Posted on 09/07/2010 9:53:12 PM PDT by SeanG200
“…take gold as an example, it has inherent in its nature intrinsic qualities that make it expensive: good conductor of electricity, rare, never tarnishes, and the like. The male and female have the potential to become a single biological organism, or single organic unit, or principle. Two essentially becoming one. The male and female, then, have inherent to their nature intrinsic qualities that two mated males or two mated females never actualize in their courtship… nor can they ever. The potential stays just that, potential, never being realized…” (Q&A: PapaG Style)
This is what God (Jesus) was accessing… the created order and its inherent qualities that define moral categories via Natural Law....
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Jesus warned about it many times in the Gospels. Yeah right he never spoke about the practice of perversion.
The APA vote to normalize homosexuality was driven by politics, not science.
Exactly. When is science voted on 56% to 42%? Maybe Al Gore's science but not replicable science. Socarides caught them in the act and no one listened. Changing paraphilic disorder to normal is an APA social justice specialty.
Homosexuality is alleged to be pretty common in monastaries, nunnerys, and in seminaries. Lots of sexual events in the bible school I attended. Such is life, our instinct to copulate is very strong.
The things you speak of are covered in the Genesis account.
copulation as an act in itself may be a strong force-like you suggest. But I dare say the rumors you speak of are more related to the fall -to the work of the serpent that wholly
seduced Eve in the Garden than it is a thing to celebrate.
23Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion.
24Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
The Lord seems pretty clear on where He stands regarding homosexuality.
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Good point Stony. In fact, Ravi Zacharias makes the point that while we tend to use Romans 1 as a mark to judge others with, it is a great description of our hearts as well.
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I think it's a better practice to cite New Testament verses condemning homosexuality. When you quote the OT the homos say "doesn't the old testament also say you can't eat shell fish? doesn't it also say you should stone children for refusing to obey their parents?, doesn't say to stone a woman for adultery?" and it changes the subject. Yes, you can explain those things but most people can't follow it and you lose the argument. Citing New Testament verses avoids that whole argument. At least that's the way I see it.
I don’t believe in the literal fall.
Each individual has choices all day long, every day, whether to fall or not to fall.
And there is also the question of “How did I get here and why am I in this place in the first place”? which every sane person should consider deeply.
The next question to consider deeply is “where am I going next, and how will my actions and choices determine my destination?”
That’s actual human life, not to follow urges blindly like animals.
The wonder of life is the freedom to choose.I do believe in
the literal fall-the Genesis account.I have found through testing the written word most often whenever I thought something sounded wrong-the error was in my belief. i.e. for years I thought the Tower of Babel story was mere myth. Then I did discover that,in American history many believed the Tower of Babel mere myth-but modern archeology has documented the ruins of an ancient tower found where the Tower ought to have
been ,and the modern study of language documents that this ruin most likely was the Tower of Babel.I believe n Christ-and much of the rest of what is written i.e.the doctrine of
free will.
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