Comments on: Exodus president calls 'covenant friendships' sinful

By: Camille

Camille — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:45:49 +0000

This is …weird. Doesn’t the bible say something about shunning the very appearance of evil and something else about fleeing sexual immorality. Get real! A commitment ceremony? To what? Always being friends? That’s what the label “best friends” is for. This is a setup, nothing more than compromise at best and something…weird (evil) at worst. You’re playing games with sin and losing miserably.

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By: elder jimmy

elder jimmy — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:18:48 +0000

C’mon, cut the comedy! “A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump”. It is MOVING INwith temptation. It’s like a sex addict moving accross the street from a porno shop. Like an alcoholic getting a job in a liquor store. All this is is an attempt to get around the truth of scripture. The sexual realtionship is a side effect of the heart’s intention. The real issue with the LORD is a pure heart and a pure heart wants to please the LORD in every way ;even if there is struggle and pain and disappointment involved. The way is narrow. In the greek the word narrow means “tight”.

By: gcmwatch

gcmwatch — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:52:56 +0000

@GNP….I got your analogy

Stephen, I agree with you. Its like taking fire to your bosom and expecting not to get burned.

By: Stephen Archer

Stephen Archer — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:35:34 +0000

It is a cruel thing to enter a ‘friendship covenant’ when the person knows that he or she has sexual desires, and a definite appetite.
It looks good on the cover, but really underneath it all, it spells death.
I also think that it leads to thinking that there is nothing wrong with masturbation which is a sin. Anything that takes place of the affection due to God is sin. Masturbation is in effect setting up in your mind someone or yourself as the object of adoration, and acting out physically stimulating the sexual organ. Another word for this is Idolatry.
So to enter such a covenant with oneself and another is a hard feat and similar to what God warns in Scripture:

When a man voweth a vow unto Jehovah, or sweareth an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word; he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth. [ Numbers 30:2 ]

That person is putting a yoke upon himself that is hard to follow, especially when persons are coming together with same desires, even though ‘not acting them out’.
All in all, ‘friendship covenanting’ is an evil practice that is not biblical and really comes out of a sense of piety, but isn’t pious at all. It is only surface. It is a form of legalism that one would see on the exterior, but when push comes to shove, in secret, the same things happen and it all turns out to be no covenant at all.

By: GNP22

GNP22 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:03:28 +0000

Be it “regular” or “diet,” a cola is still “cola.” You can usually tell regular from diet version. The diet version is chosen when one is trying to watch their caloric intake, so they satisfy the craving for real, sweetened cola by drinking the one with artificial sweetener. Most folks I know would prefer the regular, high-calorie version simply because it “tastes better.”

Somehow, in a way, this posting reminded me of that. Covenant friendship seems really “close to the edge” and somewhere along the way, it could become what it shouldn’t.–an intimate same-sex relationship, because that is what they really want anyway.

This may be a wierd analogy, but I think the point is understood.