(April 6, 2018 at 3:44 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Both Jesus and Paul were predicting imminent heaven on earth in the form of socialist equality. Jesus preached that to be part of that, one should give everything away and begin to act like that kingdom where already there. You have to twist pretty hard to avoid believing Jesus was wrong about the timing, if nothing else. But how you can reconcile the Gospels with capitalism is beyond me. As I understand it, the line is Jesus was preaching what you had to have done to survive the kingdom of God if he didn't die for their sins. Oddly, he failed to mention that last bit. Nor did he say some of you standing here won't taste death before the coming of the kingdom of God, unless I'm crucified in which case the kingdom of God will just mean that believers will be resurrected. He said the former but not the later.
When Paul said, better to marry than burn it was not an endorcement. If you can read The Gospels and Paul's letters and argue heterosexual marriage is the bed rock of Christian society, you have already done so much rationalizing that a little more here and there is hardly surprising.
Here's a fine example of misinterpretation of the scriptures what denomination do you belong to. You accuse Christians of misrepresenting god's word and to date you haven't gotten any of of right.
GC
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.