bushidomartialarts
Senior Master
this comes out of carol's homosexuality thread. i made some statements and mr. nhau had some good questions, but rather than hijack that conversation with a tangent, i figured we could open that discussion here.
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i support homosexuality. i believe in god. and frankly, there's very little i consider good and right and just that i can't find a bible verse to say is a sin.
on the other hand, there's very little i consider good and right and just that i can't find a bible verse to support.
Could you explain this? perhaps your verbage is making it confusing...
jesus got a bad rap. most of what he had to say boiled down to "listen, people. those rules and laws were just a fancy way of saying two things.
1. there's a god. remember and respect him.
2. be nice to each other, fer cryin out loud.
if you get those right, the letter of the law matters very little, if at all"
Sort of...
then saul/paul wrote those atrocious epistles which were often all about using rule one as an excuse to break rule two, and to put the focus right back on the letter of the law rather than the spirit.
jesus christ would be appalled that people hate anybody (not just the homosexuals and the muslims that are in the current vogue) on his account.
First, the epistles were not atrocious. Second, he did not write all of them. Third, its not about hating people. Even Jesus told people to stop sinning, often after he healed them. Would you call that hating sinners? I'd call that loving.
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i support homosexuality. i believe in god. and frankly, there's very little i consider good and right and just that i can't find a bible verse to say is a sin.
on the other hand, there's very little i consider good and right and just that i can't find a bible verse to support.
Could you explain this? perhaps your verbage is making it confusing...
jesus got a bad rap. most of what he had to say boiled down to "listen, people. those rules and laws were just a fancy way of saying two things.
1. there's a god. remember and respect him.
2. be nice to each other, fer cryin out loud.
if you get those right, the letter of the law matters very little, if at all"
Sort of...
then saul/paul wrote those atrocious epistles which were often all about using rule one as an excuse to break rule two, and to put the focus right back on the letter of the law rather than the spirit.
jesus christ would be appalled that people hate anybody (not just the homosexuals and the muslims that are in the current vogue) on his account.
First, the epistles were not atrocious. Second, he did not write all of them. Third, its not about hating people. Even Jesus told people to stop sinning, often after he healed them. Would you call that hating sinners? I'd call that loving.