Has anyone ever found a way to reconsile being Gay/Bi/Lesbien and being a Christian?

[Drich]

Ryan was trying to claim that everyone who reads the bible do so on equal footing. If I am not answering the question you think your asking the rephrase.

Because, this is true. You don't have to believe something is true to get some kind of magical understanding of words on a page which is superior to anyone else's. You've probably read the bible more thoroughly than I have, but I can approach it with a critical eye. You are not free to interpret it without preconceptions, and you have to dredge up a dozen unrelated passages so that you can 'clarify' the meaning of a direct and unambiguous statement. How can that be anything but self-serving prestidigitation, to make it sound as though your brand of worship is acceptable? It seems to me that it is much less than Christ expects out of you, but that's between you and your imaginary friend.

The Bible itself has no built-in interpretation guide, so I have no reason whatsoever to accept that you are interpreting this accurately, especially when directly interpreting it makes your devotion to your god look incomplete and subject to your convenience (not to mention, modern secular morals).

Just like a history student can read a given history book for the first time alone side the teacher who has been teaching out of that book for twenty years, and possibly get everything on page.. It is extremely unlikely. If what you suggest were common place then why do we need history teachers anyway? Why not just have students read their history books like you claim to be able to read the bible and save our collective communities billions of dollars a year? Oh that's right because without having someone, with what you identified as a "preconception" the students would all most likely trivialize the whole subject, get lost in what they think they already know and quit before they have a working understanding of the subject.

Sound familiar yet?