Alright, PC_F. I see that you chose not to respond to my post re repentence but continuing to 'live in sin' in the case of divorcees/remarrieds. So, I ask you up front even though this thread is not about homosexuality.
Every thread with you guys is about homosexuality. You do realize who you're debating don't you? Don't even try to pull wool here pal.
How would a repentent homosexual who continues to cohabit with his/her partner be any different to a heterosexual doing the very same thing?
Are they encouraging others to sin? Jesus makes this threateningly clear that a person is going to sin, BUT they had better not set up others to sin. Although I very much applaud your conservative stance on this issue, and encourage it never violated . . . we just don't see adulterers in the Christian world promoting it to others. Every divorced person and adulterous person, I have ever met in the Church goes out of there way to tell others how wrong it is BECAUSE of reality of scripture. That is to say, the truth.
Why is it that THIS topic is not an issue but homosexual relationships IS an issue?
Who says it's not an issue? It is yet one more example of immorality put into law by our culture of licentiousness. What you are trying to do is extremely childish and yet very wrong. You are encouraging people to sin by claiming the school-yard logic of two wrongs making a right. If a person says that that have repented of homosexuality, then that must be believed until, or unless, you have actual proof that this person is bearing fruit of lies. Then there is a way for Christians to handle that too. (The pagan and tax collector deal.)
I'm waiting with bated breath.
Bated is the word.
Is there an adultery pride parade? Even if we use Mardi Gras, a pagan festival, we see that it leads up to repentance doesn't it?
We see one adulterer at the feet of Christ awaiting her death BY a completely righteous judgment. Jesus went against "the law" His own law, and did not condemn this one adulterer. We don't even see her repenting. We also have the Samaritan woman at the well, who was an immoral tramp shacking up with one guy after another.
Or, maybe these woman were taking care of their children as best they could with the situations they had to deal with??????
Only sinners are in need of Jesus. Perfect people need not apply. You know any?
And in reading the histories of Jesus's grandmom's I wouldn't be so hasty to be rude or mean to shadey women. Jesus has a mean side to Him that is very not nice.
Is there "marriage" presented any other way
ANYWHERE in scripture that is same-gendered? In scripture, we see divorce handled, adultery handled, whorish behaviors handled, and yet we still see homosexuality handled and disapproved of, from beginning to end.
Why is this?
And KCKID, one of the Apostles asked Jesus how many times we are to forgive someone. 490 times right? Or was Jesus using some idiomatic phrase of His culture to mean
forever or every time? That seems in context to scriptural truth.
If you know of any people engaging in same-gender sex acts, or that encouraging the behaviors, that are Christian, and that repent of it, you let them know they are forgiven. Oh, and adultery and divorce too.
Per Jesus.
And then His disciples, and then the rest of us.
Etc., etc., etc., et al.
