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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we don't have to worry about sin then why did Jesus have to be crucified? We are all sinners. Homosexual acts are sin as are premarital sex and extramarital sex... Selfishness ... Lying...stealing, gossiping, swearing with Gods name .  We all probably sin at least 10 times a day.  Having a homosexual wedding ceremony probably takes it to outright rebellion levels against God similar to having a satanic wedding ceremony , but I'm sure those people probably don't care .[/quote]

Of course sin is an issue. Yes, of course, we all agree that murder and greed and adultery and fighting (even fighting your enemy) are all "sins" that Jesus clearly defines in the gospels.

The problem here is that YOU are trying to define "sin" to include homosexuality, in a way that the rest of us don't find scriptural support for. 
Jesus is NOT recorded as having talked about homosexuality, your reference to Leviticus seems hypocritical (put down that shellfish) and [b]out of step with Jesus' own attitude to that book, and your attempt to take Paul as God's literal words is inconsistent with the poor man's own representation of himself.[/b][/quote]

You keep talking about how unimportant Paul is, but your characterization is not consistent with the Bible.  You just keep saying it over and over without proving that it is true.  Where does the Bible say that we do not have to take Paul literally?[/quote]

Nobody here says he's unimportant. He's one of the first eye witnesses -- in fact he met the resurrected Jesus, and he met with Peter, James and others who knew Jesus before and after the resurrection. His testimony on these issues, and the very early creed in Corinthians I, are priceless for establishing the authenticity of Jesus' life, death and resurrection. Paul also wrote some beautiful and inspirational passages on faith.

That said, Paul never claimed to be a prophet speaking *for* God. So his opinions on homosexuality, women, and so on are not God's literal words, to me and to others here apparently.

Please prove to me that Paul is a "prophet" in the sense of speaking for God. If you can do that I would certainly take him literally. But you can't do that, you can only use words like "divinely inspired." You'd be contradicting Paul himself, who called hinself a "disciple" and most definitely never called himself a prophet).[/quote]

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