RE: Has anyone ever found a way to reconsile being Gay/Bi/Lesbien and being a Christian?
February 17, 2013 at 2:06 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2013 at 2:08 pm by Drich.)
(February 17, 2013 at 12:13 pm)Ryantology Wrote:So in your world, experience and in depth study, and even in some cases translation of certain passages from the orginal texts is consider fraudulent behavior?(February 17, 2013 at 11:22 am)Drich Wrote: 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?
If a history teacher told me that his interpretation of history is more accurate than mine because he has read a certain book on the subject more times than I have, I would immediately dismiss him as the fraud he was.
Ok, let test your claim. Why not let us look at the passage that has inspired this red herring expedition and you take all of your 'reading ability' and explain what you think the passage in mat 5 means, and why you think that is a good or bad thing. Let see if a blind reading (one that ignores orginal text, the full context of the, passage, and what the rest of the bible has to say) can actually reflect what the bible says as a whole.
(February 17, 2013 at 11:20 am)Question Mark Wrote: If it were proven that any religion were correct, then acceptance of the notion that any form of sex is "impure" might be acceptable. Until such a time as this is proven, empirical evidence as to the legitimate dangers of any action. Any law posited by a god or goddess without given explanation is arbitrary, and morality and laws should not simply be arbitrary, it's unjust. There is no strong secular reason for why any of the LGBT community should be oppressed in favour of heterosexuality.
I do not care what the lgbt community does or why. So long as they do not misrepresent scripture as you did earlier.
