Fuel against the fundies

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I've been to some heated discussions about homosexuality. There are always the very vocal and very tiny minority who will shout their unconsidered opinion and walk off. In these discussions the consensus of those that remained was always the opposite.

I agree, and that's the trick, not to walk away.

@Dotard- I believe the Bible is the inspired living word of God, not inerrant. I feel it was originally meant for everyone and still could be. At it's time I don't feel it was misinterpreted. It is just a book, and it's written by men, many years ago. God didn't write it or translate it, he inspired it. 1000 years from now there will be a different common language and they'll have different deffinitions for words than we use today and probably more of them. It takes every generation trying their best to selflessly pass on those beliefs as acurately as possible for it to remain pure. History since then and now is littered with far too much hate, bigotry and self-serving for me to even consider the Bible as inerrant. That doesn't mean with God's help I don't see any value in those words. Definitions change and as society changes and adds new facets to itself new definitions are necessary. I'm sure they didn't have a name for electricity back then either. If you saw electricity in an old book before electricity in a different language then you'd raise a question as to the translation as well. Someone at that point is assuming some word meant the modern interpretaion of it. I try and read the Bible from an anacronistic, selfless perspective as much as possible. If you don't believe the bible could be real.. then don't read it no one's asking you to. You're making it seem like God puts words in our head or we all hear voices from God. I can't speak for ancient translators, but God doesn't speak to me like that.