I'm on my way out too and don't know if I will be back online this evening or not. Will catch up later with you if need be..but wanted to address this one issue with you before signing off.
When you say that you don't believe the Bible to be 100% accurate as God's word, but turn around and say I like these passages and a few others, that's a classic case of having your cake and eating it too, IMO. I can only pray one day that you will accept all of Scripture and stop attacking it as being inaccurate. I have a feeling that won't happen as long as you continue to be homosexual. I have found that apologists for the homosexual community often attack Scripture as being inaccurate. I suppose it's a self defense mechanism because once you admit that Sacred Scripture is COMPLETELY accurate, you can't justify being an active homosexual.
How do you know when your in a Gay Chruch?
ONLY HALF THE CONGREGATION IS KNEELING!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
I feel a bit like I'm talking to a wall(g). Perhaps when I said this it wasn't as clear to you as it seemed to me?:
Perhaps you can understand that we come from such wildly divergent places in our belief systems that it is a challenge to find things that we can agree on and that I am trying to use your language even though it is not mine.
I am bending over backwards here to try and talk to you in your own language. I am not a Christian. I do not believe what you believe. I don't know how many different times and ways I need to say that?! It is not in the least unusual to like parts of a book and not the whole book. It is not in the least unusual to find a particular passage in a book beautiful and other parts off the mark.
I do not understand why it is so difficult for you to understand that we do not share the same beliefs? I do not believe that God is part hate. It makes no sense to me. I believe that God is Love. I have said that. It seems to me that you believe that God is sometimes Love and sometimes hate. That doesn't make sense to me.
This interview with God is more in line with my beliefs than the hellfire stuff.
But it *does* say in the Bible that God is Love. Jesus did say that the two greatest commandments are to love God and love your neighbor as yourself. So my question is why all the obsession with homosexuals? Why the hatred?
Everyone sins, by your belief system! Everyone! Lots of people flaunt their sins. Not all homosexuals are activists. Surely that is obvious to you. What is the reason for the focus on such a tiny part of the population?
There is a quote from Mark Twain that applies:
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
I am not motivated by fear. It doesn't work with me to try and scare me into believing something. I prefer to do things because I want to because I choose to. I want to become a better and better person because I love God - not because I fear Him. I want to love more and forgive more because that is who I want to be - not because I might get a reward.
I hope that you can open your mind enough to realize that you and I are NOT going to agree - but maybe, possibly, we can understand each other.