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[quote=Anonymous][quote]The commandments don’t mention homosexuality, so your quote from Jesus doesn’t support your position on homosexuality. I don’t care about Billy Graham’s thoughts about taking the so-called harder road in general—I follow different Christian theologians—and in any case this particular quote doesn’t support your specific points about homosexuality.

Homosexuality has been associated with AIDS and gonorrhea, sure, but so has traditional sex. On the other hand, allowing all of God’s creations to express their love is a positive outcome of gay marriage.

I’m with the minister, who wrote that there’s none of Jesus’ openness, love and compassion in your words. All in all, your post is filled with specious reasoning that evidences your ability to ignore both Jesus and basic logic in pursuit of your prejudices, so I won’t bother following up here. I’m not LGTBQ, fwiw.[/quote]

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Instead of being with the minister, you ought to be with God who is the final authority on the matter as laid down in the holy scriptures.

Heterosexual sex is not a tradition, it is the way in which God designed our bodies:  male for female. It is based on biological fact, not patriarchal opinion. 
 Slutty, promiscuous behavior is fornication, as is homosexuality.  It is sin.

Again:  if you cannot see that homosexuality is an abomination, that it is fornication, that it is immoral conduct, and is contrary to the purpose and design of our bodies, you are completely blind. There is no way you can infer from the bible that homosexuality is a good thing, that it is not sin.  You cannot make that case.  You cannot!  And I am not going to try and be nice and sugar-coat my words to spare your feelings, I am going to straight-up tell you what the bible says about it:  homosexuality is a sin. It is [u]unrighteous[/u] behavior. In the Old Testament, a person was to be stoned to death for engaging in it, the same as adultery, because it is destructive and sinful.  Eating shellfish or trimming your beard did not carry a death sentence.  There is a huge difference between the two.

Standing on the weak claim "Jesus did not mention it" is silly.  You are grasping at straws to accommodate and approve of homosexuality so that you can be friends with the world and not be shunned by so-called friends who will call you intolerant, which in liberal circles is a mortal sin.

There is no nice way to say this:  you are wrong.  The bible plainly and clearly teaches everywhere it is mentioned that homosexuality is a sin.  You just cannot avoid this, no matter how hard you try. 
You are advocating for the Christian church to make sinful behavior normal, no different than if it were adultery or drunkenness.

For me to sit by and say nothing is wrong. Although this is God speaking to Ezekiel, I believe it applies to the Christian as well:

Ezekiel 3:18
[i]When I say to a wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn them or speak out to dissuade them from their evil ways in order to save their life, that wicked person will die for their sin, and I will [b]hold you accountable[/b] for their blood.  But if you do warn the wicked person and they do not turn from their wickedness or from their evil ways, they will die for their sin; but you will have saved yourself.[/i]

It is my responsibility to say, "Hey, this is wrong. Repent, turn away from the sin."

Jesus sat and dined with sinners, some of whom were no doubt homosexuals.  But he did not anywhere approve of their sins but told everyone to repent, and sin no more.

I feel sad for homosexuals because they are caught up in a horrible sin, doing with their bodies what ought not to be done. I also feel bad for alcoholics, for people in jail, for drug addicts, liars, murderers, and all other people caught up in the snares of sin.

I do not hate these people or have no compassion, but here, we are discussing what the bible says about homosexuality, which is why true Christians are fleeing the Episcopal and other liberal denominations in droves because liberal denominations are teaching falsely that homosexuality is not sinful.

The issue is not about whether my words come across as friendly or compassionate which is all you seem to care about instead of the truth, the issue is what God, through the Holy Spirit, has declared concerning the matter.  And God has clearly revealed in the Old Testament, and through the writings of the apostles, that homosexuality is sinful.  It is only since the homosexuals have organized, and gained some ground in the judiciary, and our people have turned from righteousness that it is being foisted upon the church and Christians are to, even despite thousands of years to the contrary,  welcome homosexuals in their midst as normal, and refuse to call their behavior a sin.  Give me a break!  I can find no compassionate, open way to tell you to "take a hike, and take your false, wicked teachings, no matter that they hide behind the friendly sounding terms of tolerance and diversity, somewhere else".

What the homosexuals do, as do other sinners outside the church do, there is not much I can do.

But within the church, when someone tries to say a sin is not a sin, I take issue with that, and not just me but many other Christians who will stand up against the false teachings of "homosexuality is not a sin so it is okay to do it".

No matter how many times you call us bigots, homophobes, uncompassionate, or any other ad-hominum label you can throw against us when it is shown that what you are saying does not match up with the holy scriptures, we true Christians who love our Lord Jesus and who love his Word will stay true to God, stay on the narrow path instead of the broad path of "diversity and tolerance" which are code words for "do not say what we are doing is sin, just be nice and let us into your churches and accept us.  Wolves and sheep really can get along, why don't you let us in and see?"

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