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You have yet to point to any passage that convincingly says that God says homosexuality is a sin. [/quote]
Well, unless you have a direct line to God, we typically believe what the prophets and Jesus state in the Bible is what God is saying.

Leviticus 18:22: "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable."

Your argument is weird.  Is there a passage in the Bible that explicitly prohibits pedophilia?  Or let's look at slavery.  Would Jesus condone slavery since there is a passage in the Bible that states: "Slaves obey your masters"?

My DC sometimes kicks the back of my chair in the car.  I tell DC to stop.  Then a few seconds later I feel pounding again.  I say to DC, "I told you to stop".  DC says, "But, I wasn't kicking it.  I was punching it".  This is the type of argument you are using, that you would only consider what Jesus explicitly states as the truth, and not the spirit of what he is saying.  This is how my 8 yr old reasons.[/quote]

Not the PP, but P.S. comparing being gay to pedophilia (and slavery!) is super homophobic. If the homophobia label wasn't warranted before (it was), it's fair game now. I'm sure even your 8-year-old could see the distinctions. [/quote]

Not even close.  The logic the PP or you were using is that if Christ didn't explicitly state that homosexuality is a sin, then it must not be.  Just applying that same logic to other sins that were not explicitly address by Christ.[/quote]

No, you're the one with the bizarre logic. You're saying, it's true that Jesus never mentioned homosexuality. But you think you know for sure--for sure!-- that God disapproves. Because you have a direct pipeline to God? Or because you just "know" this somehow. With no other explanation. And your personal and cultural biases have nothing to do with it. Therefore, we should all read "homosexuality is bad" into the gospels anyway.

Truly a WTF moment.

Whatever my faults, at least I don't claim to speak for God when interpreting passages.

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Let me repost what you stated here with a different "sin":

" it's true that Jesus never mentioned beastiality.. But you think you know for sure--for sure!-- that God disapproves. Because you have a direct pipeline to God? Or because you just "know" this somehow."

Like I said, we can say that about any "sin" that Jesus never mentions directly.

BTW, I never talk about this stuff or think much about it in IRL to anyone because it's really not that important in terms of my belief. My DC's BF has gay parents. DC and friend have had sleepovers and hang out a lot.  It doesn't bother me one bit.  Just because I post on here about how I interpret the Bible doesn't make me homophobic.

I'm not a member of the Westboro Baptist church who goes around picketing gays.  But, since OP brought up this topic on a forum, I threw my 2 cents in.  You can believe what you like, as does everyone else, but I do find it interesting to see how people reason how Jesus doesn't consider homosexuality a sin.

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Well, OP here, you can reason with bestiality and pedophilia that a real harm is done.  Neither an animal nor a child can consent to sexual acts.  So it would be against Christianity's moral framework.  However, just because a visible harm is not done does not mean that something is not a sin.  Having sex before marriage is a sin, and theoretically no harm is done.  But it is spiritually considered harmful.  I thought I would get someone's perspective on why homosexuality would or would not be spiritually harmful, but I didn't.[/quote]

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