UPDATED 08/04/2026 WITH NEW INFO
Alvin Christian has fed up to 800 families a day from God's Store House Food Bank in Bluefield, West Virginia. This month, his freezers sat empty. And not from a supply shortage. Instead, apparently, Christian has been turning away food donations himself, after learning some of the suppliers worked with LGBTQ-affiliated groups.
It raises an old religious question wearing new clothes: does feeding the hungry come with a doctrinal test attached, or is mercy supposed to be unconditional?
What Happened at God's Store House?
Christian founded God's Store House in 2023, and it grew fast. By early this year, the pantry was serving more than 8,000 families a month across four counties in West Virginia and Virginia, growth that pushed Christian to start raising money for a larger building. "It gives me great pleasure to see a smile on somebody's face," he told a local news station in 2023, describing why he took on the work.
That momentum stalled this week. In a video he later deleted, Christian told followers his freezers were bare, and that donors had offered to restock them. He turned the food down anyway, he said, after doing his own research and finding the donors' ties to LGBTQ-affiliated organizations.
While Christian would later delete that video, it was archived by another Facebook user, Hairston Nes.
In the video, Christian explicitly cites his faith as the motivating factor behind his decision: "As a man-of-God and standing with faith in God, I refuse to receive food from anybody that has anything, is tied into [the gay rights movement]."
Another community member apparently took it upon himself to call Christian and express his feelings about the issue. A recording of that alleged call was also uploaded to Facebook.
For a pantry that had grown into a lifeline across four counties, that meant real families losing a source of groceries they had come to count on. Christian did not respond to a request for comment from Friendly Atheist, who first reported his decision, though he addressed the fallout directly the next morning in a livestream video.
(We had included a copy of this video when this piece was initially published, but it appears as though Christian has since removed the post).
In his response stream, throughout which the camera remains aimed at the floor, Christian seemed to suggest that much of the controversy could be attributed to a misunderstanding. He said that it was not his intention to refuse to accept donated food from groups affiliated with LGBTQ+ groups, and instead clarified that he was refusing to purchase food from vendors who were affiliated with LGBTQ+ groups or causes for fear that some portion of the purchase price could go toward supporting those groups.
That account is difficult to square with his own earlier statement.
He further indicated that he did not maintain a practice of refusing to provide food to individuals who entered his food bank as a result of their characteristics. This pledge that he would not refuse to provide food to particular individuals was repeated across both of the videos.
The response video has received hundreds of comments, and while there are some statements of support for Christian, many of the comments indicate that there is ongoing concern and anger over his practices. Historically, Christian has been a vocal and active user of social media, though no new posts appear to have been added to his Facebook page since July 28th.
Is This Kind of Rejection Common?
It is more common than it should be. A widely cited 2022 analysis found more than six in ten food pantries across a dozen states are run by churches or other faith-based groups, and a Williams Institute study found 14 percent of LGBTQ+ adults have avoided a faith-based pantry altogether, worried about the reception waiting for them at the door.
The USDA's own nutrition agency has noted that food insufficiency runs roughly three times higher among transgender people than the general population, meaning the group most likely to hesitate at a church food pantry's door is also among the hungriest.
But faith-based charity is not one thing. In Oklahoma City, a pantry at the Church of the Open Arms serves the neighborhood around the city's gay district, led by Laura Choate, who was pushed out of her own family's home at 11 for coming out. Her pantry makes welcome the starting point for every visitor, not a condition to be earned.
"We're very aware that some places aren't as open to everyone," said Lorrie Clevenger, a program director at the hunger-relief group WhyHunger, describing the broader landscape her organization tracks. Feeding America, the country's largest hunger-relief network, works across that same landscape without screening partners by politics or faith.
Although it is unclear, it appears from his initial video that Feeding America is the food supplier that Christian has taken issue with this week.
Christian's decision fits a pattern this blog has tracked before, institutions treating LGBTQ affiliation as disqualifying even at real cost to their own stated mission. Only 2 percent of the churches contacted during one recent cold-snap survey agreed to open their doors to homeless neighbors overnight, most citing liability fears rather than theology. A Christian radio host was fired last year for voicing support for LGBTQ+ weddings, over the objections of his own listeners.
Supporters of Christian's stance would point to Scripture's warning against being "unequally yoked," a passage some conservative Christians read as barring partnership with groups whose values conflict with their own, even indirectly. A ministry, on that reading, answers to God's standards first, and no law requires Christian to accept help from groups he disagrees with.
But conviction has a cost. Every box of food he refuses is a family that goes without, in a corner of Appalachia already stretched thin by hunger.
Where should the line sit between guarding a ministry's beliefs and feeding the people already standing in front of it? And if you ran a charity forced to choose between the two, which one would you pick?
143 comments
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Brien
A question to think on... You are drowning in the ocean, a lesbian sees you and dives into the water to save you. This particular person is a certified dive instructor and works with the local emergency response team. Now, are you going to drown or be saved?
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Rev Ned
It’s NOT the “Christian” thing to do. Hate is not what Jesus would do! Hate has no place in “Christianity”.
