Please allow me to introduce myself. I am James R. (Jim) Aist, and I am a Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. My professional training and experience and peer-reviewed, scientific publications are in the area of biological research. I also have formal training in Pastoral Theology and have been a pastor at First Assembly of God Church in Ithaca, NY. Most importantly, I am a born-again Christian. In my spiritual journey, I have been United Methodist, Roman Catholic, Conservative Baptist, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Independent Pentecostal, Assemblies of God and (presently) Church of God-Cleveland. I started this website to share with you some of the results and conclusions from my independent library/internet research and personal biblical studies on matters of biblical theology and morality, but I am expanding the scope of it to include personal revelations, teachings and short stories. I’m glad you found me, and I hope you will find something interesting and useful on my website from time to time. (Click on the category links at the top-right of this page to see the Tables of Contents for my posted articles.)
Pastor Harrelson, thank you for your request. I started this website last year to share some of the results and conclusions from my independent library/internet research and personal biblical studies on matters of biblical theology and morality, but I have expanded the scope of it to include personal revelations, biblical teachings and short stories. My primary objective is to inform the Body of Christ about matters of current issues that are important to the Christian life and witness, especially homosexuality. Another of my ministries is serving as the Administrative Assistant at a local church. Finally, I am assisting my wife in caring for her 95-year-old mother, who lives with us. I trust this reply is informative. May the Lord bless you.
Would LOVE to know MORE about your ministry
Thank you, Mike, for visiting my website and leaving your comment. I suppose I could “just say its a sin and leave it at that”, but I am more interested in discovering and revealing, to whomever has “ears to hear”, the truth about homosexuality and exposing the lies, myths and hoaxes being peddled by radical activists in the homosexual movement, to merely expressing a personal opinion without backing it up with the facts and truths that I have discovered.
Let me congratulate you for nine years of living as a celebate, born-again Christian. I’m sure that is not an easy thing to do. I agree, that as a homosexual person, you have a personal, experiential perspective on homosexuality that I do not have. But, as I pointed out in several of my articles, many of the facts that I have written about are dealing with trends and averages that are characteristic of a group of people as a whole, be they homosexual or heterosexual. Your personal experiences as a homosexual person are, of course, real and valid, but they are extremely limited in scope, not necessarily representative, and they certainly do not disprove the facts that have been reported by those who have studied larger populations of homosexual people. If these truthful, factual characterizations, which you refer to as nonsense and lies, do not apply to you personally, then you have no reason to be offended personally. And let’s keep in mind that truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth. Are you willing and able to accept the facts and the truth about homosexuality even if and when they offend you? That’s not an easy thing to do either.
After reading through this nonsense you’ve written about gays I have to say its really shameful that a so called Christian would have written such lies about a group of people. You could just say its a sin and leave it that that. Instead you spread these lies. I hope for peoples sake that you get the truth in you. By the way Im a born again Christian, and Im also gay and Ive been celibate for 9 years now. In my many years I spent in the gay community I never saw most the stuff you wrote on this site, and Who do you think would know more about this?
Thank you for your comment, Laurie. I also found that piece of info helpful. It should be encouraging to dissatisfied homosexual people seeking change. That there are more ex gays than gays is not something you will ever see in the mainstream media, that’s for sure!
I took your homosexuality fact checker quiz – got most right but I didn’t know that there are more ex gays than gays. Found that piece of info helpful. Thanks!
Thanks Vince, I appreciate your encouragement. And yes, I will keep on keeping on.
I appreciate your comments on Christian Post even though the radicals get upset with the truth. Keep posting!
Thank you Prayson. We all can use encouragement from time to time. Your blog is awesome too!
Thank you for power God centered articles James. This is a powerful theological blog.
- Prayson