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This is kind of like asking why a generation ago civil rights was an issue
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This is kind of like asking why a generation ago civil rights was an issueI'm serious.
Why are we debating homosexuality when out of all the sins we need to be "fighting against" we focus on this one?
I mean seriously folks, homosexuality warrants more attention than:
-lying
-the commercializiation/consumerism of current Christian culture
-The fact that "Christian" leaders are committing atrocities all around the world
-That we have done nothing to build up friendships with people from other faiths as a whole
-Or that the majority of non-Christians and increasingly larger numbers of Christians are falling away from a church which they feel cares more about dogma than people.
I'm seriously asking. I can't see how a sexual act is such a big issue. Sin or not, we're all sinning, all the time. I"m sure most of us lie at times. Or get angry at others. Or have lustful thoughts. Why do we go out of our way to focus on gays?
For many the issue with homosexuality has everything to do with prejudice/discrimination and the denial that prejudice/discrimination even sinful.For me the issue with homosexuality has nothing to do with the sin of homosexuality itself but the denial that it is even sinful.
There were and are people who view racial equality as a sin.Can you not understand why people view it as sin? They aren't trying to hate you. Why do you try to compare them to biggots?
Then call 'em on it. I can't stand hypocrisy. If you come upon a Christian who calls homosexual fornication into check, ask him if he does the same thing with heterosexual fornicators.
If folks want to talk about homosexual fornication, then lets also deal with the heterosexual fornication.
Then call 'em on it. I can't stand hypocrisy. If you come upon a Christian who calls homosexual fornication into check, ask him if he does the same thing with heterosexual fornicators.
I think promiscuity for any sexual orientation is wrong. I think cheating on a spouse is wrong. Loving marriage is the way to go.
Since homosexuals have been denied the aegis of "marriage," however, I can't use that term for same-sex couples.
I can only talk about long-term committed relationships. Save for being unable to call it "marriage," those kinds of relationships are no different from a heterosexual marriage.
The reason homosexuality is an issue is because there is no more poverty and no more starvation in the world; everyone has plentiful, abundant and clean drinking water; the homeless problem has been solved; everybody has access to health care; the problem of abortion has been solved; Protestants and Catholics and liberals and conservatives and evangelicals and liberal Christians and Christians and non-Christians have all reconciled and are happily living together as one, big happy human family; the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan have ended and been successfully resolved; we've paid off the U.S. national debt, have a trade surplus and a balanced budget; the entire world respects us again; AIDS has been cured and is no longer a problem; and the overall temperature of the earth is heading blissfully back to normal where it should be.
The only problem remaining to be solved is homosexuality.
Why do we go out of our way to focus on gays?
So in other words, we should focus more on the ills of the world than on the souls of the lost?
Spreading the Gospel and allowing folks the opportunity to come to Christ is primary. If you're poor and starving and you've got Jesus, you're better off than the man mired in sexual sin who does not have Jesus.
I constantly ask this question.
THe answer is quite simple...it's as old as human history itself.
People need to blame. They need scapegoats. It has happened for millennia, and it will continue to happen until people fully give their lives to God.
When you are in God, you do not need to scapegoat anyone for any reason.
Then best off is the poor and starving person who has Jesus and died because the rich, well-off Christian couldn't be bothered to give the poor person something to eat, or something to drink, or a place to live -- or all that other stuff mentioned in Matthew 25:31-46 -- because to do so would have been "a handout" and "welfare" and "creeping socialism" and Heaven knows that good, conservative, American Christians don't want creeping socialism!
I constantly ask this question.
THe answer is quite simple...it's as old as human history itself.
People need to blame. They need scapegoats. It has happened for millennia, and it will continue to happen until people fully give their lives to God.
When you are in God, you do not need to scapegoat anyone for any reason.
Scapegoat? From What? Have you even read any of the other boards? Gays are NOT the only ones being held accountable for their sins.
Scapegoat? From What? Have you even read any of the other boards? Gays are NOT the only ones being held accountable for their sins.
Thank you. If yall ever heard me talking to Catholics about the things they espouse, you'd think I was out to get Catholics.
I told ya, I'm an equal opportunity pointer-outer as I would expect my Christian brothers and sisters who say they love me to be with me.
Yeah man. I have debated with people who engage in pre-marital sex, watch pornography, smoke weed, etc. Gays arent the only ones trying to justify their sin.
I agree that everyone should repent of their sin.As sinners, each and every one of us, there is plenty of finger pointing to be done towards all of us.
And ALL OF US hate being told by others what to do. But that's why conviction of the heart about sin is in God's hand. His people are only tasked to give you His Word that makes men free to show sin as sin.
If you're fornicating, admit that you're fornicating. You've got to admit it before you can confess it and repent.
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