Portugal legalizes Sodomy/ Homo marriage is legal now.

[Intense]

So when you make bad assumptions and false accusations your way of reconciling is to insult others to refuse accepting responsibility for your own actions.

My assumptions and accusations were correct. You are a Puke. I just don't hold it against you. Maybe someday you will grow out of it. Experience will change your views. I am responsible for all of my actions. There is no way that any of us avoid that one way or another.

You accused me of saying you do something when I never said you do it then when that is pointed out you simply call me names and totally refuse to admit your error.

Show me the accusation. Be Specific. Do not add, do not take away.

 

[Bass v 2.0]

The narrative shows they were in the very least bisexual.

Now he is a bisexual!!

You sodomite lovers never give up.

Since david had several wives and got naked with Jonathon and kissed he was either bisexual or he had the wives strictly for reproduction and political purposes. I realize this is all way beyond your ability to be honest but it doesn't mean I have to give up on hoping one day you will realize your bigotry is your prison.

David and Jonathan did not get naked, nor were either of the two bisexual, you're lying and reaching because you have no evidence for anything you say.

 

[CurveLight]

Not many of us live by the laws of those days, to the letter. Outside of Islam, that is.

We are all accountable to our maker for sin, what ever the nature of it. That may be your best argument.

Christians who reference the OT for the purpose of condemning people only condemn themselves to a life of spiritual blindness while also sending the booming message they are hypocrites.

People who assume like you tend to drive off of cliffs. I am not condemning anyone, Puke. Christ condemned the Sin, not the Sinner. He also pointed out that we were already condemned through the Law, Gay and Straight, and that He came to give new life. Try to digest that without pissing yourself. Think out of the box.

There ya go. I never said "Intense" was guilty of doing that but you made the assumption I was speaking personally about you then went on a whiny rant based on that assumption. I really don't give a shit if you still deny it. See ya.

 

[Intense]

CHRISTIAN ANTHROPOLOGY AND HOMOSEXUALITY Series
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This 1997 series on Homosexuality was published in L'Osservatore Romano, the semi-official newspaper of the Holy See.

1. Homosexuality in the context of Christian Anthropology
2. Homosexuality and Classical Antiquity
3. Homosexuality and the Old Testament
4. Homosexuality and the New Testament
5. Sexuality and friendship in Early Christianity
6. The Homosexual Condition: I. Definition and causal factors
7. The Homosexual Condition: II. Structural Attitudes
8. Lesbianism
9. The homosexual condition and constitutional law
10. Should the law formally recognize homosexual unions?
11. Do homosexual couples have a right to marriage?
12. Antecedents to homosexuality: science and moral evaluation
13. Moral criteria for evaluating homosexuality
14. Elements of pastoral care for homosexual persons


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Provided Courtesy of:
Eternal Word Television Network
5817 Old Leeds Road
Irondale, AL 35210
Eternal Word Television Network, Global Catholic Network







Christian Antropology and Homosexuality

 

[Intense]

Then there is a third account, recorded in the First Book of Samuel, about the bond of friendship between David and Jonathan, Saul's son. In fact, after David's victory over Goliath and his meeting with Saul, we read: "When he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul" (1 Sm 18:1; cf. 18:3; 19:1; 20:4ff.). And after Jonathan's death in battle, David mourns him in lyrical words: "Your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women" (2 Sm 1 :26).

Certain advocates of homosexuality would be satisfied to find a biblical foundation for it. But it would not be honest to omit certain clarifications of a philological and cultural nature. With regard to the first text cited, two observations must be made: one concerns the image of a soul closely linked to another (expressed by the Hebrew verb qashar), to suggest a relationship of the most intense love; well, this also occurs elsewhere with regard both to the love of the Canaanite Shechem for Dinah, the daughter of Jacob (cf. Gn 34:3ff.), and Jacob's own love for his son Benjamin (cf. Gn 44:30f.), which turns out to be no more than a mere, though very expressive, metaphor. The other observation concerns the phrase "he loved him as himself", which recalls Lv 19:18, where the people are enjoined to love their neighbour (meaning probably their compatriots) as themselves. (Some have preferred to translate it: "Love your neighbour because he is like you"), even if the case in question concerns a special relationship. With regard to the second text, it is true that in the manuscript tradition of the Vulgate the Latin "super amorem mulierum" created difficulties for some copyists, who altered it to "sicut mater unicum amat filium", referring instead to maternal love; but the text refers precisely to that type of love which God has instilled in his creatures and is so strong that it makes one forget father and mother (cf. Gn 2:24), but which in our case is recalled merely as an example. It is moreover significant that in ancient Jewish tradition, no mention is made of a homosexual interpretation of the story. In short, the texts concerning the relationship between David and Jonathan are a testimony to the experience of a strong, tender friendship, no different from other classical texts about Orestes and Pylades, Euryalus and Nisus, Cloridano and Medoro, and in the Old Testament itself, the two women Naomi and Ruth (cf. Rt 1:16f.). On the other hand, the relationship between David and Jonathan is also based on a military alliance made in the Lord's name (cf. 1 Sm 18:4; 20:8; 14-16).



