Just by referencing Scripture? I think not.
I’m not the one looking for a fight. And you aren’t making a point, but are falling to worldly Alinskyite accusations, with all due respect.
Just by interpreting scripture in a way that is impossible when scripture is compared to scripture. That’s all.
Yes you did pick a fight. I don’t know what Alinsky has to do with scripture; let’s talk about scripture, okay? It makes it a lot simpler.
Just please calm down.
Many people have ideas of God that didn’t even so much come from the bible, as they came from the attitudes of the humans that in turn preached about God to them. This is a very easy trap to fall into.
God insists on one route: TEACHING. Even the word Torah means teaching. There’s no back of the book to turn to and glibly rattle off the answers, and voila you get a 100% grade.
Assuming we are willing (and some people are not) — we’re sinners but we’re being taught righteousness. And it is not complete till we get to heaven. All this is 100% backed up by scripture.
Now why did homosexual relations get singled out for such a bad rap, if they like other sex sins could be so readily repented? As yours truly and many others are vigorously asserting, with scriptural backup as well?
Well I posit there is a very easy answer. Until modern days, people took pride in their families. It was instinctual. Not to be able to father or mother a child was considered shameful, even on a worldly level. Hence homosexuality as willful or habitual act was known as a wrong not just from a standpoint of holiness, but even from a standpoint of worldly pride. If you wanted a stronger example of something everybody would agree was very bad, there probably wasn’t one.
Our modern “zero population growth” liberals have thrown a monkey wrench into that presumption. This is an attitude that the bible does not assume. And it isn’t very long after such an attitude is taken, that one would reason from it that all manner of sexual perversions are just wonderful. Don’t believe it? I do. I had an old science book by the atheist George Gamow that has exactly this kind of statement. Published in the 1950s.