RE: Is it possible to be a gay Christian?
July 27, 2014 at 8:14 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2014 at 8:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 27, 2014 at 7:18 pm)Purplundy Wrote: If the Bible was simply about telling people what to do, then it wouldn't try to explain who God is or what God does.I expect that it would spend alot of time on both of those things, especially with regards to "who" he is when he lays down some of that "what" on rule-breakers
Quote:And even at that, the Bible as a rule book would just be the Torah—all written down by one person or group at one point in time, and lacking contradiction.We're halfway there already, imagining that the gospel writers were a single person - rather than a single final editor. Or imagining that book is already free of contradiction (when they've only half finished the editing job). You think that the torah sprung up as-is, written by "one person or group at one point in time"? You got somethin 'ginst rulebooks?
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