Assuming that includes homosexuality, given that believers believe God created man in his own image, if you became convinced as a scientific fact that some people are wired from birth to be gay, would that influence your theological assumption that God considers such behavior an abomination?
I wouldn't get sucked into debating what God thinks is abominable.
God isn't going to weigh in on this definitively, so we're all just guessing.
The real issue is whether the United States government is to be run according to the doctrine of any particular religious sect or another.
The Founders, who learned their history lessons from educated teachers, learned that the admixture of religion and politics doesn't really advance either one, and we wind up with the worst of both.
No. And you're never going to find such proof. God knows the Left has tried.
Dear Torie,
"Assuming that includes homosexuality, given that believers believe God created man in his own image, if you became convinced as a scientific fact that some people are wired from birth to be gay, would that influence your theological assumption that God considers such behavior an abomination?"
"Wired from birth" isn't really something that a scientist would ever claim about any set of complex behaviors.
However, there are many complex behaviors that scientists believe have a genetic component. There is every indication that there are genetic components for alcoholism, other forms of addiction, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, just to name a few. There is some thought that various personality disorders, including some that tend to express themselves in violence and rage, may have genetic components.
I'm not sure that we want to celebrate or normalize any of these things because we might find that they are, to some degree, inherent in the genes of some individuals.
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