How many times does God need to say something is wrong for it to be wrong?
How many times does God need to say something is wrong for it to be wrong? If people want to tell others their ungodly behaviour is good…
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The Church’s teachings on sex are Biblically based
“The Church’s teachings on sex are Biblically based. You can label the Bible as a hateful book, but when 100% of the verses addressing homosexual behaviour describe it as sin in the clearest and strongest possible terms, and 100% of the verses referring to God’s ideal for marriage involve one man and one woman, and…
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The harm hypothesis v1
One way to understand hate, is in terms of harm. The fact of harm can be part of a test for hate. It is in this sense that the following harm hypothesis hangs together with the hate hypothesis. This is the current formulation: The Alliance Church harms people who have a disposition towards homosexuality…
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Basest form of sinful conduct
Alliance Church rules, like those of other evangelical denominations, strongly oppose homosexual relationships, describing them as the “basest form of sinful conduct.” The Tyee 2012 Vancouver Sun 2007
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What are the tests and criteria for hate speech
Does the moral condemnation of homosexual conduct meet the criteria for hate speech? I’m no legal expert, but the answer, I think, is probably no…
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Hate-the-sin doctrine versus the homosexuality-is-a-sin principle
I have been reflecting on this idea that we should hate the sin, not the sinner…
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The role of women in the church
The role of women in ministry within the Alliance Church of Canada seems to be in some kind of transition…
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Homosexuality in the membership and Ministership
The Manual has a policy that folks who endorse homosexuality cannot be ministers, license issuers or appointed to serve in the church…
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Homosexual conduct is a sin
The evidence suggests that the Alliance Church, like the Catholic Church, deems all homosexual conduct a sin…
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On human sexuality
The Alliance Church’s official doctrine appears to be something like this. Healthy sexuality is essentially procreative. Recreational sexuality is not procreative and not healthy. Sexuality that is not healthy is sinful. Sexuality that is not fundamentally procreative is sinful. Homosexuality is not procreative. Homosexuality is therefore a sin. Pornography is also sinful. Humans that deliberately…