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Dorothy Hawkins
I don't think Jesus was picky about the people he fed - - and I doubt that he knew less about human beings' sexual identities than God does. But God also inspires studies of the way things work - science. Neurobiology found distinct differences in people's neuro-biological development of their adult sexual expressions. It isn't a choice, it's been with us from the beginning of our existence - with some cultures readily adapting, and others rigidly clinging to outdated thinking about the realities of our own biology. If God made everyone here, who are we to judge how God sees them? We're told God is love. As a Jesus fan, I cannot imagine him starving poor people because he hated ANY donors' identities!
Dorothy Hawkins
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Susan Mary Sciara
How ironic that his last name is Christian. Probably when Jesus passed out the loaves and the fishes he did not allow anyone to partake whose views he didn't agree with, right?
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Cisco
Whatever your beliefs or religion you go by pvone thing is always true. Your here to serve the people not your ego. God don't like ugly especially when your using him as a reason to not help some of his children cause of who they are and what they believe in. Food is food and it shouldn't matter who donated it or receives the food. Those in need should be your priority not your religion or ego for we are all God's children.
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George Soria
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.” — Matthew 7:1
Before we throw stones at others, let us remember that judgment belongs to God.
Our calling is not to condemn but to love, to show mercy, and to help those in need. Jesus taught us that the greatest commandments are to love God and to love our neighbor.
Those who choose to donate are putting compassion into action. Rather than questioning their motives, perhaps each of us should ask ourselves:
What am I doing to help?
The world needs fewer critics and more servants, fewer accusations and more acts of kindness.
May our words bring healing instead of division, our hands bring hope instead of harm, and our hearts reflect the love that Christ showed to us all.
“Let all that you do be done in love.” — 1 Corinthians 16:14
May this message encourage others to replace judgment with compassion and to remember that love is the clearest reflection of faith.
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Patricia Ann Gross
George,
When I used this same logic during a rant with my mentor pastor, his response was, "That sounds pretty judgemental to me." I never looked judgement the same way again. There is a difference between being judgemental and calling out injustice. We condemn every day. Otherwise everyone left to their own devices would be pure chaos. Calling out injustice and hypocracy for what they are is exactly what Jesus calls us to do. Let that quote from 1 Corinthians guide you. The way I see it, is that using a thinly veiled "religious" excuse of someone potentially using the money to promote or help something you don't believe to NOT accept help for the people Jesus explicitly calls you to help is an injustice wrapped in that thin veil of religion.
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Rev. B.D. Rees
PEOPLE....PEOPLE....PEOPLE..... All of this discussion over a taught or self taught BIGOT!! Blaming the Bible for his own hatred!! Telling Everyone that GOD taught him to hate like this!! The Author of the book leviticus in the OLD testament is simply that, the author and he gives HIS opinion NOT GODS!! Let's face it, there are a lot of preachers out there that are obsessed with the notion that the Bible was written by Angels or even God him/herself... I know that I bring Sad news to you, MAN WROTE THE BOOKS OF THE BIBLE... Inspired? Maybe... But certainly with Man's own opinions and attitudes of the day!! As scholors have opined, Leviticus warned us against "Child Preditors" NOT Gay men and women, because it was an accepted practice in those days by most of the Gentiles and the Romans and Greeks. Jesus and Father God NEVER said or made a Commandment against Gays and the Gay lifestyle!! Sorry to burst your little hateful balloon but, it is what it is..... His refusing food from those companies that support LGBTQ programs is BIGOTRY and HATE plain and simple.... Not anything to do with being a true follower of Christ.....
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Francis Edward Whitford
The Good Samaritan The Jews and the Samaritans hated each other. True morality.
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Francis Edward Whitford
The Good Samaritan
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Bridget Kielas-Fecyk
So he is yet another so-called "Christian" who claims "What would Jesus do?" and claims he's following "Jesus", but then would rather leave families to starve and would spit on a person than accept charity from those he disagrees with due to their genetics.
There is no hate like Christian "Love" it seems.
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Larry Spahr
I'm not infavor of the gay lesbian movement in a lot of ways but the needy need the help and they should have excepted the donations
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Leigh W. Barrett
Shouldn't the only question have been? " What would Jesus have done?
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Tammy S Gardner
He would have fed them
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Bridget Kielas-Fecyk
That's an easy one, he'd've not cared who the people were offering the food, as long as the hungry was fed.
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Rev. Lindsay
It all comes down to whether money is going back to gay and lesbian groups as a gratuity of any kind. If not the more the merrier so to speak as far as donations go. Most anyone feels blessed when they give to others when they feel the urge to help the less fortunate..
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Bridget Kielas-Fecyk
There is no money going to the LGBTQ+ groups. These are groups offering to help feed the hungry. But apparently the man would let a child starve to death than accept the idea of someone who works with LGBTQ+ groups also wants to help him.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Bridget,
I just had an epiphany when I read what you wrote. Perhaps the real problem is that the food supplier/donor provides enough, he would feel compelled to include them on his list of donors in his annual report/ 990 filings, and on his website, acknowledging that some of his sources also help the LGBTQIA++ community. That would destroy his perfect image of being a homophobe.
