Andrea's 2½ pages

My friend Andrea's response to the pro-gay video (see yesterday's column) was at least 2,000 words. But on a hunch that you might want to know what she had to say, I submit the following abbreviated report.

The backdrop of the video was bucolic Maine in autumn, and Andrea starts her letter this way:

"The first thing that struck me is how beautiful Maine is in the fall-time . . . and the second thing that struck me is how deceived with sad arrogance man is in the fall-time."

Well, then, Andrea evidently was not shaken to the core as I was, I thought. I read on, more relaxed already.

It was interesting to note that she didn't spend much time on the verses the video used to sanction homosexuality, except to say, "Rich and I have heard them over and over again on college campuses, as well as church conferences."

Instead, she went for a deeper level than the text-proofing approach:

"If you anchor these Scriptures to the nature of God, you soon understand that God is ONE-He is for unity, purity, and not for the mixing of fabrics that cannot hold within His design. The big mistake is when any of us hold up any aspect of our life to judge God's Word. This is . . . akin to Satan asking Eve, 'Did God really say?' One of the hopes . . . in being given God's Word is that I get to measure my life against the plumb line of His Word. Jesus said He is the Truth. If I believe Him, I follow Him-and He makes my crooked path straight. If I make God a liar, I shall follow my own will. . . .

"The argumentation is over who is God-it is not about sex. . . . But the only one arguing is us. God is in His heaven . . . chuckling . . . about our . . . carrying on so vaingloriously . . . for He is God. He doesn't have to argue the point. His Word is. . . .

"The 'salvation' message most of us hear in our churches today is of such a poverty that it keeps man in the temporal. Saint Paul said that if that is all salvation is-if Christ be only for now-let's eat, drink, and be merry. . . . However, if we do believe He came preaching THE KINGDOM OF GOD (a large and layered salvation)…all who have this hope purify themselves [1 John 3:3]. . . .

"We have become an issues-based community and not a people of God. If indeed we studied and followed hard after Christ-to understand and EXPERIENCE His Kingship and Kingdom-would we not be a people of JOY? . . . Would we not be a people so excited about the HOPE we have that we would be purifying ourselves, being made conformable to Christ . . . [so] that we would not be sidetracked by these argumentations? . . ."

Andrea goes on to talk about the initial experience of "freedom" in early lesbianism (later exposed as a counterfeit), saying it as akin to what John Muir described in his first summer in the Sierra. Then she contrasts it to the real deal in Christ-but I'll stop here. I hope you get the idea.

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