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

[Drich]

What makes you think that you are a repentant sinner when you refuse to adhere to the laws God laid down in the Old Testament?

Because "Repentance is commanded, described, modeled and verified in the following passagesLuke 3:8-14; Acts 3:19 Acts 26:20 Acts 2:36-38; 3:19; 11:18; 17:30; 20:21; 26:20, John 6:44 Acts 5:31 2 Peter 3:9 Romans 2:4 Matthew 3:8 2 Corinthians 5:17; Galatians 5:19-23; James 2:14-26.) I have heeded the commandment, read what was written followed what was described and have found the verification that was promised.

If you are called at all, you will be called least, because you do not adhere to his laws.

Then so be it. I am but a humble servent and will go/do what i have been instructed to do.

But, then Jesus will turn around and reward you by making you greatest, just because? Makes the OT Law sound so pointless that you could only measure it with negative integers.

Again in Christ we have righteousness apart from the Law. That means the 'Law' in no way shape or form is the measure being used to judge us.

You assume much about how many times I have read the Bible.

Then you are famliar with Mat 13:10-17 and it's corresponding verse in Isaiah? What do you thin that means, and how does it apply to you?

I understand that you feel like you must, but what you seem to not understand is that such a contradictory mishmash can never be reconciled into a single understanding, hence why there are 40,000 denominations of Christianity.

There are X amount of denominations of Christianity, because if their were only one it would absolutly be completely corrupt, or have you forgotten about the Church of the Dark ages?

If this is true, then why bother putting in anything more than the barest minimum of effort towards achieving salvation? It sounds, yet again, as if you're trying to twist everything around so that you can believe you'll be saved.

Because their is no such thing and a minimum of salvation. We have been commanded to Love our lord God with all of our being;Heart, Mind, Spirit and Strength. A love like this has no minimums.

And yet, you think you're special.

Not special, obediant. I did as I was told, and found what i was looking for.

Who says? You?

Those who do not know History are doomed to repeat it failures.

One of the reasons the bible was translated into a dead language was to take the power of the message out of a common man's ablity to comperhend it and place all power and authority of god onto a group of men. One of the claim these men made were of the absolute infalliablity of the bible, then these men took (and had all who followed them take to worshiping the printed page as a god/idol.)

That would make the very concept of a Bible redundant. Those who have the understanding to make sense of it already know what they need to know. Those who do not have that understanding would find the Bible incomprehensible. I think that a book should exist to provide understanding. If I must have that understanding before I can make any sense of the book, the book is useless.

Actually it would mean that no one would be able to pick it up and read it like a text book and expect to get it's full intended meaning. however it what was written would be enough to have a sincere person Ask, Seek, and Knock for God's truth and Revelation offered by the Holy Spirit. From that point IF that person were to respond according to how God had called them (Humbly and repenting of their sins He points out) The Holy Spirit would teach them how to read and comperhend the bible with little to no instruction at all..

If that's true, then God's love for mankind is a fraud, because if there is one absolutely correct way to interpret God's word, most people are doomed to never get it, if anyone is at all.

We've discussed this at length many times. God does not love everyone equally. There are some The bible says He hates. That said None of us were born to 'get the bible.' We only 'Get it' If we humble ourselves and A/S/K for the gift of the holy Spirit.