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Rev. Lindsay
In reality to a minister there's no such thing as a homophobe. I don't believe anyone could have such a phobia of someone gay but it's your excuse for gays being disliked in reality.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Rev. Lindsay,
According to Webster's dictionary, homophobia is: discrimination against, aversion to, or fear of homosexuality or gay people. So, if, to a minister there is "no such thing as a homophobe," what would you call someone who discriminates against, has an aversion to or is afraid of homosexuality or gay people? BTW, Webster does NOT give an exemption of this definition to ministers like you did.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/homophobia
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Rev. Lindsay
I'm sure you have no way of determining that.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Rev. Lindsay,
The empty shelves in his food pantry speak for him.
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Donald G Magel
The American christian right has certainly moved away from Jesus Christ's woke teachings. We are all made in God's image, even those that are different from you.
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Leslie A. Hulberg Née Tomasura
How can hate and discrimination ever be a good thing? It can’t. I believe if this preacher truly wanted to help the needy, it wouldn’t matter where donations came from, so long as they come. I bet he would take donations from a biker gang. I bet he would take donations from crooked politicians or corporations without ever blinking an eye as to how they came to be in possession of these items, or who got hurt in the process. Discrimination against anyone and hatred towards any group is never justified.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
Wow. So he's good with allowing harm to come to people who rely on his established help just to indulge hatred. That's pretty monstrous.
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Merle A Clark
Good job . Everyone speaking out against the preacher using scripture while ignoring Leviticus 18 : 22
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Ari Joseph Bertine
I have recently seen a complete rejection of Leviticus 19:34 from a lot of regulars here as well.
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Brien
You do realize that not all of us believe in your mythical man made construct, right? The only thing I see is a hateful bigot wrapping himself in the mythical "my god said so" to justify a position of hate. Seems to me to be a mental health issue. Perhaps he should seek help. Peace ✌️
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Patricia Ann Gross
Ari,
That's a good one.
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Martin S
Merle A Clark, you are pulling things from The Old Testament...the same books where you tend to ignore the things you find inconvenient. Would that rejection of Leviticus somehow supersede James: 2" My brothers and sisters, believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favoritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, “Here’s a good seat for you,” but say to the poor man, “You stand there” or “Sit on the floor by my feet,” 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?"
Oh, I know how the new covenants change the restrictions in The Bible...isn't it convenient that those come along just when needed to justify what Christians want to do? I understand there is a new one coming where Christians won't have to follow "Woke Jesus" anymore!
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Michael Hunt
What does Leviticus 18 : 22 have to do at all with feeding the hungry. He's denying to take or buy food from Feeding America because they also provide food to the LGBTQ+ community. Nothing in Leviticus says anything about not accepting food from someone who, by your belief, is a sinner.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
But there are explicit rules in Leviticus about what exactly to do when there are poor folks in your community. Seems that quite a few people who claim to be acting on faith feel free to ignore everything else in Leviticus besides that one verse that conveniently coincides with their own personal dislike.
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Charlie K.
Jesus did not exclude anyone. And further more, a person should remember, judge not or you shall likewise be judged..
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Julie Armstrong
Male Female Mental illness 2 choices
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Jackie L Lauth
What if the tables were turned? I honestly have never met an LGBTQ who would not offer food to someone who is hungry.
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Rebecca G Felix
It is his Foodbank. Shouldn't he be able to do whatever he wants to do with it? It's unfortunate for those in need but we all have a right to fulfill our vision in any way we choose.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
I doubt anyone is denying his right to do that. I'm sure not. I just think he's a bad person for exercising that right the way he chose to.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Yes, he can do whatever he wants, but don't go out and say you'll help anybody and yet not accept donated or discounted food from any organization that helps certain groups of people, in this case people who are among the LGBTQIA++ community.
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Wilberta M. Berry
A failure of the mission because their predudice has zero to do with Christianity.
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Joseph Grieco
As an aftermath, donations also dried up from other sources. I've seen similar at other food banks. The director of one of the larger ones in our state effectively drove off most of her staff, and much of their donations based on the way she treated people. Another one, closer to home, is significantly more welcoming to staff, donors, and folks in need. To use a more polite variation - Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
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Rev. Mojo
He's using his "faith" as a shield for discrimination. For SHAME!!!!!
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Roy S. Thorpe
Manna from Heaven comes from ALL sources without question! Don't tarnish any gifts! Take what is given and be grateful and thank God it's provided!
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Steven Ferrell
It seems the alphabet bunch feel they have to try and force their agenda on everyone.
Are there no other food banks they could donate to that would not get them headlines?-
Michael Hunt
This has nothing to do with an LGBTQ+ group demanding this guy take their food. This food bank is empty because he won't go and get the food he needs to stock his shelves just because the group providing the food also provides food to the LGBTQ+ community. There's no agenda being pushed here at all.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
Where in the world did you get "forcing agenda" from attempting to donate food to the hungry? It's not like some "soap, soup and salvation" deal where they mandate their charity recipients must watch gay porn in order to qualify for assistance.
