Richard Land of the Southern Baptist
Convention on Thursday said that God will punish gay Christians.
Land told a Washington Watch
listener that like a woman he knew whom God struck down dead for
leaving his church, God will punish gay Christians until they repent.
“If a Christian is in a homosexual
relationship or if a Christian is in an adulterous relationship for
instance, outside of marriage, a heterosexual relationship, God will
seek to convict that person and God will chastise that person and God
will judge that person,” Land
said.
“When I was in my first church, I was
pastor of a church in New Orleans when I was a seminary student, I
had a woman in the church who had become a Christian and she got
involved through a personal relationship with a man, she got involved
in Satanic worship and she went around the French Quarter saying that
she used to think that Jesus was the messiah but that now she
believed the Devil was the angel of light.”
“God's not going to let you be a
stumbling block and God's not going to let you continue in this kind
of sin,” Land said he told the woman.
“She rejected my counsel and six
weeks later at the age of around 25 she dropped dead of a cerebral
hemorrhage. I believe that God removed her because she was his child
and she was a stumbling block to others. So if this person goes on
and is perfectly happy in this homosexual relationship and nothing
happens to him, then I would have to believe that he has never had a
conversion experience. If he has had a conversion experience, the
Lord is not going to let him go, the Lord is going to continue to
convict him and to chastise him, to bring him back, as he did David.”