Concluding remarks

Putting aside then the friendship of David and Jonathan, which does not properly belong to our case studies, the Bible's tough, not to say harsh, tone with homosexuality is surprising. But here an explanation seems necessary. We must not of course adopt the Bible's primitive attitude of drastic harshness, or we would end up requesting the death penalty for those who succumbed even once to this weakness. A homosexual who yields to his inclinations is no more guilty than an adulterer, especially if his behaviour is due to a particular psychological or even physical disposition. But to distance ourselves from this rather crude and primitive mentality does not mean to reject the moral principles and guidelines it reflects. In the Old Testament these are not as clear as they are in the New Testament and in later moral reflection. The Old Testament laws we have examined express, more than anything else, a preoccupation with acts which, should they gain a foothold, would threaten to destroy society. Nonetheless we can say that certain ethical principles, which will be better formulated later on, are already clearly, though implicitly, expressed in the Old Testament.

This appears even more clearly, if we consider the overall message about sexuality presented in the Bible, which we can only briefly mention here. It concerns the doctrine of the complementarity of the human couple created by God in his own image. It is not right to say, as did Philo of Alexandria, and has sometimes been maintained in the past, that for the Bible the only purpose of sexuality is conception and reproduction. The couple is created in God's image also for the love they express and achieve: the love of spouses which first spreads within the family, to create for the children brought into the world that atmosphere and spiritual warmth to which they have a right and which, they particularly need in their early years; the love which, by multiplying families with internal harmony, creates a society as the divine plan intends it to be.

It can also be pointed out that God's plan for sexuality and for society also includes demands of renunciation and sacrifice. Not only are the sacrifices of married couples needed to put this plan into action (including sometimes the sacrifice of being faithful to one's partner), but also the sacrifices of those who are celibate by choice or necessity: although they possess the normal sexual instincts, they are called to sublimate them for the good of society, or because of their particular situations or because they have accepted the mission of renouncing them in order to be better able to help others in fulfilling their mission. Jesus will explain all these things better in the New Testament.

But perhaps the greatest misfortune today is not that of homosexuality or adultery, which nevertheless cause or hasten the ruin of so many couples and families. There have always been weaknesses of this kind among men and women, proof of the deep wound inflicted on human nature by original sin. But there is also redemption: by becoming incarnate, the Word of God took on our own nature in order to heal it. It is important to open ourselves to him in faith, accepting the salvation he came to offer us. To do this, we must acknowledge that we are sinners and turn to him as our true Saviour. Indeed, without a sense of sin we are aware only of our own selfish needs. But the blame for this should not be placed so much on homosexuals as on man in general, who by eliminating the sense of sin, also eliminates the perception of his own moral limits, a perception that could instead offer him a smoother way towards self-fulfilment by a humble and trusting openness to the Redeemer's grace.

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[CurveLight]

Now he is a bisexual!!

You sodomite lovers never give up.

Since david had several wives and got naked with Jonathon and kissed he was either bisexual or he had the wives strictly for reproduction and political purposes. I realize this is all way beyond your ability to be honest but it doesn't mean I have to give up on hoping one day you will realize your bigotry is your prison.

David and Jonathan did not get naked, nor were either of the two bisexual, you're lying and reaching because you have no evidence for anything you say.

Okay. Whatever you say.

 

[Intense]

Christians who reference the OT for the purpose of condemning people only condemn themselves to a life of spiritual blindness while also sending the booming message they are hypocrites.

People who assume like you tend to drive off of cliffs. I am not condemning anyone, Puke. Christ condemned the Sin, not the Sinner. He also pointed out that we were already condemned through the Law, Gay and Straight, and that He came to give new life. Try to digest that without pissing yourself. Think out of the box.

There ya go. I never said "Intense" was guilty of doing that but you made the assumption I was speaking personally about you then went on a whiny rant based on that assumption. I really don't give a shit if you still deny it. See ya.

The only assumption there is yours. You should not be Condemning Anyone.

 

[CurveLight]

Hahahahaha....like clockwork.

 

[Intense]

Hahahahaha....like clockwork.

OT/NT... Primary message is Repentance/Reconciliation. Like Clockwork.