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Sally Jeanne Altobello
BIG failure of a mission! This is no "pastor;" he's a disgrace to the profession. What happened to God and Jesus accepting ALL people? God's perfect, right? Jesus is perfect, right? Then all that have been made are perfect--different is fine (makes our world more interesting) but if this bigot were to get to know people, he might find many more similarities than differences. AND he may even find some really amazing people. Shame on him!
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Therese M. Boehlert
Shame on them.I doubt Jesus would do the same.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
The Parable of the Two Debtors directly addresses that attitude. Jesus wasn't having it.
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Typet mcTypersone
There's no hate like christian love.
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Henry Buehler
to be charitable to accept charity or it is averts and against good in name of God. It is difficult but it is not impossible to have a Rabbi come eat dinner at your house.
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Chad Kroeger
I don't see why people are so upset about this. I run a furniture donation service and I've had to turn down a lot of pieces after I found out they were constructed using bi-metal blades. Surely Jesus would want me to take a stand for what's right, no matter how small it may seem in the moment.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Chad,
Surely, you jest.
But in case you aren't, accepting perfectly edible food from an organization that believes differently than you do is a different than accepting poorly constructed and potentially dangerous furniture that may contain toxic materials (lead, for example). Where does it say, "thou shalt not construct furniture with metal alloys?" If you ask me, you're picking nits. I understand statutes that don't allow use of anything containing lead, or anything toxic or radioactive, but this is one I've never heard before.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
I think Chad was satirizing the jerk's position by riffing on the prefix "bi". One of those cases where we really ought to have a sarcasm font...
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Patricia Ann Gross
Ari,
I think you're right, that's why I opened with "surely, you jest."
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Therese M. Boehlert
Hardly comparable to taking food donations.
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Dr. Zerpersande, NSC
I don’t suffer from that confusion. That man’s deed qualify him as a wickdeed. I fully and completely disregard anything having to do with “god’s will” as I find no reason whatsoever for the existence of said Bronze Age deity. But the guy IS a wickdeed.
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Robert Gagnon
To the best of my knowledge no one on this site was there when Jesus sourced his food contributors. In fact since JC was a rabbi it’s doubtful he served pork. Yet not all of the starving aren’t that observant when it comes to food. Who cares where support comes from if it keeps a child from starvation? Not knowing where your next meal comes from is no joke or something to scoff at. Only those with plenty can act with disdain towards charity.
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ServantOfJudgement
Would it be wrong for him to accept food from NAMBLA or any other similar organization?
What about accepting food from the Taliban?
Would we complain if he declined food from the KKK or would we complain if he accepted food from the KKK?
My Christian friends, The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord. God doesn't want anything from a source he considers wicked and he's not afraid to say it again and again.
Let this man continue his Good work according to his God guided conscience. He is after all being biblical. Let Satan and his children slander this man without your help.
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Michael Hunt
NAMBLA preys on children. The Taliban are an extremist terrorist group. The KKK is a violent, White nationalist organization. LGBTQ+ groups help a marginalized population. What an incredible false equivalence. Not only that, he's refusing to buy food from Feeding America simply because they support LGBTQ+ rights. They're not an organization that only helps LGBTQ+ people, they help everyone in this country.
As far as I can find, there isn't anything in the Bible about accepting charity from sinners or purchasing items from sinners. This man could be feeding the needy as the Bible tells him to do but his disdain for the LGBTQ+ community has him refusing to get food from organizations that simply support gay rights. Would you say Feeding America is a wicked organization?
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Catherine Marie Romach
Mark 2:15 Now it happened, as He was dining in Levi’s house, that many tax collectors and sinners also sat together with Jesus and His disciples; for there were many, and they followed Him.
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Donald G Magel
Odds are that some of the Apostles and many of the disciples of Jesus Christ were gay and most of them were as woke as Jesus himself. Not to worry though NONE were Trans, thank god.
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Lori-Ann Neeb
Mr. Judgment, it must be nice to be so special that God might speak to you more than anyone else and gives you the right to be his PR man here on Earth. Lol Don't get me started on the fact that your Bible is a manmade publication put out by a corrupt church with its own personal agendas involving the control and manipulation of the populations. They picked and chose what to include, rejected what they didn't like before editing what they did include even more. Read it all you want but do so with an open and inquisitive mind. Then read whatever else you can find on other faiths, etc. So as a rule I dismiss any response or theory that starts with just because or because the Bible says as it's only qualifying factor. What else do you have? I am listening.
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ServantOfJudgement
Very kindly all, I was talking to the Christian reader that they wouldn't be disparaging towards the man. He has promised to feed anyone if he has food with no evidence to the contrary. He's being literal with God's word which we(Christians) all should aspire to learn and understand. We can easily find biblical standards that support Alvin's actions. If ya tag God on something it better be by the book whatever it is.
For the rest, you're not expected to follow one single drop of ink from the Bible. You don't have to believe it or buy anything from it. Whatever you think about the Bible, you're right. If you read it and think it's fake and folly, nobody cares.
The place is called God's Store House. Not Alvin Christian's Store House. It's definitely not the UCL storehouse and none of us put any effort towards building or maintaining it. Alvin did and does as he feeds any hungered person on his doorstep. Not good enough? Then you go do better.
