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[RW]

Oh, it's what the rest of us call hitting rock bottom and finding God.



I'm glad you had that epiphany Dove.  I'm sure it has been for the better in your life.

[Romero]

I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

What do you think the Christian reaction should be?



Support or condemnation?

[Anonymous]

Well catholics fancy themselves as "the" church. So I assumed you meant them.  What do you believe the scriptural and church stance on homosexuality is?

Romans 1:26-28, "For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper."



Are you a Christian Dove?

 Yes. Let's not forget speaking truth in love. The homosexuals at our mission struggle with sexual sin just like all of us.

Absolutely Dove.

 

 I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

Our church does not relentlessly condemn gays who get married, but we still oppose it.

[RW]

Do you have gay members of your church?

[Anonymous]

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!



So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin......Romans 7:21 until the end verse. For Fash.

[Anonymous]

I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

What do you think the Christian reaction should be?



Support or condemnation?

 The biblical Christian reaction should be niether. No support of sin....no condemnation.

[Anonymous]

Oh, it's what the rest of us call hitting rock bottom and finding God.



I'm glad you had that epiphany Dove.  I'm sure it has been for the better in your life.

 I've had epiphanies and been on rock bottom. Seeing yourself ad you are... is far deeper, and traumatic. You are never the same after that.  That being said, thank you.

[Anonymous]

I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

What do you think the Christian reaction should be?



Support or condemnation?

 The biblical Christian reaction should be niether. No support of sin....no condemnation.

agreed

[RW]

Just disapproving stares.

[Romero]

I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

What do you think the Christian reaction should be?



Support or condemnation?

The biblical Christian reaction should be niether. No support of sin....no condemnation.

"No support of sin". So you're saying being gay is a sin.

[Anonymous]

9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.' 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!' 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."   Those disapproving stares need to pray about themselves

[Anonymous]

Do you have gay members of your church?

I cannot say for sure that some members have never been in a same sex relationship in the past..



I can say though that nobody in our church has proclaimed to be gay and non abstaining.

[Anonymous]

I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

What do you think the Christian reaction should be?



Support or condemnation?

The biblical Christian reaction should be niether. No support of sin....no condemnation.

"No support of sin". So you're saying being gay is a sin.

Yes, the bible says homosexuality is sin.

[Anonymous]

I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

What do you think the Christian reaction should be?



Support or condemnation?

The biblical Christian reaction should be niether. No support of sin....no condemnation.

"No support of sin". So you're saying being gay is a sin.

 God says homosexuality is a sin.  So is fornication. Adultry.  Christ used the word "pornea". Which is all sex outside of God's designed parameters of marriage.

[J0E]

I'm dismayed with the general Christian reaction to the legalizing of gay marriage. It's scripturally, and emotionally unbalanced. It's either a full endorsement or support....or relentless condemnation.

What do you think the Christian reaction should be?



Support or condemnation?

 The biblical Christian reaction should be niether. No support of sin....no condemnation.

agreed

Well if that be the case, how can a follower achieve salvation in Christianity?

That's the whole idea behind, just like Jesus dying on the cross for everyones sins so that the can be reborn, isn't it?



One of its core principles is that we are all sinners, and those who wish to become Christians must admit this in order to be absolved of them. Its not as if its supposed to be a free ride.

All the passages in the Bible which pertain to Chistianity condemn, not condone it.

Therefore a person cannot in unholy acts of sodomy and then simultaneously expect to enter the Kingdom of God.

And the only way for those individuals who subscribe to this lifestyle can avoid eternal hell in the afterlife is to renounce homosexuality altogether. Interestingly, the Bible does not condemn lesbians, but male homosexuality.