__________________ No one on this earth can avoid affliction; and although the
afflictions which the Lord sends are not great men imagine them
beyond their strength and are crushed by them. This is because
they will not humble their souls and commit themselves to the will
of God. But the Lord Himself guides with His grace those who are
given over to God's will, and they bear all things with fortitude
for the sake of God Whom they have so loved and with Whom they are
glorified for ever. It is impossible to escape tribulation in this
world but the man who is giver over to the will of God bears
tribulation easily, seeing it but putting his trust in the Lord,
and so his tribulations pass.
...don't make us start the whole "Who created Steve?" thing. Because if G-d didn't make homosexuals, and homosexuals exist, then they are uncreated and co-eternal.
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I am the microcosmic reflection of God Herself. I get to make up my own religion. I got my permission slip signed.
You laugh because I'm different, I laugh because...well, you're not laughing now, are you?
"Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied." - Dune
__________________ It is customary to blame secular science and anti-religious philosophy for the eclipse of religion in modern society. It would be more honest to blame religion for its own defeats. Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, oppressive, insipid. When faith is replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion -- its message becomes meaningless. - Abraham Heschel
...don't make us start the whole "Who created Steve?" thing.
Yet it is very practical and sensible a position. And of course it is a fact.
Because if G-d didn't make homosexuals, and homosexuals exist, then they are uncreated and co-eternal.
Hmm, I can think of a lot of examples of different kinds of sexuality that exists in human beings, but I'd get in much trouble with the mods if I start offering up certain ones as also being created by God and therefore to be celebrated.
Also, it seems rather clear in the Bible that God created all of the peoples He subsequently judged and destroyed for doing abominations before Him. Were not these people also "created" by God?
In your logic, "anything goes" really does, as long as you make it out of the womb for a period of time.
...don't make us start the whole "Who created Steve?" thing. Because if G-d didn't make homosexuals, and homosexuals exist, then they are uncreated and co-eternal.
conspiracy theories replace the creation story? hardly....
So no God created male and female.. Homosexuals are the ones who decide to 'chose" not to be that what God intented them to be
It is pretty simple... You are a female you have female organs that function as such and you mate wtih a male. The same for males. Again if the intention was not to create two sexes we would be basically have the same sexual organs and we could mulitply regardless what sex we are... It is not algebra ...(thank God) but pure logic here...
__________________ No one on this earth can avoid affliction; and although the
afflictions which the Lord sends are not great men imagine them
beyond their strength and are crushed by them. This is because
they will not humble their souls and commit themselves to the will
of God. But the Lord Himself guides with His grace those who are
given over to God's will, and they bear all things with fortitude
for the sake of God Whom they have so loved and with Whom they are
glorified for ever. It is impossible to escape tribulation in this
world but the man who is giver over to the will of God bears
tribulation easily, seeing it but putting his trust in the Lord,
and so his tribulations pass.
conspiracy theories replace the creation story? hardly....
So no God created male and female.. Homosexuals are the ones who decide to 'choose" not to be that what God intented them to be
All I know for definite is that I didn't choose my sexual orientation, and that when listening to homosexuals describing how they first realised that they were homosexual, there doesn't seem to be any basis for assuming that they chose their sexual orientation either.
__________________ David Brider
"...God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8)
All I know for definite is that I didn't choose my sexual orientation, and that when listening to homosexuals describing how they first realised that they were homosexual, there doesn't seem to be any basis for assuming that they chose their sexual orientation either.
I'll second that. I didn't choose to be heterosexual. It would be stupid of me to assume that homosexuals choose.
conspiracy theories replace the creation story? hardly....
So no God created male and female.. Homosexuals are the ones who decide to 'chose" not to be that what God intented them to be
So, was that tongue-in-cheek or are you too saying that a homosexual is no more than a deviant heterosexual?
Homosexuals are the ones who decide to 'chose" not to be that what God intented them to be
They decide to choose? Do they choose to decide to choose, too? What about deciding to choose to decide to choose? I bet those darn homosexuals do that, too.
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Jesus says we die a little death for him every day.
~ La Petite Mort, Erin McKeown