Excellent Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage in the Church

It might be interesting to discuss this book, but the rules dont allow it in this forum. There is, however, no quuestion that the Bible portrays God as changing his mind many times. Just what we make of those places would be worth talking about.

hedrick said:

It might be interesting to discuss this book, but the rules dont allow it in this forum. There is, however, no quuestion that the Bible portrays God as changing his mind many times. Just what we make of those places would be worth talking about.

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God does not change His mind about sin as He is Holy.

Yes we had the ceremonial law and civil law in OT, but homosexuality does not fall under these laws.

Homosexuality is and always will be a sin. Marriage was created by God to be between one man and one woman, to reflect God's relationship between Himself and His people. As God is the Creator of marriage, man has no say in it.

The analysis and conclusions written by Rebecca McLaughlin in the OP article are spot on. I agree with her. Richard and Christopher Hays are absolutely incorrect in saying that God has changed His mind about homosexuality.

hedrick said:

It might be interesting to discuss this book, but the rules dont allow it in this forum. There is, however, no quuestion that the Bible portrays God as changing his mind many times. Just what we make of those places would be worth talking about.

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God has not changed his mind on Homosexuality. Have we received new scripture which says otherwise?

Hays use of scripture is perverse. He doesnt see all of them but misinterprets Gods actions Eze 20:25-26. He did defile them for their sins, in order that they would be horrified.

Eco 22:29-30and he says that animals were sacrificed, to redeem themselves and so man was sacrificed to redeem himself, the first born. But other animals were sacrificed to redeem man so he could live. This is according to the article and in opposition to a couple scriptures hays misused or misinterpreted And McLaughlin didn’t catch.

If someone does what is wrong, this can exercise the person to get weaker so he or she can be more and more able to suffer emotionally and miss out on how God's love can make us creative for solving problems and relating with other people.

There is "the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience," we have in Ephesians 2:2.

So, no matter how cleverly we argue for any sin, even only agreeing with it can have us functioning in Satan's spirit of disobedience. So, agreeing with wrong things is also wrong. And it can be spreading the effects of Satan's evil spirit. And then children can be affected by this, so they likewise are weak enough to suffer deeply and be desperate to seek pleasure in order to feel something nicer . . . instead of finding out how to love.

And in less than God's love, people can give in to fearing and arguing and self-righteously criticizing others, instead of praying with hope for any and all people.

So, this is included in what is wrong with anything that is wrong . . . no matter how cleverly anyone argues otherwise > we can see how people are turning out because of what they hold to and how ones hold to their things.

Wrong people can attract problems, plus self-righteous people can be correct about what is wrong but they are not the right way about what they know.