Bible Lecturer Sacked and Threatened with Counter-Terrorism Referral for Comments on Homosexuality
The Bible brings Methodist Bible College into disrepute. Awkward.
A Christian Bible college in the UK didn’t just sack a theology lecturer for tweeting that homosexuality was a sin, it threatened to report him to counter terrorism authorities!
That’s right. Expressing a Biblical view of sexuality is now on par with making a bomb in your basement.
And that’s what the so-called Christians think.
Meanwhile, if you threaten to cut off a school teacher’s head because he showed students a picture of Mohammad, nothing happens. But I digress.
Dr Aaron Edwards, 37, was sacked from Methodist Cliff College, Derbyshire, after he was found to have brought it “into disrepute”.
Question: How do you bring a Methodist college into disrepute?
Answer: You espouse Biblical theology.
That wasn’t a joke. That’s the literal truth.
The Methodist Church decided last year to agree with homosexual marriage. So if you state a Biblical view on sexuality you are bringing the Methodists into disrepute!
Here’s the offending tweet from Dr Edwards. A tweet that ended his 7-year tenure at Cliff College …
The tweet went viral and sparked a widespread debate.
As if to prove that homosexuality had indeed invaded the church, church leaders sacked Dr Edwards and threatened to report him to Prevent, the UK’s counter terrorism program.
Prevent deals with people who express extremist views and seeks to walk them away from hate that may lead to acts of terror.
If that’s what the college did to Dr Edwards, imagine what they would have done to the Apostle Paul!
What becomes of a Christian denomination that sacks Bible college lecturers for holding to Biblical truth?
They end up with a 164,000 members in a population of 67 million, that’s what.
When church leaders say precisely what society wants them to say, they should not be surprised to find society no longer has need of their church.
In June last year, the Methodist Church become the biggest religious group in Britain to say yes to same-sex marriages.
The move - which followed debates at a Methodist Conference - was hailed by campaigners as a “momentous step on the road to inclusion”.
Some Christians believe the greatest step on the road to inclusion was God’s decision to take on human flesh and to die as one of us for our sins. Or the church could just bless gay marriages. Whatever.
The Methodist Bible college has no use for Dr Edwards since he insists on teaching students the Bible. It’s awkward.
Martin Luther famously stood for Biblical truth and declared, “Here I sand, I can do no other”.
Many churches today are far more comfortable with “Here I lay down, I can do no other”.
Time to replace that shingle over their door from ‘Methodist’ to ‘Ichabod’ - for the glory of God has departed. Seems mainstream churches are increasingly seeing their role to conform to the culture around them rather than confront the culture with the unerring and unchanging word of God.
I guess the idea of being hated for the sake of Jesus is just too much for the contemporary church to handle. Fat chance they’ll be hated by the culture when you can’t tell the two apart.
Of course it’s all done in a self righteous effort to make sure they’re on the ‘road to inclusion’ which sounds awfully similar to a certain wide path that leads to destruction.
Looks like the great falling away is in full swing. Maranatha!
Another apostate church…. Sigh….we were warned this would happen