Posted on 12/19/2001 8:58:59 AM PST by medlarebil
Sy Rogers (whom I've met in person and heard give awesome testimony) has a lot of healing words to say to people who are living or have gone through sexual identity problems. He says that almost everyone he's talked to that's gone through the surgery or through a same-gender marriage regrets it, and publically. He was at the first same-sex wedding in Hawaii (he was one of the best men), and he says that couple has since regretted it and talked to him about their mistake and at least one of them has chosen to turn to Christ.
Anyway, here's his web site for those seeking more on the topic:
Sy Rogers
http://www.syrogers.com/aboutsy.html
This is unreasonable. G-d can do all things, but by doing some things He limits Himself from doing others. Once He decided to create a universe of matter and energy, He limited Himself from having a universe of pure energy. It's like the old question about G-d creating the rock so heavy He can't lift it. G-d is real, not an invention. It doesn't reduce His omnipotence to suggest that, by exercising His omnipotence He limits Himself.
You can present the possibility that an omnipotent, omniscient being can have created creation in such a way that Satan could have been everything else G-d wanted him to be but not have the opportunity to sin. But until you become omnipotent and omniscient yourself, you can't suggest the solution so you don't really know if there is one.
G-d had a reason for creating creation the way He did. We do not know that reason. Therefore, we can accuse Him of not trying hard enough to make it impossible for Satan or man to sin, but we can't really know it was possible.
As to posting verses from the Gospel, a few verses won't do. The whole Gospel shows that G-d takes responsibility for what He has done. G-d put Adam in a position of test, knowing full well that Adam would fail. G-d was, in a sense, responsible for Adam's failure. That's why G-d took the initiative to repair the damage Himself. The Gospel, and many passages in the New Testament, make it clear that Jesus was not 'Plan B.' G-d knew from before the foundation of the world that He would one day face the cross.
Shalom.
We recognize mental illness because we have so many examples of how the brain is supposed to work and how healthy people respond to the world. Since we know that most people are not schizophrenic, we can call schizophrenia a mental illness. Then we can attempt to cure it. The success of some cures shows that we were right in classifying it as a disease. The lack of success shows how complex a disease it is and how far we still have to go in understanding mental illness.
The success rate for 'curing' homosexuality is at least as good as the success rate for curing schizophrenia. Just some food for thought, there.
Shalom.
You are, apparently, a bigophobe. I ask the moderator to pull your hateful thread. There is no room on earth for a person like you who would post such a hateful and tactless suggestion. I f--t in your general direction. Everyone ignore this person as someone who just doesn't see the reality that Rednecks and Bigots are the way G-d made them. Emmylou is intolerant and should be banned from the board.
Shalom.
Homosexuality is easy. 'Thou shalt not commit adultery.' Transsexuality may have no bearing if sexual activity is not involved.
Shalom.
You'd have to postulate the something before I can postulate the method.
In the case of G-d's creation, we broke it by sinning.
Shalom.
I disagree. Nothing that is done to your outside alters who you are. It is what comes from your heart that alters who you are.
Nose jobs, boob jobs, and sex change operations may all be signs of a heart that needs healing, but none will alter who you are.
Shalom.
At the moment I am the unofficial spokesbigot. We haven't actually had the first meeting to elect the officers and adopt the bylaws. Since the first bylaw is that non-members can't come to the meeting (since bigots and rednecks don't like outsiders) and the second bylaw is that you have to be voted a member at a meeting we're in a bit of a quandry as to how to proceed. But we'll come up with a solution. One favored solution is to get so drunk that we can't remember the bylaws and then hold the first meeting but we can't agree on whether to serve Bud or Miller Lite.
Anyway, I'll let you know how it progresses.
I have already asked the moderator to ban Emmylou from the planet for her anti-Bigot post.
Shalom.
Considering the topic you could have chosen a better verb. But the answer to your question is both no and no, depending on whether you chose the verb carefully or not. Judas was prophesied. Jesus did exactly what He was supposed to do.
Shalom.
As John is a man, and not a god, I will still doubt that gender identity is a problem. Actually, I recognize it as a problem. I think the solution is spiritual healing, not surgery.
Shalom.
Even a dead watch is right twice a day, unless it is a military watch in which case it is right once a day.
Shalom.
By the way, I notice that the supporters of sex-change surgery have not bothered to bring up the people who are having their bodies surgically altered to look like animals. I saw a man on TV once who had his face altered to look like a great cat. He had claws where fingernails should be. The TV show treated this as perfectly normal and discussed what his employer had to do to keep him from scaring the customers.
We call this the slippery slope. If a woman can be born in a man's body, why can't a puma or, as I believe one man did, an iguana (no pictures for that one)? Once you get to the bottom of the slope you realize the absurdity of the whole thing. Unfortunately, there often is no way back up.
Shalom.
I didn't realize when I posted to you earlier that you didn't know that people do this.
You probably thought you were being ridiculous. I'm sorry to point out that you were being perfectly rational.
The other inmates in this funny farm we're becoming have declared it so.
Shalom.
I am Cindy Crawford's bathroom mirror.
Really I am. It's not my fault I was born into a nerd's body.
Shalom.
Shalom.
But you can't expect gay males and gay females and straight FTM transgender and straight MTF transgender and gay FTM transgender and gay MTF transgender to all share the same bathroom, do you? Think of the long lines? Think of how hard it will be to decide how many urinals and how many stalls. We definately need to keep all these whackos straight - er - unconfused - er - in separate bathrooms.
Shalom.
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