Thursday, August 27, 2009

"I want to get something out there, just to clear up some misconceptions about what people think about Christians and gay marriage. Well, I’m speaking as a Lutheran, which is a Christian denomination.
Do you know exactly where in the Bible Christ mentioned homosexuality? Nowhere. True Christians, who follow the word of Christ, are aware of this. Jesus never once denounced homosexuality or even mentioned it. Nowhere in the entire New Testament.
Homosexuality is not a sin. If you go along with word-for-word what the Old Testament says, where it is briefly mentioned, then you are not allowed to eat shellfish because they are an abomination, it’s alright to sell your children to repay a debt, and you can take as many wives and concubines as you want.
The Old Testament is a history of a wrathful, hot tempered God who damned you for eating meat on a Friday. The New Testament is God mellowing down and sending part of himself down to earth to truly experience mankind from a human point of view, and seeing that even the worst of us can truly be sorry for what we’ve done. So he forgives us. So back to homosexuality. It’s not a sin. The only time it was considered “sinful” was in the times of Sodom, where it was listed as one of many pastimes the residents indulged in. It by itself is not a sin. What I believe is that when God talks about homosexuality and Sodom, he mentions it because people are indulging in it (along with many other things) with no self-control. That’s what I believe the true sin was- indulging in your temptations without any disregard for your own morals and sense of right and wrong.
A lot of Christian denominations take the homosexuality thing and twist it because they fear it.
It’s different from what they feel, so they claim it’s evil. Just like a lot of things- black people, retardation, mental disease (I’m not equating those things, so don’t get excited); these are all things that people in certain areas of the world were not used to normally, so they decided it was evil and tried to tuck it away or overpower it.
And that’s a sin."

i completely agree with everything this person said.
and when people openly disagree with me in an unpolite manner,
i get into arguements over this subject.

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