RE: Is it possible to be a gay Christian?
July 27, 2014 at 10:03 pm
(This post was last modified: July 27, 2014 at 10:07 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(July 27, 2014 at 4:45 pm)alpha male Wrote:Quote:From the moment everyone follows different verses and have different interpretations, that's not a religion any more, it's several religionsSo what? If God wants some ambiguity to get us thinking about it, that's his business. You atheists criticize us for being mindless sheep in one breath, then note that we think about things and come to different conclusions in the next.
I find it odd that the words of a Perfect Communicator should sow such confusion and discord. When even his own self-proclaimed followers take up arms to defend their conception of the Prince of Peace with acts of violence, it seems to me that the message has been made uselessly vague, and thereby counterproductive.
(July 27, 2014 at 7:18 pm)Purplundy Wrote:(July 27, 2014 at 6:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You don't feel that a book full of rules, with stories full of people either following or ignoring those rules- expressing the consequences thereof - is a rule book, or meant to be "followed" as-such?If the Bible was simply about telling people what to do, then it wouldn't try to explain who God is or what God does.
The Bible does not explain who God is, hence the confusion and occasional enmity amongst his self-proclaimed followers. The are several different conceptions of God even amongst self-professed Christians.