I frankly see this as an issue that Serge the Purge keeps trying to stir the pot with when he has nothing else in his life worth to talk about. Because he's doing this frequently, I think it's safe to assume, nothing much is going on his head, so I hope these recent threads have been mentally stimulating to him, if he reads them, because with the amount of effort and thoughtfulness people on either side are putting on, he could be a professor at Harvard.
Regardless, I see this issue as one constantly thrown about, but clumsily, like one would try and pitch a feather to an over-eager batter.
Who cares?
If you're Gay, and you're a Christian, you're not going to hell. God explicitly states in Leviticus (old testament) that sodomy and homosexuality are sins, but that's the whole point Jesus came down to save humanity. It's irrelevant.
God does not want to condemn people, John explicitly states that:
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."-John 3:17
I see this as the answer to all problems. Grinding your head in the dirt, and trying to find problems with God's love is a useless waste of time. I think Serge would be better off standing in a bucket and trying it lift it up with the handles than try and contemplate the errors with unconditional love.
So it doesn't matter, in a theological sense, because homosexuality is a sin, but living without sin was only possible with Jesus, as far as I know.
So in short: Serge, worry about yourself, if that's too difficult, study things before opening up about how uninformed you are, and adopt the famed
"live and let live" policy which you yourself trumpet and lambast the rest of us with.
Last edited by The_Mac (2008-03-11 19:49:45)