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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't know why BBC1 feels compelled to keep writing. I would let it go.[/quote]

BBC1 here,

If I had been in a verbal debate and was confronted with “Jesus did not condemn homosexuality so it is not a sin” and “You are a hypocrite for eating shellfish but condemn homosexuality”  I would not have known how to respond.

I would not have an answer, because it is an angle of attack I have not prepared a defense against other than “The bible says it is wrong so it is wrong.”   But the bible does say eating shellfish is wrong, it is unclean, abominable food you must avoid, but I eat oyster stew sometimes so... Gotcha!

2 Timothy 2:15  [i]  Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.[/i]

2 Timothy 4:1
[i]I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.[/i]

I view what I wrote as a study exercise to become a better workman for Christ.  I was displeased with myself that I could not answer all of this from my own brain. Sometimes I had to find bible verses by internet searching using phrase fragments from memory, and citing others who had studied before me.

This shows that I need to study more.  I could not provide an instant answer, not in any season.  I was shown to be deficient, so I was compelled to research, study, and write so as to correct this deficiency on my part.  
 
The statement “Jesus said nothing about homosexuality so it is not sin” is so deviously clever it took a lot of thinking and study to respond.  I know that statement is a logical fallacy. I had heard of “argument from silence” before but it escaped my memory and I had never seen it used this way.

It is the same fallacy some Churches of Christ use when they argue that since the bible is silent concerning musical instruments during worship, then musical instruments are prohibited during worship.  Rather than argue against the whole denomination which would accomplish nothing, when I moved away I left the Church of Christ for a non-denominational bible church.   Their “musical instrument logic”  is similar to logic such as “since padded pews are not mentioned in the bible, it is wrong to sit on padded pews in the church so you should sit your butt on the hard wood and suffer.  That is the least you can do seeing how much our Lord suffered.”

Jesus made rebutting attacks look real easy:   “Show me a penny...whose face is on it?”   I do not have that caliber of wisdom so I have to work harder.  The challenge to answer a false statement compelled me to write as much as I did because this is going to keep charging in like a rabid dog foaming at the mouth to bite all the Christians it can, so Christians will need to put down the rabid dog  shooting it with the word of God.

Homosexuality is not something I give much thought to:  it is a sin, the bible says don’t do it.  The end.  There is nothing more to think about. The bible says it is wrong, it is wrong.  End of discussion.  The issue is settled. It was settled thousands of years ago.  
 
Non-Christians, I expect them to be “cold” concerning God, do not expect them to say anything but “I do not believe that b.s. bible crap because it was made up ages ago by people afraid of thunder and thought it was some god up there being angry at them for some reason. It is stupid  --get the stupid away from me.”

I get that, it is a clear boundary cold against God. I know which side of the fence the non-Christian sits, just as I know which side of the fence the evangelical bible-believing Christian sits.  I respect people who make a bold statement where they stand.

But the person who uses the bible, even Jesus’ own words (which is one of the most audacious things I have ever encountered), to affirm an obvious sin like homosexuality is something else indeed.  This is an altogether different type of creature, a beast appearing to be sitting on my side of the fence grinning at me. It is a very insidious, dangerous beast that has the potential to lead astray Christians not grounded in the word of God.  Christians whose faith is weak or afraid to stand against false teaching like this crafty angle of attack are in danger.  It could very well explain how denominations like the Episcopal has disintegrated.  It appears many Christians in there were not prepared, their faith too weak to expose the false but feel-good teachings such as homosexuality is not a sin.   Nobody, myself included, want to tell people they are sinning against God and will not enter heaven. It is uncomfortable.  But just as you have to do the uncomfortable thing and spank your disobedient child (I take no pleasure when I have to do that), so too  must we discipline those in our church who embrace false teachings.   I expect non-Christians to do sinful things because they do not know any better, or refuse to know better. I do not expect Christians to do that, and we are told in the bible to reprove Christians who sin to bring them back into the fold.

Jesus will never contradict the Holy Spirit.  This is one of the proofs you can use to expose false teachings.

If what I have written here can be useful to other Christians to defend against these kinds of nefarious attacks, then all the better. [/quote]

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