Your passion is good, it’s no different to Peter’s passion when he cut the ear off of the high priest’s servant who was sent to arrest Jesus.
We can pick and choose analogies. Another person might say it’s passion equal to Jesus overturning tables in the temple.
People have always misstreated the followers of Christ, so when they do this, stand tall and fight back with the Love and Mercy of Christ, than he will surely be pleased with you.
I get so passionate sometimes that I don’t see it from the other perspective, replace during this topic the words “hetrosexual” with “homosexual” and vice versa, than read them again, if this were infact true
But it isn’t.
and christ was against hetrosexual desires, this would be a very heavy cross for us to carry, we would know that it was disordered not natural or normal, and to try and live a lifestyle similar to a homosexual one would only make our crosses heavier, because deep down we would be digging a deeper hole for ourselves by living a lie,
This goes to the point, however, that we
are all sinners. We
all struggle with desires that are not of God’s perfect will, yet we do not all go out demanding that we not only be allowed to practice these behaviors openly, but that others must applaud and respect them.
Let’s take a simple thing like smoking. Where is the concern for the feelings of smokers? Where is this deep, abiding concern for the feelings of drug abusers and heroine addicts? What if people were out in the streets announcing that they look at porn or masturbate and they’re proud of it, and demanding that a bakery bake them a cake celebrating that they do so?
I do agree with you in being compassionate and merciful. Many saints in history has lived that message. At the same time, however, Jesus
did rage and overturn tables in the temple. He
did call Peter Satan (“Get behind me, Satan.”) Plenty of saints have
not been all sweet and gentle harmonious light, but were very forceful in speaking out against sin.
My question to you is: what is the answer?
Do you think that perhaps there’s room for both?
I will also add that I think you’re mistaken in portraying this as a situation in which homosexuals invariably struggle with these desires. Some do. Some don’t. Some celebrate it, march in the streets, and aggressively push it on society. We can’t make blanket statements and shape our every response to a supposed, but untrue situation.
Remember Christ forgave them as they were nailing him to the cross.
Yes, he did. But He didn’t take back any of the ‘hurtful’ words He said to the money changers in the temple, or the Pharisees, or any of the others He provoked.
I’m just going to add here that in reading the several pages of discussion that have arisen since last night, I can’t help but notice that a number of issues are never addressed. I see a poster calling another names and making sneering put-downs, but not actually addressing the issues raised.
There are many reasons to object to creating ‘gay marriage.’ (I will not call it ‘legalizing’ gay marriage, because that implies that at some point such a thing existed and was outlawed. This is not the case.) Yet none of these things are addressed. They’re ignored in favor of launching insults. This, to me, speaks volumes. It is foolish to overturn the experience of the entire history of mankind, of every civilization, ever, in every corner of this planet, unless we have some very firm reasons.
Proponents of creating ‘gay marriage’ and overturning everything the world has ever known or deemed wise, please go back and actually answer the questions raised in the last five or six pages. Please prove to us that it is a good idea.
*]Studies and anecdotes both suggest that being raised by homosexual couples is not the healthiest option for children. Please go back and address the many links posted showing this. Simply declaring them ‘invalid sources’ is not good enough. Why are your sources, all very pro-homosexual, more valid?
*]Studies and personal experience show that the homosexual lifestyle is not equivalent to the heterosexual lifestyle. As just one instance: the astoundingly high number of sexual partners.
*]This promiscuity affects the children witnessing it.
*]This promiscuity affects the health of those involved in it.
*]This promiscuity affects all of us: in the medical costs involved, in huge amounts of tax money going to research to solve an illness that we already had the cure to (quit sleeping around); in employees losing work time to health issues, and other employees having to pick up the slack.
*]The demands that we celebrate a sexual behavior and teach it to our children in schools!
*]The steadily increasing attacks of freedom of conscience.
These are facts. And repeatedly, the answer to these facts is to call names: hateful, bigoted.
