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Telling those who refuse to repent to stop sinning will only make people mad. We're told to hold each other accountable though, right? We're told in scripture how to deal with sin in the church. We hold brethren and the lost to different standards.Actually, it is just the opposite. We are to preach the evangel ("Good Message" or "Good News") to the lost, showing them that not only can the Law not save anyone, but by the Law we are all deserving of nothing other than death, but that Jesus provides the answer, and that through His Grace.
But, while Christians are certainly to encourage one another and together we are to study the scriptures and grow in grace and learning, we are specifically commanded not to judge one another.
It's not mentioned in any light, all we get is universal condemnation of same sex sex.Well God MADE gay people gay, so your argument doesn't work.
If "orientation" was an sin in the eyes of God, He
a) would have spoken of gay/bi and transgender marriage in a negative light
and
b) wouldn't have made people gay
Well God MADE gay people gay, so your argument doesn't work.
If "orientation" was an sin in the eyes of God, He
a) would have spoken of gay/bi and transgender marriage in a negative light
and
b) wouldn't have made people gay
a) would have spoken of gay/bi and transgender marriage in a negative light
and
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders … (1Cor 6:9)
I have no agenda. I am a conservative Christian, and when I was saved, I chose to accept that the Scriptures, in their original manuscripts, were God-breathed, and profitable for for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16)
I believe in reading the scriptures naturally. This means treating them as literally as possible, but recognizing poetic forms (such as similies and metaphors). Whenever there is any question about the intent of a verse, I ask how the original readers would have understood it. I also pray for guidance from the Holy Spirit. Sometimes, in order to understand how the original readers would have understood a passage, it is necessary to examine other works written in the same culture and at the same time, or to read commentaries written as close in time to the scripture as possible, or to examine the archeological evidence.
I believed, as I had been taught, that the Bible condemns homosexuality, right up until I started studying what the Bible actually says, rather than what other people told me it said. It was the Bible, and the Holy Spirit that convinced me that while a certain action was forbidden to the Jews, and while fornication, adultery, and incest are wrong whether the other person is male or female, the Bible is deliberately silent on all private physical relations within a marriage covenant, and that covenants between God's people are blessed even when they are the same gender.
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders (1Cor 6:9)
I do not agree with sin nor do I choose to agree with lifestyles that perpetualy break the Lord's commandments."Objectively"?
Maybe you should find a dictionary. There's NOTHING "objective" about bigotry.
As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer (1 Tim 1-3)
I do not agree with sin nor do I choose to agree with lifestyles that perpetualy break the Lord's commandments.
How about a loving commited sexual relationship between a 10 year old boy and a 50 year old man ?OFFENDERS. NOT people in a loving committed relationship.
Jesus and the OT only speak of marriage between a man and a woman and Jesus makes clear the legality over marriage when he speaks on divorce.
Also, for the one millionth time:
OFFENDERS. NOT people in a loving committed relationship.
We are indeed told to 'go and sin no more'. This is good and honourable behaviour.
We are not, however, told to 'go and tell other people to sin no more'. This is neither good nor honourable behaviour.
We are not, however, told to 'go and tell other people to sin no more'. This is neither good nor honourable behaviour.
As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer (1 Tim 1-3)
I was skimming and thought you were one of them.Howcome you changed what I said?
I know we are in agreement. I am just trying to figure out why
you quoted part of what I said and then changed a part of it.
I kept looking at it, trying, but I still couldn't figure it out. lol
What I said was:
If "orientation" was an option in the eyes of God, He
a) would have spoken of gay/bi and transgender marriage in a positive light
and
b) would have given us alternative bodies to use as we wish
The Lord NEVER spoke of anything outside a man and a woman
in marriage in a positive light. EVER. OT or NT
So we are agreed!
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