RE: Has anyone ever found a way to reconsile being Gay/Bi/Lesbien and being a Christian?
February 17, 2013 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: February 17, 2013 at 2:21 pm by Ryantology.)
(February 17, 2013 at 2:06 pm)Drich 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?
No. You are qualified to tell me what a passage said in the Bible. You are not qualified to tell me that your interpretation of that passage is superior to mine.
Quote: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.
I've already explained what I think it means, several times in this thread and others, and whether it's good or bad is not relevant to me.
What I want you to do is to show me why you believe that, in spite of what Jesus said in that passage, Christians can pick and choose which parts of Old Testament law they want to follow, and which ones they can ignore. I want you to show me why, when Jesus warns that adhering to the law makes a difference in how one will be held up in the afterlife, that he doesn't actually mean anything of the sort.
If you try to tell me that my interpretation is wrong because other parts of the Bible contradict it, you're barking up the wrong tree, because the Bible is full of contradictions. Matthew 5 ends with a big one: Jesus tells people to love your enemies, and turn the other cheek to them, finishing with “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect."
Of course, one need only open a random page in the Old Testament to see that the 'perfect' heavenly father does not, ever, turn the other cheek or love his enemies. He annihilates them, drowns them, has their babies slaughtered en masse, makes rape slaves out of their women. Jesus tells people to be pacifists in one breath, then he tells them to aspire to be bloodthirsty psychopaths in the next.
