Cleansing Stream....

Well, what can I say about the cleansing stream retreat?  Better yet...what can I say good about the retreat? lol The one thing good I got out of it was the session on purity.  That is always a good subject to address for Christians because most of the time we feel like we can't talk about those kinds of things.  We feel dirty because we deal with these things and that is how the enemy takes hold.  He makes us think we are alone in our fight and so we never address the real issues.  Addressing that issue was a good thing.

Now, to move on to what was a little off about the retreat.  Well, the one thing that really turned me off to the whole thing was when one of the speakers said that there is a generational curse on all illegitimate children that are conceived.  This curse supposedly lasts for 400 years and creates a rift when it comes to intimacy with God.  The fact that he said that made me feel a little off in the first place but he backed it with a verse in Deuteronomy.  Now anyone with biblical knowledge should know that those laws are, first of all, old testament laws that were wiped away when Jesus died and rose again.  Second, those laws were for the Jews...last time I checked...I'm not a Jew.  Honestly, if you go and look at Acts 15 it will explain all you really need to know about that.  Paul and Barnabas are basically having a debate about the  Old Testament law that the Pharisees were trying to make the gentiles follow.  The Pharisees were saying that unless you were circumcised under the law of Moses then you couldn't be saved.  Obviously that wasn't true so Paul and Barnabas explained this to them.  In verse 10 of Chapter 15 they said to the Pharisees "Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear."

I just really feel like people need to study their bible...it would prevent a lot of confusion on the obvious matters.