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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Humans have the right to sin I suppose, since without God they can do no other, but they certainly haven't the right to demand approval for their sin from others, and especially not from Christ or His followers.

I agree that humans have the right to sin but not to *demand* that others approve of their sins. I would also say that those who believe in sins and disapprove of sinfullness do not have the right to demand that sinners change - unless the sinner is deliberately harming others and breaking the law.

116 posted on 05/23/2006 11:33:06 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: Sunsong
I would also say that those who believe in sins and disapprove of sinfullness do not have the right to demand that sinners change - unless the sinner is deliberately harming others and breaking the law.

1. Depends on how you define demand. A call to repentance, which is the God given role of the church, would be a demand, in your view?

2. What about public nudity? Sex in public restrooms? For that matter, sex in public? Is anyone hurt by that? How? How about polygamy? Prostitution? Bestiality? Etc.

I would argue that the whole of society is harmed by homosexuality. And when you place homosexuality into a protected class status such as race, you are using the power of government to force immoral attitudes on everyone. It is oppressive to the mission of the church.

149 posted on 05/24/2006 7:45:22 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Sunsong
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

415 posted on 05/28/2006 6:15:35 PM PDT by mississippi red-neck (You will never win the war on terrorism by fighting it in Iraq and funding it in the West Bank.)
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