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Hear Rob Bell support same-sex marriage, say Evangelicals need to 'repent'
Rob Bell And The Progressive Emergent Church Embrace Sodomite Marriage

1 posted on 07/17/2017 5:57:12 PM PDT by Gamecock
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I partially agree with him - you can read it literately in order to get to the correct literalness - context is everything.

I've had folks tell me it's a sin to smoke and/or not eat right because the Bible tells us the body is our temple - they totally ignore that that phrase is about sexual impurity and has nothing to do with step aerobics and salads.

27 posted on 07/18/2017 3:33:47 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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I’ll go with Franklin Graham on this one....

“... prompting evangelist Franklin Graham, among many others, to brand him a heretic...”


28 posted on 07/18/2017 6:01:03 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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Wow....the dude has lost it.


29 posted on 07/18/2017 6:41:47 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Why doesn’t Bell just come out and admit he’s an atheist?


30 posted on 07/18/2017 7:51:46 AM PDT by dragonblustar (I love reading Trump tweets in the morning.)
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“This is why lots of people want nothing to do with the Christian faith. They see it as an endless list of absurdities and inconsistencies and they say, ‘Why would I ever want to be part of that?’ ”


Well naturally they do, what did he suppose?


31 posted on 07/18/2017 8:42:45 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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Properly understood, Bell argued, the Bible was written “to unite, not to be weaponized to further your side over and against another’s.”

If only more people tried that approach.


32 posted on 07/18/2017 8:45:53 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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In my opinion, it’s very easy to stray from a straight up point in the bible by being a slave to a method of understanding culture, history, grammar, life of the writer, etc.

Those things are important but not as important as simple reading comprehension.

The old adage is helpful: “When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense;”


35 posted on 07/18/2017 2:51:40 PM PDT by xzins ( Support the Freepathon! Every donation is important.)
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