Alvin believes the Bible is a direct integrated message from the creator of the cosmos to him personally and passionately. The problem here isn't Alvin, it's the Bible.
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Elizabeth Grant Brown
If I am reading your response correctly, I'm to understand there is a "literal" quote of "God's word" against certain groups / types (?) people. Please provide the "literal" quote from Jesus. Not Paul or anyone else, Jesus. After all he is why you call yourselves "Christian". Please?
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ServantOfJudgement
Elizabeth,
It's widely understood that if an apostle said it, God said it. Anything from any prophet or apostle is from God=jesus.
Ya don't have to believe it but ya can't say the bible doesn't say it.
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Donald G Magel
This post is far out as we used to say. Trump is the chosen one of the christian right! As their chosen one he is a prophet so what he says is straight from God?
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Lori-Ann Neeb
Judgment, it doesn't matter what the Bible says since it is a manmade publication. And whether or not anyone agrees with that or disagrees is their choice. I would never take any ones Bible from them. Only to read or study all sources from all faiths. Read with an open and inquisitive mind. That being said, the Bible is a book. It makes no interpretation or actions itself as just an object. So it is that man's thoughts and actions that is the subject of the thread. .
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Patricia Ann Gross
SOJ,
He can't keep up his good work, because he refuses to accept help from those that help LGBTQIA++ people.
I doubt that NAMBLA, Taliban, or KKK make it a habit of donating to any worthy cause that would help groups that they despise (which this food bank alegedly does), so his refusal makes him no better than those organizations.
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Reverend Paula Copp
I’m sure Jesus is very proud of this “pastor”… and all his ilk.🙄
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Donald G Magel
Satan awaits The "food bank"pastor''s arrival.
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Barbara Harris
To place your standards of bigotry over caring and feeding those in need is deplorable.
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Nicholas J Page
Only feeds straight families but won't take donated food from the gay community Hypocrite you don't deserve to be a pastor.
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ServantOfJudgement
No, this guy feeds anyone, just won't take donations from what the bible says is a wicked source. Jesus was the source of the food he gave. Jesus surely fed the wicked and not only food. He fed us wicked spiritual food and gave us a direct message on paper we can all read.
You'll find that it offends God to receive things from a wicked source. He won't use it.
Check it out for yourself.
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Ari Joseph Bertine
Luke 7:36-50. Jesus don't play that.
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David Pfuhler
It is important to note that the Old Testament is intended to be held as the example of the faith Jesus grew up in and then strove to change in his teachings. Christianity was a reformation of the Jewish tradition that Jesus was raised in, while you cite Proverbs I would ask thst you reflect upon the Eight Beatitudes.
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Colleen McAllister
This man is going against everything Jesus taught. Jesus never asked for people's beliefs when He was feeding the 5,000. He fed everyone. And we should too.
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James Richard Munro
When Jesus fed 5,000 people, none of the food came from the alphabet people.
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John Robert Peters
Actually we don't know that since neither Jesus nor the Apostles asked who donated the loaves and fish. Neither did they ask the orientation of the recipients.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Ultimately, ALL food comes from God, even when they are distributed by those you call "alphabet people." It is highly possible that some of Jesus' helpers who carried the baskets and helped clean up were "alphabet people." That was the tradition of the time. Every able bodied person pitched in to help. Somewhere along the line, society has lost that concept.
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Daniel Mark Rosenfield
You stated your personal belief, but that does not make it fact.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Daniel,
I was only responding to the story of the 5,000 (that's part of my personal belief), and nobody in that story (recipient or helper) is singled out as being "pure" or "worthy," only as human and hungry/helper. It also doesn't say where the loaves and fishes came from, only that there were a few baskets, that fed the whole crowd, with enough crumbs and pieces of fish left over to fill several of them.
If you don't want to believe it, then I respect that as well. Your disbelief does not make it a fact or a fiction either.
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Sally Jeanne Altobello
Your comment is rude and disrespectful.
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Scott Smith
No one spoke as to the source of the food shared. No one demanded ID, registration, an exam to test one's beliefs, a declaration of one's preferred proclivities, or anything else. Or, perhaps the early church found it unimportant and removed it from the books now accepted as part of the bible.
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Brien
I would laugh at this but it is such a fine example of hate masked as religion. One construct hiding behind another construct. Peace ✌️
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ServantOfJudgement
Like you'll take a free lunch with Trumps face on the cover and feed it to your loved ones...
I dig the deal. Funny stuff
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Patricia Ann Gross
SOJ,
Yea, Really funny stuff. Even for you.
If you were hungry and hadn't eaten in a week, and were offered a food basket with Joe Biden's face on it, or a label stating it was donated by the DNC or some left-leaning organization, would you refuse to take it or eat it? Hunger is not something to politicize. If you're saying that ONLY hungry MAGAts would take and eat a box of food donated by a Republican source, your mind has truly twisted. Hunger is hunger, and the only way to fix it is to eat. Regardless of the source. We're not talking about people who are simply looking for a free meal, because most of us will accept one even when we aren't hungry. We're talking about hungry people with children to feed, so I suggest you have that high horse get on its knees.
