Did you just equate homosexual love to that of loving a murderer? Like... that the sin of murder is equal to the "sin" of homosexuality?
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Did you just equate homosexual love to that of loving a murderer? Like... that the sin of murder is equal to the "sin" of homosexuality?
Agreed.
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Not directly, but my point is that we all make choices which God does not approve of...and if we refuse to repent, He will have no other option but to judge us for those decisions.
If God already knows the outcome, then free will is an illusion.
Sure. As soon as you quote me where I pushed my beliefs onto you, I'll apologize.
I get what you're trying to convey here, but I didn't choose who i am attracted to and I spent half of my life coming to terms with that.
You're absolutely right! Forgive my use of the incorrect word. Nobody chooses who they're attracted to.
At the risk of revealing too much of my own history, I didn't purposely choose to be emotionally drawn to a married woman, when I was 20 years old. But I still pursued her anyway, and if I hadn't repented, God would've been perfectly just to punish me for that.
Not a prob: I've read enough of your posts here to know where you were coming from. Just felt the correction needed to happen before someone else posting grabbed a hold of it.
As for the book in question, haven't read it but if the author suggests 'choice' or 'lifestyle', he may not be a bigot but he is definitely full of shit.
Not the same. I didn't get to choose my eye color either.
Well, I believe that while its still debatable whether emotions are sourced in our DNA, the choices we make are always deliberate on our part.
Not debatable to me. I'm known that who I was attracted to was an innate part of who I am for half a century. It took half my life to come to terms with that because the Judeo-Christian world culture I grew up in and lived in hates fags.
Which bi always gets counted as one.
The Author in question, Frank Turek, has some rather old fashioned views on marriage.
From Wikipedia.
"Old" does not automatically mean "wrong", just as "new" does not automatically mean "right". You judge each one, according to their own merits and/or effects.
No. It this case it definitely means wrong.
Why? Because you don't like it, or because some deem homosexuality "socially acceptable?" Since when is that the proper determining factor?
The bottom line about all of this, is that I don't have any right whatsoever, to tell you or anyone else how to live. But as the eternal Creator of all life, God does, whether you believe in Him or not. If you want to rebel, that's your business. But as for me, I choose to do the best I can and submit. I'm not perfect, and I know I make mistakes, but that's where His love and mercy comes in. Focusing only on God's love or justice, at the expense of either one, only gives you half of the total picture...which results in an unreasonable bias either way.
True. And I am glad that is a privilege He has reserved for Himself.
If it is, then it's very convincing.
No apology is requested.
I am convinced that people don't choose their sexual orientation. If they did, no sane person would have chosen to be homosexual, given the treatment they could expect through most of history.
Maybe that's why my perspective is different. When I was at my worst, in terms of homophobia, I was not a Christian. And ironically, I had Christians telling me to stop being such an
hole.
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