Arguing with other Christians about what sin is is like trying to find a baby blue crayon amidst turquoise. And if you own a box of crayons, you know how similar the two colors are. You'll have to check every single on of the 36 in the box, and by then you forget what you were coloring and now you're just frusterated. Trying to argue homosexuality as a sin or not, as we've all noticed, doesn't exactly bring out the best in us (myself included).
Pro-Gay Arguments:
1. You're just generalizing an entire community. I'm guilty of this too. Can you really blame them. Homosexuality isn't like race or gender. It's not a biological thing, it's a mental thing. All attraction is mental. So it's easier to judge because while obviously no one is identical biologically, mentality is something strange. If some people are afraid of people who are different biologically without any disorder, imagine what sort of superiority some people feel over mentality. (It isn't necessarily wrong if you have an open mind to it though).
2. You're just a conservative. So? They have a political standing. Good for them. Should be pin it on them and act like its something bad? There are wicked conservatives, but there are wicked liberals too. The two words shouldn't be used in religion though, let alone as insults.
Anti-Gay Arguments:
1. This is what the Bible says. The Bible is not God, and no matter how right the Bible is, God should ALWAYS come first. Christians should learn how to have a relationship with God before they read the Bible. Because humans work in a way where if they don't have any consequence the first time, they'll keep believing it. If you put the Bible as a irrefutable law, then when you pray, that's all you'll hear. You have to have a clear, uninfluenced mind or else you might as well be talking to a wall.
2. If you don't know God, you'll never understand. You can't judge a person on your standings. Remember, Christ dined with sinners of every sort and those sinners had the most faith in him. Remember that children would possess the Kingdom of Heaven even though we regard children as "still learning". They do know God. Where the Pharisees of Jesus' time, the "perfect" men, didn't. Hows that? The most Biblically correct men were in the wrong. I'm not saying we should shove the Bible away because the Bible has the story of Christ, the story of Creation. With it we can better understand God. But understand the Bible doesn't mean you understand God. The only way to truly do that is to listen to Him with an unbiased mind.
Arguments on Both Sides:
1. You can't say it's good/bad because you are/aren't gay. By that logic, I can't say that race doesn't matter because I'm not black. Or more appropriately, I can't say that being an adult gives me more freedom because I'm not an adult. Or adults can't say all teenagers are spoiled because they're not modern teenagers (trends change with the weather it seems like, along with attitudes). This argument is on both sides, and frankly, it's silly. Because if this were the case, the argument would not exist. And next, the big one...
2. YOU JUST DON'T GET IT. And here I thought I was the only rebellious, misunderstood teenager. Because I've heard that saying in every chick flick to date. No, I don't get it. But you don't get it. None of us get it. Only God. God gets it and I'm fairly sure He could draw it out on a white board and we still wouldn't get it. BAFRIEND keeps saying we need to take the straight and narrow path. I WISH life in Christ was just a narrow path. It's more like a dark, crooked, tight ropes walk and on one side is rocks and on the other side is sharks. If you try to hold on to your own head you'll loose your balance because you need your arms too balance but if you hold onto the Bible it's heavy and you loose your balance as well. But the Spirit doesn't way anything and that should be where your heart lies.
Truth is, you can't save someone by telling them what is sin. You save someone by telling them what is God. Once they know God, it comes rushing into them on it's own. God's power and wisdom, we can all agree, is greater than humans. So don't you think He'd do a better job teaching them right from wrong?
Pro-Gay Arguments:
1. You're just generalizing an entire community. I'm guilty of this too. Can you really blame them. Homosexuality isn't like race or gender. It's not a biological thing, it's a mental thing. All attraction is mental. So it's easier to judge because while obviously no one is identical biologically, mentality is something strange. If some people are afraid of people who are different biologically without any disorder, imagine what sort of superiority some people feel over mentality. (It isn't necessarily wrong if you have an open mind to it though).
2. You're just a conservative. So? They have a political standing. Good for them. Should be pin it on them and act like its something bad? There are wicked conservatives, but there are wicked liberals too. The two words shouldn't be used in religion though, let alone as insults.
Anti-Gay Arguments:
1. This is what the Bible says. The Bible is not God, and no matter how right the Bible is, God should ALWAYS come first. Christians should learn how to have a relationship with God before they read the Bible. Because humans work in a way where if they don't have any consequence the first time, they'll keep believing it. If you put the Bible as a irrefutable law, then when you pray, that's all you'll hear. You have to have a clear, uninfluenced mind or else you might as well be talking to a wall.
2. If you don't know God, you'll never understand. You can't judge a person on your standings. Remember, Christ dined with sinners of every sort and those sinners had the most faith in him. Remember that children would possess the Kingdom of Heaven even though we regard children as "still learning". They do know God. Where the Pharisees of Jesus' time, the "perfect" men, didn't. Hows that? The most Biblically correct men were in the wrong. I'm not saying we should shove the Bible away because the Bible has the story of Christ, the story of Creation. With it we can better understand God. But understand the Bible doesn't mean you understand God. The only way to truly do that is to listen to Him with an unbiased mind.
Arguments on Both Sides:
1. You can't say it's good/bad because you are/aren't gay. By that logic, I can't say that race doesn't matter because I'm not black. Or more appropriately, I can't say that being an adult gives me more freedom because I'm not an adult. Or adults can't say all teenagers are spoiled because they're not modern teenagers (trends change with the weather it seems like, along with attitudes). This argument is on both sides, and frankly, it's silly. Because if this were the case, the argument would not exist. And next, the big one...
2. YOU JUST DON'T GET IT. And here I thought I was the only rebellious, misunderstood teenager. Because I've heard that saying in every chick flick to date. No, I don't get it. But you don't get it. None of us get it. Only God. God gets it and I'm fairly sure He could draw it out on a white board and we still wouldn't get it. BAFRIEND keeps saying we need to take the straight and narrow path. I WISH life in Christ was just a narrow path. It's more like a dark, crooked, tight ropes walk and on one side is rocks and on the other side is sharks. If you try to hold on to your own head you'll loose your balance because you need your arms too balance but if you hold onto the Bible it's heavy and you loose your balance as well. But the Spirit doesn't way anything and that should be where your heart lies.
Truth is, you can't save someone by telling them what is sin. You save someone by telling them what is God. Once they know God, it comes rushing into them on it's own. God's power and wisdom, we can all agree, is greater than humans. So don't you think He'd do a better job teaching them right from wrong?