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ServantOfJudgement
Patricia, I would thank God for the food Biden stole the money from the people to pay for the free food the people he took the money from needed to stay alive.
I'm not talking about a starving man refusing food from trump. I'm talking about someone not starving running a food pantry like Alvin Christian.
There are people here and everywhere that would not accept food from trump to feed the hungry unless they themselves were starving.
It's those who judge in hypocrisy I'm speaking of.
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Patricia Ann Gross
SOJ,,
You make even less sense here than with your first comment, unless you're saying that it is up to the starving people to feed themselves. What a food pantry does, is take or buy food (through donations) from people who have more than enough to distribute to those who are hungry. It seems like you have never heard of one or been to one. You might try volunteering. It can be a life-changing experience.
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ServantOfJudgement
Patricia, my apologies. Sometimes my sarcasm is so deep even I have a hard time sorting it out.
Was a joke about government taxing us so much that we can't afford our own food so we need government assistance. Quasi joke I suppose cause it happens.
You're always polite and deserve better than sarcasm from me.
I give to homeless people I encounter on the street even if I think they're scamming. Once I offered my carryout food I just picked up to a begger and he got furious. Screamed 'i don't want your effing food!'. He was chasing meth. I've gone hungry myself and it's nothing to joke about. It's terrible.
Still, this man is running his pantry his way according to his belief. He's feeding people. That good right? Better than I'm doing.
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Patricia Ann Gross
SOJ,
Read it again. No he's not feeding anyone, at least not as many as before because his shelves are empty.
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Daniel Mark Rosenfield
SOJ:
Your initial sentence is so ridiculous that many people, myself included, cannot really take anything else you say seriously.
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ServantOfJudgement
Daniel, we've got some tender snowflakes moderating and reading.
My words must burn the soft melty eyes.
I'll reword my deleted response to you so nobody gets all crybaby. Prolly still will though.
The Trump Derangement Syndrome is so bad that 90 percent of the leftist hive drones in the USA would refuse food from president trump if they were running a food bank. Present company Not excluded.
Even kamala haris(the prez candidate you were ordered to vote for) said she'd refuse the COVID shot because it was from trump. Once it became the senile presidents Jab, she rolled her sleeves up and joined in trying to make all of us free thinkers take the jab.
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Michael Hunt
"The Trump Derangement Syndrome is so bad that 90 percent of the leftist hive drones in the USA would refuse food from president trump if they were running a food bank."
Completely fabricated statistic with zero basis in reality. Provide examples of leftists refusing food or any aid from the Trump administration if I'm wrong.
"Even kamala haris(the prez candidate you were ordered to vote for) said she'd refuse the COVID shot because it was from trump."
That is not what she said. She said she wouldn't feel safe taking the vaccine if the one person saying it was safe was Trump. She wasn't going to simply take his word for it unless the scientists developing and testing the vaccine also said it was safe.
" 'I would not trust Donald Trump, and it would have to be a credible source of information that talks about the efficacy and the reliability of whatever he's talking about,' Harris said in an interview with CNN on Saturday. 'I will not take his word for it.' "
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-wont-say-if-she-would-take-a-covid-19-vaccine-approved-before-election/
That's a far cry from refusing the vaccine from Trump but taking it from Biden to control the masses.
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Thom
This is no place for politics. Church and state are separated. This is why all religious content should be removed from our money, documents and, coin. This country was based on religious freedom. Just because they were puritans doesn't men it must be the only way. This world is much better off if the Radical Christians kept to themselves and got out of the government. This is where all this is stemming from. The governing of a country has no room for religion in it. Do that on your own time. They are all just teacher, prophets, sensais, sufis, Buddhist, etc. That is all just knowledge to practice for ones own personal betterment. Not rule a country with.
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John Robert Peters
People like this pastor have erased the line between church and state. You may have missed all the news about TX and the mandatory teaching of the Bible and posting of the 10 Commandments in all classrooms or the attempts to make the US a Christian Nation.
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ServantOfJudgement
Thom,
Sorry friend, this message board isn't a government run outfit. Sometimes they post political articles and sometimes they post religious articles. Sometimes they bost a religious political article.
We've got the liberty to say what we will as you've done.
You go ahead and stop talking about the politics you told me to stop talking about.
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Brien
If that was meant as an insult, it was feeble at best. If it was a joke, it wasn't funny, Peace
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James Richard Munro
Theres an old saying. Your judged by the company you keep. I can see why the food bank doesn't want to be associate with the alphabet people. The people that donate food to the food banks don't do it for no reason. The food chain uses it as a tax right off. I would never deal with a company that support sexual deviants and perverts. It's always follow the money trail I'm sad to say. Pastor Jim
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Lori-Ann Neeb
Weaponized Christianity at work. There is no hate like conservative weaponized Christianity love... And I suppose your conservatives never took advantage of a tax write off either...
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Michael Hunt
"I don't want to associate with the LGBTQ+ community so I'm not going accept food donations to help people in my community." What a selfish thing for someone to do. All because this guy doesn't believe the LGBTQ+ community should have equal rights, he's going to spite the needy in his community. Jesus weeps.
