No, it's because people like you try to take the keys into heaven away from God by making up rules about who can and who can't be christian.
You know, things that God should be doing, not fallible humans.
God states the criteria, not man. We are merely sharing what He has said, so that people don't listen to the wrong people and end up following "another Jesus" one different from the one whom Paul preached and end up where they don't want to go.
Did God also help you with the abominations of lobster, trimming your hair, and wearing mixed fabrics?
We are not under Jewish Law, but that has nothing to do with a license to live in sin. Jesus came not to abolish, but fulfill the law, and give us His Holy Spirit so that we may live righteously in the sight of God.
On a side note:
Eating Lobster/shellfish isn't good for you anyway typically, because they go to the bathroom in their shells all their lives, that is why God told them not to eat shellfish.
it's probably still not a good idea, but again we are not under the Jewish Law. But again, that doesn't mean that we can live in sin.
It would be best if you showed me
exactly where
God said that being homosexual is not ok.
Romans 1:18:32
But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them.
For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualitieshis eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
Yes, they knew God, but they wouldnt worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.
Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.
So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each others bodies.
They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other.
And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.
Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. They know Gods justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.
Bear in mind the concept of sexual identity didn't exist back in the times of Leviticus...
...um yes it did, but it doesn't matter because it is repeated in the New Testament.
When you've convinced yourself that God conveniently believes exactly everything that you believe, it's hard to understand the concept of "interpretation".
No, it isn't that we make God believe what we believe, but that we conformed our thinking to what God has said, so that our thinking is in alignment with His thinking. Not the other way around.
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Sorry, had to add my post and then answer the rest as the forum was acting buggy and I thought I was going to lose my work.
