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Hmm...wonder what "conservatives" are gonna do now...they HATE this filth but they LOVE their jews...oh and its put here because I knew this is where it was gonna be put anyways so figured I would save the trouble. Media or Education would have been a better place but eh.
The Jewish (Old Testament) scriptures teach against homosexuality. The Christian (New Testament) scriptures, too, speak against "deadly sins" and someone compiled them thusly: "67 deadly sins"
The 67 deadly sins of the New Testament. - The Landover Baptist Church Forum
Preacher, do you love sinners? Do you know anyone who has not sinned even once in his or her lifetime, other than an innocent infant?
Christ's teachings were against sin, but challenged his disciples to go where sinners go and save them. You can't save someone you've sent to hell before God does. And if a gay man saved your best friend's life on the battle field, or read scriptures to someone in a nursing home to comfort them, and in doing so the nursing home resident sees the light of salvation? And what about Rahab? She's the prostitute who literally saved Moses and his vagabond travellers on their way to the Promised Land, by harboring two spies, one of whom took Moses' place and actually led God's people into the promised land. His name was Joshua. God told him to NEVER be afraid, and that he would sustain him through everything. Moses forgot to give credit to God for furnishing water from the rock, which is why he was sidelined to experience an unmarked grave just outside the promised land on a hill looking over it, as I recollect from reading.
Finally, even if thinking about homosexuality and its practice in particular making you feel seasick inside your gut, do we judge them before they come to St. Peter's gate? I'm inclined to go with judgment being God's job, and often discernment, for Rahab who spread her legs thousands of times to feed her family and relished it, was given respect among the Hebrew community that Moses led.
Part of Christian growth is loving people who literally may turn our stomachs. It is hard to live with the way things other people make them to be. The mother whose marriage is a disaster compared to war smokes herself to death at the age of 47, leaving 2 children who have not reached the age of accountability yet and learn bad ways of doing drugs for kicks and having no one to guide them. Will smoking mom be punished for leaving her youngest to the dogs who ate them for breakfast? Is it God's plan? Every single one of her children was at one time or another reason divorced because they had no one to counsel them through the inevitable rough places in their lives, but ultimately turned to Christ for forgiveness. If we forgive those who are sorry, do we forgive the gay person who at age 67 decides mom and dad were right, he or she should have married a member of the opposite sex and had children to comfort them in their old age, and prays to God for forgiveness for his bad choice at a critical time in his or her youth, can we forgive them and restore them to communion rightly?
I can't answer for anyone who hasn't juggled scriptures out, trying to find the right thing that God would do in any circumstance, even though we may loathe the behavior, do we realize we've committed sins also, and sometimes pretty bad judgment caused us to do it, are we excused? Or do we leave it to God's discretion to save or not to save somebody we find repugnant?
Sometimes, I think we need to just take a step back and tell God to remove the burden of judgment from our shoulders so his will be done, which may not fall in our lifetime. And we know from the scriptures that God loves his creation of man and he gave us a world full of intrigue, variety, and to us free choices to make. WE may not like what we are seeing, but we nonetheless must allow God to be the judge, and we will not know what it is at the time our anger and disenchantment is molten hot. We want instant gratification. But quite often, God's plan was here before us and will go on after we pass to the other side. Before we judge all persons of abberant behavior we must first recollect the perfect prayer of our lord Jesus Christ: "forgive us our debts (transgressions) as we forgive our debtors (those who tresspass against us). It's too bad we don't say the Lord's Prayer every 5 minutes to remind us of the Kingdom of God being within us, and how fortunate we will be if we forgive those who makes us sick at our stomachs. Yes, we can discern freely, God allows us a measure of room, but he expects us to give others the same as he gives us. I don't know what another person is going to say or do tomorrow, or when I will slip and fail by some unforseen soundbite that changes the course of salvation. I hope all who do not see the Lord will see him for who he is before they die, so he can bless all for fighting the good fight and be blessed without conditions through the power of God.
