Thoughts on gays and sin

[Silver]

As a gay man, I thoroughly enjoy engaging in sodomy with other consenting males, but I leave out the nonsensical guilt whereby I feel I must pray for absurd forgiveness.

[vorlon13]

That approach might be endorsed by the christers for wife beating, bank robbery, murder, remarriage following divorce (adultery), arson, coveting, picking up sticks on the sabbath, wearing clothing made of mixed fabrics, idolatry, abortion, allowing a menstruating woman in church, or eating a crab cake, but absolutely goddam NOT for greasy homo butt sex !!!!
NEVER NEVER NEVER !!!!

......or for foul-mouthed atheists!

If you don't like you and/or your brethren getting called out on cherry picking scriptures your recourse is to stop fucking cherry picking scriptures.

[Alex K]

As a gay man, I thoroughly enjoy engaging in sodomy with other consenting males, but I leave out the nonsensical guilt whereby I feel I must pray for absurd forgiveness.

You gay people always act as if you have the monopoly on sodomy. I find that offensive!

[robvalue]

It's asinine, this ass of mine.

[Alex K]

Yeah, in England they were put in prison. It's chilling to think how little time ago such things were happening.

I didn't know that until I read Alan Turings biography. So sad.

[Drich]

I just had a thought about the whole issue of gay rights and Christianity. Maybe we True Christians ™ are getting all worked up about something that has a very simple solution.

Consider, we are all sinners.

Further, we can't help but be sinners. Our best works are as filthy rags. So we may as well not even try.

Salvation is by faith alone. Jesus died on the cross for our sins and always stands ready to forgive. So we can sin all we like and then just pray to our invisible imaginary fr... LORD AND SAVIOR and say "sorry about that" and the slate is continually wiped clean.

Therefore, there's no need for any "ex-gay" ministries or trying to "pray the gay away". Homosexuality is a sin like any other. Sin is inevitable. Sin is something we can do constantly and still attain salvation just with a simple prayer to wipe the slate clean.

The plan for gay Christian then could be:

1. Have lots of hot gay sex.
2. Pray.
3. Have more hot gay sex.
4. Pray.
5. Have even more hot gay sex.
6. Pray.
7. Repeat as much as desired.

No muss. No fuss. No need for self-loathing. No need for trying to change what you are. Just keep praying after you get done with all the intense [Censored for want of being able to post in Area 69] and the passionate [oh damn this needs to be censored] and rubbing your [nope not publishing this either] against his [this censored part goes on for a few sentences] and all that... mmmmmm ...what was I saying again?

Oh yes, I was praying to Lord Jesus to forgive me for calling him an "invisible imaginary friend".

See? It never happened. The slate's been wiped clean.

Praise the sweet name of Jesus!

There is one slight problem with your prescription. Paul in romans 5, 6, 7 kinda answers your prescription directly, and even boils your senerio down to a pretty neat block of text in chapter 6:

So do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us more and more grace? 2 Of course not! Our old sinful life ended. It’s dead. So how can we continue living in sin? 3 Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ Jesus when we were baptized? In our baptism we shared in his death. 4 So when we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and took part in his death. And just as Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father, so we can now live a new life.

[Thumpalumpacus]

There is one slight problem with your prescription. Paul in romans 5, 6, 7 kinda answers your prescription directly, and even boils your senerio down to a pretty neat block of text in chapter 6:

So do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us more and more grace? 2 Of course not! Our old sinful life ended. It’s dead. So how can we continue living in sin? 3 Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ Jesus when we were baptized? In our baptism we shared in his death. 4 So when we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and took part in his death. And just as Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father, so we can now live a new life.

It's a pity that so many Christians never bother with the part about ending their old, sinful life ... you included.

[Alex K]

So do you think we should continue sinning so that God will give us more and more grace? 2 Of course not! Our old sinful life ended. It’s dead. So how can we continue living in sin? 3 Did you forget that all of us became part of Christ Jesus when we were baptized? In our baptism we shared in his death. 4 So when we were baptized, we were buried with Christ and took part in his death. And just as Christ was raised from death by the wonderful power of the Father, so we can now live a new life.

There's a misunderstanding, Drich. No one wants to lead a sinful life and, say, become an investment banker or similar horrors, we're merely talking about a bit of harmless sodomy, and if we're feeling courageous, maybe mixing two kinds of thread every once in a while and eat shellfish (though I'll rather skip that)...

[robvalue]

What about gay sex with shellfish? Or intertwining fabric and dead gay guy to make a sweater? Argh too many rules! I'll just ignore them all I think.

[Alex K]

What about gay sex with shellfish?

You mean like that?