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So Paul is to be believed and followed when you agree with him, but ignored when you don't. But I see you take it one step further. Jesus is to be followed when he agrees with you, but to be ignored when he doesn't.

Jesus was not silent that marriage is to be between a man an a woman. See Matthew 19:4-6 and Mark 10:6-12.

Finally, I do not question your salvation. I do not have enough information to form an opinion one way or the other. I can, however, safely conclude that you have been the victim of poor teaching.

We need to use our reason in considering what Paul said. Or more accurately, in considering what we have in the NT attributed to Paul (five of the twelve letters attributed to Paul, the "pastoral letters," were evidently written by later writers in his name). That is, my criteria for deciding what we should follow that Paul wrote is by no means arbitrary. Likewise, what Jesus said. (Again: Jesus prohibits divorce, but modern Protestants no longer obey this. All of us pick and choose, according to reason and tradition, our collective experience.)

I am glad that you do not question my salvation. In any event, I will trust God for my salvation, knowing that I cannot achieve it through my own works or knowledge—salvation is by the grace of God through the sacrifice of Jesus upon the cross.

Well, enough of this. I should stay away from this subject on this board.