So you do believe I was stating in actuality and meaning to do so how you characterized it? yes? No? True Truth will not change…unless the command of “do not bear false witness” no longer has merit? Again…I would be interested in your answer if you believe your characteriztion of my statments in your previous post were Truth?
That wasn’t addressing the question I asked of you…did YOU bear false witness by characterizing my statements as you did…yes…or no?
NO.
Now…that wasn’t difficult was it…no friend wisdomkeeper that was not what I was saying…you mispoke my meaning…I should have made myself clearer I see.
Yes, perhaps you should have.Now…that wasn’t difficult was it…no friend wisdomkeeper that was not what I was saying…you mispoke my meaning…I should have made myself clearer I see.
Yes indeed…
I just can’t see how you interpreted Romans 1:26-27 as worship practices. It clearly says they they left what was natural for something that was unnatural.In context…the whole first chapter into the second of Romans addresses “worship practices” and “worship”…it is not about sexuality…to gain the favor of a god, temple prostitutes, both male and female, took the place of the god and ritual sex…“sex magic” was performed…Paul is not addressing sexual orientation…the first few verses of chapter 2 are quite interesting as well…yet I rarely…if ever…see them quoted along with the passage you just quoted.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, **and worshiped and served created things **rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
What does it say after? He gave them up to vile passions. So that means that women sleeping with women and men sleeping with men is seen as vile by God.
Oh my!!
Understood…but Paul is addressing the “forms” some pagan worshippers did…including participating in temple prostitution…not a comprehensive exegis of course…but you can get the gist of how I and those who do not find Romans 1 as “normative” teaching for homosexulaity…no more than the story of Lot and his daughters engaging in drunken orgistic sex in a cave is an indictment against marriage.
I know you mean well and have the most sincere intentions of wanting to do what is right. I just fail to see, by your understandings, why we should take anything said in the bible with anything more than a grain of salt. We can justify just about anything in the bible by saying “it was meant for that group” or “only if done under those circumstances”. I don’t understand.
The words of Isaiah resound.No it is not exactly a bunch of bologna. Many Christians do not hold to the Catholic position. Peace.
I didn’t say the Catholic position was only the Catholic position. It might equate or be similar to the Southern Baptist position too for instance. But it’s also still the Catholic position too.
My two daughters were raised around quite a few homosexual and lesbian couples. I worked as a manager in a business that was owned by a gay couple for five years. They were very loving, caring people who were good to my children.
What does this have to do with charity with God? Or maybe we have different definitions of charity.What does that have to do with sin being wrong. Rather one destroys charity with God and the other wounds it, is it still not sin?
Paul wrote Galatians. Paul never met Jesus. Jesus told us to love God with our entire being, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Starting wars with people about who they are and how they live their personal lives accordingly is not an act of love.