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Exactly. God created them male and female. Two kinds of people did
He create. One He made after His own image from the dust of the ground
and the other He created using a rib of the first, as a perfect match for him.
He did not create 5-6 kinds of people.
This is a Christian Forum, not a Fundamentalist Forum. We Christians who believe God honors his LGBT Children and their love have equal access to those of you mired in archaic prejudices.
While your point about social intercourse and ministry has validity, I do not acknowledge any authority by you whatsoever and urge others to do the same.
Can you tell why your last word there is out of place?
God created an infinite variety of humans in all manners.
It appears you are confusing gender and sexual orientation.
How do you explain interxes persons? do you view God as incompetent?
Christian honor Jesus Christ. Christian hide the Word of God in their hearts, that they might
not sin against Him. Actually, in response to whom you declare God honors,
it is written that God honors those who honor Him. God draws near to those
who draw near to Him. He resists the proud and gives grace to the humble.
God exists outside of time, therefore "archaic" does not apply to Him. His commands, His
will and His ways and His judgments are not outdated nor can they ever be.
I did not ask you to honor me, pay homage to me, or to answer to me as your authority.
God and His Word is the authority of those who claim to belong to Him. All men regardless
of whose name they come in are subjected, tested and tried by the Word of God.
Any who come preaching another gospel other than the one which Paul preached is
be rejected.
Oh are we nitpicking on whether I used moot or mute? lolActually I shouldn't laugh
as that is kind of sad. But I will respectfully answer you. Personally I think it is a matter
of preference. I prefer mute over moot.
Please reveal your source of Scripture for that declaration.
It would be more accurate to say disoriented rather than oriented, as gender
The Bible refers to intersex persons as Eunuchs. Which there is an extremely small percentage of.
As well there are also perfectly formed Eunuchs whom God has given a gift of asexuality to and
all types of natural Eunuchs (not made that way by man for service to the Queen for instance)
are called to service unto God, which includes NO SEX with either sex, but a life of service unto God.
[/COLOR]45966607]No, no. Jesus said NOTHING about the issues of homosexuality (as in sexual orientation) that are being discussed on this forum. Fornication would certainly apply to 'gays' as well as 'straights' but 'homosexuality per se' didn't rate a mention from Jesus. Actually, the act of fornication that Jesus spoke of was aimed at heterosexuals anyway. Check out the context. We might (rightly) apply the same lesson of restraint to homosexuals but Jesus certainly did not refer to them by name. Why not, I wonder?
Christians worship Christ, not the Bible.
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All of scripture is the word of God, not just what Jesus said.
People like you seem to like to say "well, if Jesus didn't say it in the Gospels, then it must not be true", but the fact is that even Jesus cited other scriptures and stated that they were the authoritative word of God.
Jesus is one person in the Triune Godhead. The Holy Spirit, another, co-equal person in that same Godhead, inspired the Biblical authors to show that God condemns homosexuality.
So, if you reject the Bible as God's love letter to man, and do not believe that it is inspired from the mouth of God through His Holy Spirit, then what do you use as a source of authority, for doctrine, for correction, for exhortation, for instruction in righteousness as a Christian
and why do you teach two Bible studies according to your testimony?
The Holy Spirit, another, co-equal person in that same Godhead, inspired the Biblical authors to show that God condemns homosexuality.
Since homosexuality was not even a term before the late 1900s that would not have been possible. What they presented were cultural norms and folkways.
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Are you familiar with the Anglican "Three-legged stool" and the Weslayan "quadrilateral"?
I might need to edit that to correct any distorted impression. In EFM (Education for Ministry, an Episcopal program under University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, our leader is a priest but she dones not lord it over the rest of us. We rotate in leading the lessons. The other is a Methodist program that is very informal.
It appears your knowledge of non-fundamentalist Christianity is severely limited.
We believe "The Holy Bible is the rule and guide of faith" for Christians but we do not parse it and seek answers in it for things it does not have the answers to.
You might consider looking at Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but not Literally by Marcus Borg.
Since homosexuality was not even a term before the late 1900s that would not have been possible. What they presented were cultural norms and folkways.
Only the words of which the actions speak of have changed by the modern world.
The meanings/definitions of the words have remained consistent throughout. Therefore that argument is nullified. God who exists outside of time, whose will, word and ways do as well, is not subject to culture nor folkways and has also been consistent regarding such throughout the time of man.
The point wasn't in the glorification of men, or the non-glorification of men.
The point was why do you teach "two Bible Studies" from a source you have adamantly rejected and denied as the source of truth from God's perspective? How do you determine which you receive as truth and which you reject?
My knowledge of the apostasy that is taking place in the Church today is quite extensive actually.
and this is why we find it hard to have love and compassion for our christian brethren....
Whatever you may think of the word, itself, the practice it describes has been around since the beginning of time and is strongly condemned in scripture.
"Practice"? How cruel it is to denigrate another's capacity to love in such a manner. Shame.
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