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James Richard Munro
I see your starting to get the picture. There are no alphabet people in my community. Thankyou God.
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Michael Hunt
No wonder you've turned the LGBTQ+ community into an "other" for you to direct your hate and rage towards. It's easy to dehumanize a group of people when you've never existed around them.
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James Richard Munro
I never used the word, hate Nore did I say rage. There you go again. You think either everyone loves you or hats you. Pore baby. I don't hate you. I hate the fact that you have made bad choices and are angry at people who won't play along with your perversion and fantasy. OH, Look. Now I'm a girl.
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Michael Hunt
You didn't have to say "hate" or "rage" for it to be clear you harbor hate and rage and need to direct it towards some other group that you have no connection to, dehumanizing them in the process. Your constant attacks of the LGBTQ+ community stems from a place of hate.
I do not "think either everyone loves you or hats you," but it is clear you hate the fact that some people are homosexual or transgender. You actively reject the scientific studies that confirm the biological connections to one's sexual preferences and gender identity. These aren't things you have control over, it's just how your body is. Because they were born that way, you call them perverts living in a fantasy when the reality is it's you that is being fantastical. People who are transgender don't just decide their gender preference one random day, they feel that way for their entire lives.
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Sally Jeanne Altobello
I'm guessing, "Pastor" Jim, that you know no one who is different from you. You might want to take a challenge and start a conversation with someone. Ask things like, "When did you know... How was it for you growing up? What prompted you to... What kinds of things do you like? Music? Games? How are we alike? What's your favorite food? Hobby?" I hope you get the picture. You'll find some really great people if you open your mind and heart. How cool for someone to live their authentic self instead of feeling a need to hide. I wonder how many LESS suicides there would be.... Your comment about 'alphabet' people is degrading, rude, and offensive.
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Elizabeth Jane Erbe Wilcox
I’m sure you have read the DSM-5.
And no doubt you are aware that it’s the white, male, christian nationalists who are the PERVERTS. You have nothing to fear from the LGBTQ+ community. It’s sad they have to fear you.
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James Richard Munro
Heard last week that the state of Minnesota public school system is giving age three to age ten,
trans dolls. They have interchangeable sex parts. Paid for with tax dollars. With out the parent's knowledge or permission. Now, who`s the perverts? Pastor Jim-
Michael Hunt
This is a distortion of the facts. The Minnesota public school system are not giving these out to children using tax payer dollars.
While the dolls were created by researchers at the University of Minnesota, they are for use by clinicians, not schools.
https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/07/29/moorhead-schools-say-mygender-dolls-will-not-be-used-district/
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Brien
Please post a link to what you "heard". I would be interested in reading the proof. Thank you
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Sir Lionheart
Here’s what I found, Brien. The story from James appears to be unfounded.
“A research team at the University of Minnesota Medical School developed educational paper dolls called MyGender Dolls. These dolls have interchangeable body parts, clothing, and accessories and were created as part of research into how children understand gender. The intended users include therapists, counselors, and other professionals working with children.
The dolls were designed with children as young as 4 years old in mind for therapeutic or educational settings, although reports differ on the exact intended age range.”
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Brien
Thank you Sir Lionheart. I had a feeling the facts were distorted by fear and bias. Also thank you to Michael for posting the facts of the matter. I would remind all the fearful, all the misinformed, and all of the hurtful zealots that if you profess your fear and hate, please include your FACTS, not your mythical beliefs. Everyone has different beliefs, which is why facts are so important. Peace ✌️
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James Richard Munro
It was a news broadcast on a local TV station in San Antonio Texas. Don't remember what channel. I was really surprised because SA is mainly a democratic population and has more than its share of alphabet people.
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Daniel Mark Rosenfield
There is a terrific non-partisan website called Snopes (snopes.com) that fact-checks stories/claims like yours. Perhaps you will try using it before posting contentious content of questionable origin.
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Patricia Ann Gross
Pastor Jim,
I take it you are NOT a pastor of a church, or if you are and make it a policy NOT to accept donations or tithes from a parishioner that uses it as a tax write-off, then your church is on the high road to bankruptcy. My suspicions are that at least 90 percent of people who tithe, will deduct it from their income taxes. Would you allow an LGBTQIA++ person into your church? How would you know? Many of them are still in the closet because of the attitudes you display. I thank God every day that the churches I am affiliated with are all open and affirming to the LGBTQIA++ community, and none of their members in that category are sexual deviants. In fact most of them are married or in healthy and committed relationships. Some of them are even the pastors.
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Najah P Tamargo
Najah Tamargo-USA
I find it VERY HYPOCRITICAL for alleged "Christians" to decide where free food comes from, or who gets it. That, to me, is a straight up SIN....and they should not call themselves CHRISTIANS!!!
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ServantOfJudgement
Find in the Bible where Jesus commands us to take donations and sacrifices from wicked sources.
I'll go grab a beer while you punch in the request to ChatGPT....
You won't like what you find
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Elizabeth Jane Erbe Wilcox
Did Jesus command you to grab a beer?
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ServantOfJudgement
Nope, just me baby. You bring up an interesting comparison Elizabeth.
