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And Paul can't be dismissed as an ignorant fisherman or something of the sort from flyover country. He was arguably the most learned Rabbi in Jerusalem before his conversion on the road to Damascus.
The profligate liberal “church” has no problem going along with homosexuality because their own sexual sins are just as bad.
There is nothing new under the sun. Oh, we have cool gadgets, toys, and machinery. But there is truly nothing new.
I wonder if any of the apostles would even respond to these sleaze bags as in so doing it gives an impression of them having some credibility, and they have none.
The disparagements of traditional marriage are the small end of the wedge for prying religious freedom from our Constitution. If applied, the Bill of Rights would furnish the key for resolving the marriage issue by sustaining its religious essence.
For tens of millions of Jewish, Christian and Muslim believers classical scholarship concludes homosexual relationships separate them from God. The Old Testament, holy to “People of the Book”, speaks of the character, identity, and purpose of God in a manner, which continuously addresses homosexuality. God is identified as masculine and all humans as feminine in relation to Him. After creating all things, He created the single institution of heterosexual marriage to point to the love relationship He desires with humanity. For them any subsequent reasoning from scriptures must derive from that basic understanding.
Focusing on first principles regarding marriage renders irrelevant contrary moral exhibitionist arguments of fairness and tolerance, and the pecuniary arguments regarding taxes and social welfare. For the United States, all could be managed by the elegant expressions, and endless tomes legislators luxuriate in creating on issues from plastic bags to healthcare. People could then be free to do whatever in relation to business practice, and personal belief, but there seems to be little chance of that happening.
Allowing a popular civil trend to erase foundational Constitutional principle injects a crippling abscess into spiritual faith. Immediately these people reside outside boundaries guaranteeing freedom of religion to become guilty of cultural prejudice, and next confront logics defining their beliefs as criminal.
Same sex marriage tears the spinal cord out of the desert religions. What remains is a gooey substitute for spiritual faith which can be layered onto any secular philosophy. People will either buy into this new normal or be unable to benefit from this redefinition of the First Amendment.
What we know is that man enters the world corrupt..loving self and sin ..
Having"laws" making sin an illegal act ...do not stop the sin.. the sin continues because man loves his sin..
The answer to sin is not "laws" but grace ..only the gospel can change the hearts of men..
There is nothing new under the sun.
So these people are saying that an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent God didn't know about them, either?
Why should we worship such a God, if He didn't know what he was about? Oh, wait. That's kind of the point, isn't it>
Nero, whom was the emperor who martyred Paul, was homosexual and “married” at least two homosexuals (contemporaenously), one who was a “husband” and one who was a “wife.” He had the “wife” castrated to better play the part. So Paul was well aware of so-called “gay marriage.” Even the Romans thought it was demented, like Nero himself.