This is a Bible that that guys from xxxchurch.com will take to porn conventions and hand out at their booth to try and spread the gospel in the sick world of the porn industry.
Click on the picture here and read the description on the back of these Bibles.
I totally understand where the xxxchurch.com guys are going with this and I greatly commend their efforts, but theologically speaking I think the note on the back of the Bible is grossly simplistic in terms of how the Bible talks about the love of God. Does God love all people the same? Yes and no. Do I love all people the same? Well yes, in a sense God calls me to that, but do I love my children with a special distinction? Of course. I think the same is true of God. God's saving love only rests on those who put their faith in him. If not, then you are loved in a John 3:16 sense, but at the same time an object of his wrath. Does Jesus love porn stars? Yes! But that is not the end of the story. Maybe the back clip just needs more clarification.
I think I have the most problem with the statement "We're all the same to Jesus". I am afraid this is a great Christian slogan that most of us have come to accept because it gets repeated over and over again in various forms. Again, I think it is important to understand that there is a grave distinction Biblically between those who are "received a spirit of sonship" (Romans 8:15) and those who are under God's wrath (Romans 1:18). This is no means for arrogance (Eph.2:8-10), but only a remembrance of God's sovereign grace and his electing love which can only humble those who embrace it.
Again, I greatly commend xxxchurch.com guys for their efforts in this tragic world of sexual perversion. The church needs much more of this kind of risk-taking passion to creatively take the gospel where it may never be found otherwise.
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