Christians - what is your opinion about homosexuality?

[misguided03]

It's interesting to me to see Christians arguing with their fellow Christians over the meaning behind the passages in their book.

One of the finer points of Christianity is everyone is suppose to learn and study with and without others which leads to a vast difference of opinions on many matters lol I personally allow everyone their own opinion. The only thing I urge is love of the lord

 

[misguided03]

Really? I guess I haven't heard it or I just don't remember. I was getting ready to go back and add a smiley to my stfu

Yeah he does a much better job of telling it then I do though. It's on his true stories I made up mp3.

 

[cindylou]

technically the 7 deadly sins are not in the bible...formally but I get what you're saying.

Annie, what about the picture of marriage between a man and a woman as Jesus and the Church? How does that apply for two men or women?

 

[misguided03]

Ok one more here, so we all know the story of creation etc. Here's the rest of the story god went to Adam and said I'm going to make you a campanion what traits would you like so Adam thought awhile and said I would like love, compasion, understanding someone who can walk by my side who can be everything I cant. This went on for sometime finally Adam said ok I think that's it what will that cost me ? God said a arm and a leg. So Adam thought for awhile and finally said what can I get for a rib ?

 

[AFeedz]

Sorry Feedz, I don't want you to feel dumped on but i can't help but respond.

For one, this should be a matter of common sense. In Genesis 2 God puts Adam to sleep and creates Eve from his own body and brings her to Adam. Jesus confirms the divine institution of man and woman in marriage when questioned by the pharisees about divorce. And the remainder of scripture is clear in that sexual conduct outside of that boundarie is sin. Period. I have read your explanation in other's writings and entertaining as it is, that's an awfully long end run to try and get God's approval of their own desire. Same gender sex is no more or less wrong than hetero sex outside of marriage. Its the way God set it up from the beginning.

Next, your statement above missed the mark badly. Paul's comments are by way of trying to give great emphasis to just how far mankind could fall to depravity in their sin. So far did they fall that they fell into "vile affections"...Paul admonishes us to flee fornications. In 1Cor 7:2 he emphasizes God's standard again, 'let each man have his own wife and each woman her own husband.' Again, the teaching of scripture is clear. God ordained sex between a man and a woman inside the bounds of marriage. The clear message of the bible is seen from start to finish.

Funny you should bring up God creating woman from man in Genesis 2, because in Genesis 1, God created man and women together, simultaneously. So yeah, God never contradicts Himself.

If God has such a problem with this, why are there scriptures welcoming Eunochs and the effeminate in to His kingdom?

And my statement did not miss the mark. In the thousands of pages of the Bible, and the hundreds of laws, rules and teachings do you really think if God had wanted it to be known that a man should not love another man, or a woman love another women, He would not have made it known? I just can't agree with that. Somehow, he found the time to tell us of so many evils, even took the time to tell us lustful homosexual sex was wrong, but He somehow thinks homosexual love is wrong but left that out?

 

[mrplunkey]

Your example is far fetched and you know it. lol @ starting this with saying I'm stretching, then coming up with this example.

So what you are saying is, when the Bible says something is wrong, it could only possibly mean the action is wrong, not the intent behind it. Funny. I believe all seven of the seven deadly sins are really involving someone's motive for an action, not actions themselves. You'll notice the sins are anger, lust, greed, etc. They are not murder, homosexual sex, etc.

So it's funny you're trying to argue that motive itself could not possibly be the sin. Are you calling God a liar?!!!!!!!!!

Matthew 5:28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.



^ Sounds to me like God has no problem saying intent is just as, if not more a sin than actions.

The New Testament says certain actions are wrong.

On some issues, the New Testament goes even further and says even thinking certain issues are wrong (i.e. The Sermon on the Mount).

But you are intentionally using the intent issue to derail the real point of the passage -- using homosexual sex as an example of behavior distasteful to God.

Again... read the scriptures any way you want. But you are setting the bar very low for interpretation. For example, the New Testament marriages were entirely religious -- they weren't part of Roman law. I don't see anywhere that Christ instructs us that men can only exclusively have one wife either. So if I'm married and meet another woman in a bar, why can't I just declare her my wife under Christian law and then bang the hell out of her? Show me scripture that explicitly prevents me from having additional "spiritual" wives under New Testament law.

 

[AFeedz]

technically the 7 deadly sins are not in the bible...formally but I get what you're saying.

Annie, what about the picture of marriage between a man and a woman as Jesus and the Church? How does that apply for two men or women?

I don't get the question, but I'm sure I have an answer. lol

 

[mrplunkey]

It's interesting to me to see Christians arguing with their fellow Christians over the meaning behind the passages in their book.

I know you aren't talking about me here. I'm an atheist.

 

[billfred]

Most theologians would disagree with you. They studied all day, there whole lives. Now your claiming to know what the Bible "actually says". What if you have changed the scriptures to say what your agenda is. I mean you can't deny the fact NT talks about same sex relationships not being ok. Now do I claim they will go to hell, I sure hope not. I wish nobody goes to hell, not a great place.

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[misguided03]

Arguing religion = pointless you will never change a persons core beliefs when they are on the defensive.