I would first look at what's Important. Love your Neighbor would seem to overcome other verses-- especially when interpreting them as you do, is so hateful.
So its hateful to tell the truth, is it?
Its not what you want to hear so it has to be "hateful"?
Well, for an unbeliever, you sure have a lot to say about things that don't have anything to do with you....of what concern is it to you what "believers" believe?
I have explained already what true Christian love does....it does not stand there and allow someone to forfeit their eternal future for the gratification of the flesh now. It can be 'tough love' but it has the person's best interests at heart....its better than allowing them to walk down a path that we believe leads to death. But it is their decision to make.
Moreover? I'd **certainly** not read it as Evil, because we now know that homosexuality is as natural as the sky, and homosexuals are born, not made.
I never said that homosexuals were responsible for their orientation...nor did I say it was evil. I said that its expression in a sexual act is contrary to nature and against what the Bible says. If a person has no regard for what the Bible teaches, then what is the point of arguing? They are free to do whatever they wish. But if someone purports to be a religious Jew or a practicing Christian, then they are under obligation to follow their scripture as the word of God. These are God's laws, not man's. We are not free to alter God's law to suit ourselves.
Thus, if god has made them homosexuals in the first place? WHO ARE YOU TO DENY THEM BEING WHO THEY ARE?
Hang on...who said that God made them homosexuals? Why would God make them that way and then penalize them for it?
Good grief!
We inherited all our imperfections from our common ancestor.....Adam. Its a genetic inheritance that we cannot remedy. (Romans 5:12) Hence why God sent his son to fix the problem.
Bottom line: You claim your god is LOVE-- yet, you seem to go out of your way to find an excuse to HATE.
Why?
Who said anything about hate? You keep saying that as if I have a vendetta against gays. All I am is a messenger. I tell people what God's word says and they are free to either accept it or ignore it. I have no hatred towards anyone.....neither did Jesus, although he did castigate the Pharisees at every opportunity.
He never gave sinners anything but an opportunity to change their ways.
God's word is not ambiguous in this issue. Its a moral issue and it often requires sacrifice to obey God's law.
This is the apostle Paul's take on the matter......
"For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin. 15 For I do not understand what I am doing. For I do not practice what I wish, but I do what I hate. 16 However, if I do what I do not wish, I agree that the Law is fine. 17 But now I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that resides in me. 18 For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, there dwells nothing good; for I have the desire to do what is fine but not the ability to carry it out 19 For I do not do the good that I wish, but the bad that I do not wish is what I practice. 20 If, then, I do what I do not wish, I am no longer the one carrying it out, but it is the sin dwelling in me.
21 I find, then, this law in my case: When I wish to do what is right, what is bad is present with me. 22 I really delight in the law of God according to the man I am within, 23 but I see in my body another law warring against the law of my mind and leading me captive to sin’s law that is in my body. 24 Miserable man that I am! Who will rescue me from the body undergoing this death? 25 Thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So, then, with my mind I myself am a slave to God’s law, but with my flesh to sin’s law." (Romans 7:14-25)
That explains it better than I can.