughout her career, and marked her first No. 1 hit
with the religiously themed "Jesus Take The Wheel." Fisher's official
sports website includes a testimony section in which he explains his personal
relationship with Christ.
Sadly, it looks
like Carrie Underwood, who professes to be a Christian, has taken
back the wheel.
A genuine follower of
Jesus Christ would not do the following:
"You love
evil more than good, and lying more than speaking what is right.
Selah" (Psalm 52:3).
"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" (Isaiah 5:20)!
"Though they know God's
righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not
only do them but give approval to those who practice them" (Romans 1:32).
A genuine follower of
Jesus Christ would agree with the Word of God:
"Therefore a
man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they
shall become one flesh" (Genesis 2:24)."He answered, 'Have you not
read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and
said, "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast
to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh"? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has
joined together, let not man separate.'” (Matthew 19:4-6)?
"But from
the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ 'Therefore a
man shall leave his father and mother and hold
fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no
longer two but one flesh" (Mark 1o:6-8).
"Therefore God gave them up in the
lusts of their hearts to impurity, to
the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth
about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to
dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those
that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations
with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing
shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their
error" (Romans 1:24-27).
"Or do
you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not
be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians
6:9-10).
“Therefore a man
shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall
become one flesh” (Ephesians 5:21).
"Now we
know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that
the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for
the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their
fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice
homosexuality, enslavers,
liars, perjurers, and whatever
else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory
of the blessed God with which
I have been entrusted" (1 Timothy 1:8-11).
"But as for
the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually
immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake
that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death" (Revelation
21:8).
Carrie Underwood,
assuming she was quoted accurately, gives every indication she is a Christian
in name only; for she calls evil (homosexuality) good, and she does not believe
the Bible.
Carrie Underwood
has taken the wheel from the Jesus of the Bible and has given it to a false
Jesus she has created in her imagination--a Jesus who approves of homosexuality
and perverted form of love that is nothing more than sinful lust. Underwood,
like so many other professing Christians is committing idolatry of the mind;
and no idolater will inherit the kingdom of Heaven (see 1 Corinthians 6:9).
Christians must stop
dubbing stars ambassadors of Christ.
Over the years,
Christians have shown a tendency to jump on the bandwagon of any actor, singer,
beauty queen, musician, politician, business mogul, or athlete who refers to
themselves as a "Christian." I believe Christians do this, in part,
because they desperately want to show the world that Christianity is relevant
to the masses and acceptable among society's elite.
Yet in doing so
Christians, more often than not, latch themselves not to rising Christian stars
on the world's stage, but falling false convert stars who need to repent and
believe the gospel. No one is
a Christian simply because they mention the name of Jesus in their acceptance
speeches, song titles, political platforms, or post-game interviews. And more
often than not, what comes out of the mouths of professing celebrity Christians
reveals the true condition of their hearts.
Carrie Underwood may
be a case in point.
While Underwood's
rhetoric might be in keeping with segments of mainstream American
Evangelicalism, it is not in keeping with biblical Christianity. And the "love" of which
she speaks regarding homosexual behavior is not a God-honoring, Christ-loving,
Bible-believing love. It is a sinful love that puts man's fleshly desires above
the will and Word of God. It is a sinful love that puts the love for the
creature over and above the love for the Creator (Romans 1:22-25).
My suggestion to
Carrie Underwood is that she takes her hands off the wheel,
repent, and believe the gospel. It is not enough for her to sing that Jesus
takes the wheel of her life if her beliefs indicate she is driving the car in
the wrong direction.
End quote.
[Bold except for
headings, mine; red, my emphasis; italics, original]
Tony goes on with a
personal note to Carrie Underwood, which I also suggest you read at his site in
the full
article.
I would
just like to make a comment about Carrie Underwood's false notion of not
judging. God never once commands Christians to not judge. In fact, He commands
us TO judge:
Mat 7:1 "Do not judge so that
you will not be judged.
Mat 7:2 "For in the way you
judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured
to you.
Mat 7:3 "Why do you look at the
speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your
own eye?
Mat 7:4 "Or how can you say to
your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is
in your own eye?
Mat 7:5 "You hypocrite, first
take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the
speck out of your brother's eye.
What is so often totally misquoted and
misapplied by "Christians" as well as the world, actually states that
the Christian is to judge (to distinguish or discern something as right or
wrong, good or bad), but not
hypocritically. We are to use the same standard: Scripture. We cannot point
to another of a sin they are committing if we ourselves are just as guilty of
it.
John 7:24 Do
not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.
Is. 8 20 To the law and to
the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light
of dawn.
Heb 5:14 But
solid food [of Scripture] is for the mature, for those who have their powers of
discernment trained by constant practice TO
DISTINGUISH good from evil.
Eph 5:11 Do not participate in the
unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them;12 for it is disgraceful even to speak of the
things which are done by them in secret.
It is Christians who can know
what is evil and good, right and wrong, because we have the Scriptures, know
the God of Truth, and have been
set free from our sins and
given eyes to see. Romans 2 goes on to say that even the Gentiles who do not
have the law, do things according to
the law because God has
written in their hearts; that is, they have a conscience of right and wrong
given by God. This makes the sin of
homosexuality so much worse,
because by nature, all men know its wrong. Their consciences rightly accuse
them, yet they supress the truth
for a lie.
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