Imagine a nation of Christian churches embracing and encouraging drunkenness in the church and behind the pulpit. A drunken priest praising drunken Christians telling them to be proud and loud for their drunkenness telling them it's good. Anyone who says it's sinful to be a drunkard is called a hate monger and bigot yelling, No Love Like Christian Hate.
Such is the reality for the forbidden lgbtqia++ lifestyle. Christians are expected to praise that which their God has condemned.
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Donald G Magel
He was out of Jesus made wine.
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Scott Smith
Master Jesus makes no comment regarding the source of necessities donated to those in need. Why do these people?
I guess they think they know better than Master Jesus...
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David Pfuhler
Find in the bible where Jesus tells you to hate your neighbor and to reject others for their generosity.
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ServantOfJudgement
David, read Genesis, you'll find what what you're looking for there.
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Jessica North-O'Connell
I think Genesis was a little before the time of Jesus...Old Testament vs New Testament...
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ServantOfJudgement
Jessica. Jesus is the creator of the cosmos and exists before during and after timespace.
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Dr. Zerpersande, NSC
The guy is the ultimate wickdeed. This is why I feel that religion is not only flat out stupid, but detrimental to mankind. LGBT+ individuals do nothing to harm others, but this guy?
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Lori-Ann Neeb
Do not confuse this man's thoughts and deeds with God's will. God has nothing to do with these acts.
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Bishop William Dusenberry, DD
Because “God’s will” is synonymous with “Nature’s will” (the only provable God is Nature) and the only clearly identifiable will of Nature is evolution (and evolution explains how Nature is constantly in a state of flux) — “survival of the fittest” should be classified as a type of thermodynamics. As humans evolved — they began to interfere with Nature, thereby modifying what Nature gave us, and sometimes began feeding those unable to do so for themselves. The Golden Rule is a modification of Nature — and is the most widely used example why in many instances, “Mother (or, father) Nature needs a helping hand.” Rolling Stones, 1972
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Lori-Ann Neeb
Thank you. An interesting reply. I think I can call it semantics and equate "nature's will" to What i think of as spirituality. I call spirituality the innate sense of right and wrong that is in the heart of the person. Whatever faith a person may or may not claim has nothing with spirituality comming from the heart. That's why even as I have negative views of weaponized Christianity, I do not disrespect their right to their views. I just disagree and have no problem living with that. I also know there are many spiritual "good Christians out there. But you lose me a little bit with the concept of evolution being a part of it. And I do not criticize (lol) I am just not sure what you mean. Please will welcome to clarify your perspective if you choose or not. Either way I hope you had a good weekend and thanks for the reply.
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David W. Dube
Feed the hungry. It's what Jesus did. For he who has not sinned, let him cast the first stone. All fall short of the Glory of God.
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ServantOfJudgement
This guy is feeding the hungry like Jesus did. Jesus did not feed people using wicked sources. The source of the food jesus fed with was Good.
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Michael Hunt
Actually, he's currently not feeding the hungry because he won't accept food from groups that also work with LGBTQ+ groups. His shelves are empty despite organizations trying to help fill them.
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Michael Hunt
I would then inquire whether his health insurance provides coverage for abortion, highlighting the chosen moral stance.
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Scott Smith
How do you know the source of the food Master Jesus shared among others? What was the source?
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ServantOfJudgement
Scott, according to the Bible, jesus is God and he directly created the food he gave.
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Donald G Magel
How many tons of fishes did he create? just wondering.
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ServantOfJudgement
Don, do you really want to know?
Because jesus created all life, your tiny little question can't be answered with your tiny little calculator no matter how quickly your tiny little fingers punch its tiny little buttons.
Continue in wonder don.
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Lori-Ann Neeb
Tell the truth and admit that you do not know the answer so follow in uncle Donnie's playbook by trying to deflect back on the person who asked.
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ServantOfJudgement
You are overlooking John 4, where Jesus chooses to spend time with the Samaritans.
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Thom
There should be not necessary requirements but to be in need. We are all human. We all live on this planet together. I am sure that this type of racism is currently rampant in our country. It is unfortunate that a limited number of few Christian Nationalist are on the streets killing people with guns. Now we have to revert also to starvation of human beings. Is there anyone else this individual is discriminating against? Christianity is not the ultimate religion. The sooner these radical racists learn this the soon our world will be a much more accepting planet. Racism and natural selection based on their morals and standards may just not get them to the place their expecting to be. I on the other hand am looking forward to being part of the next dimension. My mother has let me know she is ok since crossing over. I know I will be joining all who have already crossed over to the collective consciousness.
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The Right Reverend D. Batch
The Christian Food Bank by my home would not take food from the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) because it was labeled from the LDS Church. I thought this to be very short sighted.
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Dr. Zerpersande, NSC
That was not ‘short sighted’ but simply stupid bordering on evil. Those actions resulted in less food for those that needed it, therefore actively harmful.
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Donald G Magel
More of that "My god is better than your god" crap.
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Just another of the fake Christians who follow hate and bigotry instead of the teachings they claim.
These are becoming very prevalent, and every day, they move away from everything The Bible teaches in advancement of their own hate.
...and then they cry about their followers moving away from the Church.