why is it that everytime there is a thread that might possibly have anything to do with homosexuality you people get so virulent? what happened to love your neighbor as yourself? what happened to forgiveness? why is it that the church gets all up in arms about the gays but refuses to even mention much less seek to prevent the molestation of its daughters? more christian women are molested as children than any other group i've met. and not to mention the boys. yes boys. i've known so many guys whose fathers raped them... it's disgusting. yet the church never mentions it. why? it's too busy with the sliver in its neighbor's eye.
sin it may or may not be. but if it is, sin is sin and none is greater than any other. save perhaps for pride. how dare you.
why don't you read your bible once or twice. read about him whom you claim to follow. read what he would say of your vile hypocrisy. read how he would fling over your tables. read of how he feels you are defiling his church.
for the wages of sin is death, but the FREE gift of god is eternal life through his son.
for ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god.
for by GRACE you have been saved, though faith and that NOT OF YOURSELVES; it is the GIFT of god. not of works lest any should boast.
you are not saved because you go out and scream damnation upon others, but because you deserve the VERY SAME FATE and yet god forgave you. not because he thought you better than them, but because he knew you needed to grow. so stop drinking milk and eat the meat of his love and knowledge. become grown and faithful and stop condemning. eat with the tax collectors and converse with the prostitutes. they might show you something you couldn't understand in your meager experience.
paul and his rules and his sheltering is not your leader. christ and his compassion is. follow your king and not his general.
you repent. you change. end your hate.
This message has been edited by brennakimi, 03-20-2005 03:54 AM
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