Thread by @Tammy_Beth

@GovMikeHuckabee But... what if you're wrong?
Let's do a thought experiment. This will take several tweets but stick with me. You're a Southern Baptist. So was I for 40ish years. The SBC (among others) insists that LGBT people are living outside the law of God. Okay, but what if they're wrong? 1/

@GovMikeHuckabee "Oh", but you'll say, "the Bible CLEARLY says..." - Yes yes BUT we've heard that before, haven't we? Do you remember Sen. Bilbo of Mississippi? In 1948 (47?) he took to the well of the U.S. Senate and preached that segregation was demanded by God's Law. He was no outlier... 2/

@GovMikeHuckabee as you know. The SBC was literally founded on the premise of White Supremacy, and a bloody war didn't change their mind or their doctrines. For another CENTURY they defended the premise. You're old enough you were alive while it still went on. Do you personally believe that... 3/

@GovMikeHuckabee this doctrine was correct? WAS, in point of fact, racial segregation demanded by God's Law?This isn't ancient history, you were alive while this was still going on. So - were they right or wrong?
I'm going to assume here that you answer "of course they were wrong"
(for 120 yrs)4/

@GovMikeHuckabee Thing is though - they were ABSOLUTELY SURE, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that they were completely correct. But they were wrong. And now, 50 years later (and for who knows how many years to come)God's people suffer in various ways because of that error. Many still believe it 5/

@GovMikeHuckabee Many many many believers suffered, all their life, and even died under the crushing weight of millions of white Baptists(and others)who were ABSOLUTELY SURE they were doing God's will. But they were wrong. And there's over a century of suffering accounted to them because of it 6/

@GovMikeHuckabee But
They were wrong. And they cannot do anything about it but beg forgiveness for over a century of purposely abusing their fellow human beings for whom Christ died based on an error that, let's be honest, was a case of reading their own personal bigotries into Scripture... 7/

@GovMikeHuckabee So I move the previous question: What if your wrong?
How many times is the church willing to repeat the same history, come out saying "We seem to have been wrong" and then run out to commit a similar error over again?
If you really believe in the God of the Bible and this is 8/

@GovMikeHuckabee not in actuality one colossal grift with no object but milking profit and power out of controlling the believers, if God is who the Bible says he is - are you REALLY willing to risk standing at the Judgement Seat and giving account for the same error our fathers made? AGAIN? 9/

@GovMikeHuckabee I mean, you claim that the Bible is crystal clear but we as a Church cannot even agree among ourselves the proper way for one to get saved -one would assume that to be THE most important message of Scripture, but we can't reach unanimous consensus?
If THAT wasn't unmistakeable...

@GovMikeHuckabee when there's nothing more important for us to know, then by what sane logic can anyone argue that the same God WAS crystal clear about his will for the proper use of the penis? REALLY?
THAT'S the priorities of the God you serve? No, you cannot rationally argue that.
So... 11/

@GovMikeHuckabee that being the case, the whole "crystal clear" thing goes out the window. Some believe it is sin, some do not, and there's no consensus anymore than their is about how you get saved or any of dozens of other central doctrines.
Again? What if you're wrong?
Consider church history

@GovMikeHuckabee No matter what you believe about any doctrine, if you are right then anyone who dissents is wrong - thus there is nothing more common in church history than the reality that at any given point the vast majority of Christians were WRONG about something(s) important. Still are 13/

@GovMikeHuckabee I move the previous question: What if you're wrong?
I mean, if you're right there's 3-5% of folks out there committing a sin, but you and I know 100% of us are out there committing sins. So you are crusading against this ONE sin(well two actually but you see them as one) why? 14/

@GovMikeHuckabee if you are right, some folks are committing one sin among hundreds of possible options. BUT if you are wrong, then you, a person who believes he is called to win people TO Christ have spent decades vigorously pushing people, not just gay people, AWAY from Him. Because penis? 15/

@GovMikeHuckabee Seriously man, no politics, not hatefulness here, no antagonism just for this moment, just one Christ follower to (presumably) another - is THAT a mistake you are comfortable potentially giving your account for? That never keeps you awake at night?
What if you're wrong? 16/16

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