(July 8, 2015 at 5:03 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(July 8, 2015 at 4:47 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Try to focus very carefully on the following question:
Tell me, nope, which of these things - which produced great suffering - would automatically endanger the immortal soul of one caught up in it?
Randy, the immortal soul is not the only thing worth considering. Why try to pull focus to this one particular issue when, in every other context, you'd most likely understand the value of temporal suffering?
Esq-
As much as you seem to ignore it, I am right from time to time in this forum. This is one of those times.
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So, the Holocaust, the Black Plague, the Great Famine in Ireland, the Armenian Genocide and any number of horrible events did not anger your god enough to return to earth. Yet the fact that two men can legally marry is the tipping point that makes him want to destroy a large portion of humankind?
It is obvious that those events did NOT anger God enough to "return to earth". Does it follow that they did not anger God at all?
And to the point, nope writes, "the fact that two men can legally marry is the tipping point that makes him want to destroy a large portion of humankind?"
Tipping point? Is nope highlighting that gay "marriage" (technically, it's civil union since marriage is a sacrament between a man and a woman, but whatever) is the point which "tips the balance of the scale"? If so, what else is on that scale to which gay marriage was added?
Abortion? Human trafficking? Pornography (of all kinds)? We could create a huge list of things that are not pleasing to a holy God.