Anti-Gay church sold building to Anti-Gay church. United Pentecostal Church International. (UPCI). Stedfast Baptist.
New Life Apostolic Church and their selling their building to Stedfast Baptist.
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What Pastor John Denmon said about his church and what the reality is.
From the Dallas Morning News article:
The church bought its current location from Cedar Hill’s New Life Apostolic Church, which recently moved to a new building. Pastor John Denmon said he did not know who his congregation was selling their building to. “I do not agree with their positions on the Jews, on the trans community, [LGBTQ] — I do not agree with any of that.
Technically this is probably true since he isn’t advocating specifically a call for the government to execute Gays.
This is the New Life Apostolic Church website which doesn’t say much.
It appears that his church is a member of the United Pentecostal Churches International (UPCI).
This is what they say about homosexuality.
https://upci.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The_Biblical_View_of_Human_Sexuality.pdf
Some quotes from this gurgling burbling view. They inform the reader that they use the King James Version of the Bible like Stedfast does.
God placed restrictions on human sexuality. As such the Bible presents fornication, adultery, polygamy, homosexuality, bestiality, incest, and transgenderism as improper expressions of human sexuality.
Further in the document.
Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites . . . will inherit the kingdom of God” (I Corinthians 6:9-10).
There is further in the document a section on homosexuality.
Homosexuality is defined as “sexual attraction and behavior between members of the same sex or gender.” God’s Word is very clear regarding homosexual behavior. In the Old Testament, God commanded His people, “You shall not lie with a male, as with a woman. It is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22). In the New Testament, Paul wrote, “For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due” (Romans 1:26-27). Paul asked: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? . . . Neither fornicators, . . . nor homosexuals . . .” (I Corinthians 6:9).
Though not directly stated, these sections of the Bible, Leviticus, Romans, see death as the penalty for Gays.
Leviticus in chapter 20:13 King James is as follows:
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Even the sections immediatly after Leviticus 18:22 make it clear that homosexuals are not to be tolerated. If homosexuality is tolerated the Bible tells them that their nation will be destroyed like the nations which the Israelites replace. A self-serving story from a fervid dream of some religious person deciding to use fear to boss around the Israelites.
24: Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
25And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
26Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
27(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
28That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
29For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
30Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
The a longer quotation from Romans shows also the policy is death for homosexuals.
26:For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27:And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28:And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29:Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30:Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31:Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32:Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
The difference between New Life Apostolic Church and many other churches and Stedfast Baptist Church, is that Stedfast Baptist Church says the quite part outloud.
Stedfast Baptist Church is merely the pot of boiling Christian homophobic hate boiling over.
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There are getting to be a lot of posts regarding Stedfast. I am going to make a directory post with links to the different posts and put the the link here.
The following is a post that is a directory to posts on anti-Gay entities in the Dallas area or involved with spreading their homophobia in Dallas.
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