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To: Sunsong
There are many things that are considered *abominations* in the Old Testament. Why do you only focus on one?

And there are multiple words translated "abomination" that have different meanings and varying degrees to which something is deemed "detestable". Why do you imply that they are all equal?

194 posted on 05/24/2006 9:59:27 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: Sunsong
There are many things that are considered *abominations* in the Old Testament. Why do you only focus on one?

Jesus said that it is what goes out of a man that defiles him, not what goes in..

The abomination of homosexuality was one of the abominations that was so egregious that it carried the death penalty. St. Paul said in the NT that it was "one of the sins worthy of death, not only for those that do it, but those that consent to it.. man are the liberals in trouble!

"For this cause God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature.

And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.

And as they liked not to have God in their knowledge, God delivered them up to a reprobate sense, to do those things which are not convenient;

Being filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers,

Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy.

Who, having known the justice of God, did not understand that they who do such things, are worthy of death; and not only they that do them, but they also that consent to them that do them."

Christian compassion and civil law doesn't call for that now, but people who engage in this conduct should worry about the death sentence to their souls if they don't repent.

215 posted on 05/24/2006 10:30:13 AM PDT by FJ290
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To: VRWCmember
And there are multiple words translated "abomination" that have different meanings and varying degrees to which something is deemed "detestable". Why do you imply that they are all equal?

And so are you claiming that homosexuality is the worst of all *abominations* in the Bible? And are you claiming that there is some kind of hierarchy of sins? Are some considered by you to be no big deal and others, like homosexuality - to be so bad that there is a special commandment agsint them, for instance?

221 posted on 05/24/2006 10:35:22 AM PDT by Sunsong
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