“The correct way is to form your truths based on Scripture” … Hmmm … It seems to me that this is exactly what I am currently doing in this conversation – and that this is indeed exactly what I have been doing from its very beginning. In truth, I have been the one herein who […]
“If you eliminate the Old Testament and the majority of the New Testament, you are propagating a false religion” And I would say to you that this ABSOLUTELY NOT the case at all! Indeed, if you start with the teachings of Christ, and accept all the other verses of the Bible that resonate therewith (while […]
“Jesus is not from this world. He is from above” … This might indeed be the case, of course, though it would be both wise & respectful for us to see what the Bible itself has to say on the matter, yes? *First of all, Jesus himself repeatedly & loudly denied any and all […]
“Any attack on the Bible is a false religion.” Well, first of all, I am not attacking the Bible, my Friend. To the contrary, I am only “attacking” your extremely limited interpretation and highly confining opinions thereof, and as such the only thing I am actually “attacking” is your attack on the Bible! […]
“We simply embrace God’s unchanging standard of morality and dare to differ with those who would assault it, change it, or ignore it.” How ironic of you to proclaim to follow Jesus Christ then, my Friend, when “daring to differ” is exactly what he did with the “unchanging standard of morality” found in the […]
“Human beings are frail, fallen, and limited in knowledge. Rather than trust our own wisdom, we ought to seek truth from a time-tested source” … Actually, my Friend, the Bible itself says otherwise – telling us all quite definitively that, though we are indeed to use the Scriptures as one of our primary guides in […]
“The Bible can be trusted” … Yes it can, my Friend (at least to the degree that its interpretations harmonize with current biblical scholarship, and at least to the degree that those interpretations bear Good Fruit when tested) … So Lucy, since you feel it can be trusted, why aren’t you trusting it by heeding […]
“The Christian hope for homosexuals is not heterosexuality, but ‘holiness’.” Actually, my dear – at least according to Jesus Christ, neither of these is the true Christian hope for homosexuals. No, my dear Friend, the actual hope for homosexuals is for Christians to drop their condemnatory, Paulinist, pro-Old Testament dogma and return to dealing […]
“We are not trying to make gays straight, but rather are trying to take them straight to Jesus, just as we would anyone else ensnared by sin.” (sigh) … You simply refuse to get it, my Friend. By you judging homosexuals to be mortal sinners, you are not only essentially creating Scripture that does […]
And then thereafter you go on to quote Titus 2:11-14, which is actually a very interesting passage; bearing a bit of analysis from Jesus’ point of view … Let’s listen to the Holy Spirit as it “[comments]” upon this passage for us … “For the Grace of God has appeared [Jesus Christ, a perfect […]
“Bible-believing Christians are concerned for fellow human beings who struggle with homosexual desires.” Well Lucy, if this truly were the case, then you would not be publicly condemning homosexuals as sinners when – as you yourself have already admitted – the Bible itself does not condemn them. Your arrogance in this regard is misinformed, […]
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