We all understand that you do not believe the Bible records actual historical events - but that does not give you license to take what it claims out of context or add your own opinions to the text.
Nothing you have said proves that He needed to say anything about homosexuality in order for the...
#1 The problem with this claim is that it's a promotion of a monopoly mindset. "We Jews own the Torah, and none of you can dispute it (even when parts of it OVERLAP the Bible)." Ummmm, has it ever occurred to you that the OT is not substantially different from the Hebrew Tanakh? While yes...
It's not my religion, but Christianity certainly teaches the concept of hate.
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, “My slave girl now hates me, and I blame you for this. I gave her to you, and she became pregnant. Then she began to feel that she is better than I am. I want the Lord to judge...
The possibility of our view of God changing based on such a scribal error would have to be virtually nil considering that all throughout the Bible it is affirmed that God hates sin.
Deuteronomy 16:22
Deuteronomy 32:19
Leviticus20:23
Psalms 5:5
Proverbs 6:16-19
Hosea 9:15
Zechariah 11:8
Malachi...
If you read those closely it is their actions which God abhors not their persons and God does not condemn them eternally if they change, for a person till his last breath may still be saved so to speak.
Matthew 5:45
..He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the...
No, assuming that the Bible contains the truth, God does not love all of humanity. There are some people God hates. There could be many people He hates.
Leviticus20:23 - "And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things...
You get around it by noting it's anatomically impossible. :)
Plus, you know, David didn't get killed for this little scene:
Ah, two naked dudes in a field ... even Saul thought they had something going on ... and while David never mourned or seemed to care anything about his wives, his "soul...
Goodness, you seem not to have read the rebuttal to these texts being about homosexuals.
It isn't "clear plain language." It is a translation, and we have shown that some of the words are NOT in the original, and if you read it from the top - it is condemning Molech worship which is Sacred Sex...
Yes it does refer to that, but in what context? In he context battlefield rape? In the context of a culture in which shame and honor are sexually-embedded? Neither of those conditions exist in the present context.
Well, how do we get around Leviticus20:23.............
Leviticus 20:13 (ASV) And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Isn't that pretty clear plain language.
I'm not advocating...
What I find interesting about your list and I agree that it supports their ridiculous ideals, is that the only one you quoted that is from the NT was allegedly written by Paul, and not one really contains what I consider to be the central message of Christ. In particular, the Sermon of the Mount.
And yet not a single one of those supports or condones what WBC does. But WBC does do a lot of running to mischief and sowing discord. And they certainly provoke many people, the sons and daughters and non-believers alike.
And not a single one of those comes from the Gospels.
These are some of the passages Phelps relies on to form the WBC doctrine.
Leviticus20:23 - "And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, andtherefore I abhorred them."
Leviticus 26:30 - "And I will destroy your high...
To God it does:
2Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, whither I bring you to dwell therein, spue you not out. 23And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and...
The only celebrations in the New Testament are observing the Messiah's death by partaking of the wine and unleavened bread on Nisan 14, not April 14 since the scriptures penned were going on the Hebrew calendar and not the Gregorian calendar which is what the Western world is using. A...