Isn't the emphisis in the bible on love thy neighbour, whereas the bit about homosexuality merely a footnote, along with the stuff about eating shellfish being a sin?
2006-07-27 11:02:10 · 48 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Woah! Back up there, Spookbaby. Who says I'm a Christian? I've been called a few things in my time....
2006-07-27 11:22:09 · update #1
Wow trijoy726, I didn't think that people like you actually existed. No wonder the world is in the state it is!
2006-07-27 11:24:30 · update #2
yes i am gay i class by self as christian, many religions may disagree but i belief that god made us and he through Jesus commanded that we love each other regardless whether we are straight or gay
2006-07-27 11:37:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Christians are taught to love the person and hate the sin.
what you do with that is between you and God.
A true Christian will not judge someone, but simply tell them what the Bible says. When a Christian says that homosexuality is wrong because the Bible says so, that means that we are not the ones who are judging, but the God that made us. For some reason some people have a hard time understanding that difference. My best example of this is a person teaching someone how to drive. A vehicle is built to respond a certain way. Turn the wheel to follow the road, the instructor will show and tell the person to turn right for a right handed curve, not to turn left or otherwise run off the road. Simply telling you how the "Maker" intended for the vehicle to be used.
2006-07-27 11:18:10 · answer #2 · answered by simplemod400 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a practising Christian and my best friend is gay. In the Bible it says hate the sin but love the sinner. It also says you should love everyone somewhere which I do try to do. Personally I don't have anything against homosexuality at all and I certainly love my best friend in a friend way.
I don't know anything about the shellfish though, lol. Where's that?
2006-07-30 02:33:20 · answer #3 · answered by ainsleyrix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The verses about homosexuality are not merely footnotes--they are found in several NT books. However, if you want to believe as the gay Christian churches do, simply disregard all these verses (and for some reason ONLY these verses) as mistranslated.
But a true Christian would never condemn anybody. Judgement is for God, not for man.
2006-07-27 11:07:20 · answer #4 · answered by Crys H. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read again your Bible my friend... especially Romans 1.
A true Christian: who follows Jesus Christ: and not a man made religion, has to follow the word of God as a whole!! We cannot as I have said several times before in my answers: 'Pick & Choose' the scriptures we like, feel comfortable & happy with: and disregard the rest!! We may not like or totally agree with what we read: but that is where, FAITH, hope, and love comes in!!
Homosexuality: Immorality: sex before marriage: theft: murder etc: are all sin's in Gods eyes!! There is no getting away from this... and there is nothing we as individuals can do to change it!!
However... who are we to condemn? It is the Lord who judges, not us!! We are to 'Love' the sinner: not the sin. And must always remember: as we point one finger at another: there are always three more pointing right back at us!!
I have been a struggling Christian for over 20 years: I still have good friends & family, both male & female who are gay: Muslim: atheist: agnostic: I even know someone who says he is a white witch!!
Obviously we share different beliefs and ways of life... but I do not condemn or judge them: or them me... I witness to them... they listen. and visa-versa!!
At the end of the day, it is ‘GOD’, not ‘I’: who works in their hearts and minds, and then gives them the 'Free Will' to choose: His way -- Or -- Their own way!!
2006-07-27 11:52:03 · answer #5 · answered by englands.glory 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's totally possible. The Sodomites and their ilk were never actually described as practicing sodomy or being homosexual. Also, when you think about it, Jesus must have at least been bisexual. Think about it for a minute. He hung out with 12 guys all the time, always preaching about loving your brother and your neighbor and your enemy, while not coveting their wives. Also, that whole "kiss of death" wasn't really necessary. Judas could have simply pointed Jesus out, but instead went up and kissed him. The subtext is all there, so it makes very little sense to condemn it.
2006-07-27 11:19:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anytime someone practices sin as a lifestyle, day in and day out, we as Christians have no choice but to disassociate ourselves with that person, no matter what the sin.
And eating shellfish was forbidden in the Old Testament for health reasons, and the New Testament in Jesus' blood set us free from the restraints of the Old Testament law.
2006-07-27 11:19:07 · answer #7 · answered by MamaMia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This question is asked over and over and over.
Homosexuality is a sin, according to the bible. Period. Just as is adultery or murder. The reason Christians bring it up is because there are those who keep trying to get it taught in schools as a "regular" way of life. I don't think so! So we have to answer over and over again, yes, the bible does say that.
The Old Testament laws were given by God...to Moses...for the Hebrews. Gentiles were never held to these (hundreds of) laws. Enough already!
2006-07-27 11:10:41 · answer #8 · answered by christian_lady_2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really find both activities to be disgusting even though I have in my lifetime done both and needed forgivness for eating things the Creator never intended as food and well we won't go into that one.....
We must seperate the action from the person. I like many people who are living in homosexual relationships. I find most of them are a lot of fun to be around as well as those that eat fish without fins and scales. Yahueh is the Creator instructes us as his children what is good and what is not good behaviors. We have to choose.....
I know I have chosen because when I did these things I would evaluate how they made me feel when it was all over. I felt depressed and used. I did not get any long term feeling of satisfaction from these activities. I loathed myself.
The consequences just were not worth it to me. Others may disagree.
I can't agree with the first poster that Jesus died to make any food clean but to make sinners clean. You may interprete the words in the New Testament to say this but they do not. Peter said in Acts 10:28 that the interpretation was that he was to call no man common or unclean not the animals representing different nations of people he saw in the sheet let down. I don't recall there being any shell fish there either!
1Timothy 4:3...commanding to abstain from meats, which Yahu'eh hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4:4 For every creature of is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
4:5 For it is sanctified by the word of Yahu'eh and prayer.
Notice this favorite passage of those that advocate eating unclean animals talks about the purpose the animal was created for and that there is a truth that needs to be believed and known. Verse 5 tells this truth that it must be set apart by the WORD and prayer. No place in the 66 books does it sanctify these unclean animals to be eaten! So prayer and thanksgiving alone will not make them clean!
As far as mixed clothing goes I try my best to keep these laws because it has been proven this does effect your health. Especially synthetic materiels. I haven't mixed any species either on my small farm.
The law of Yahueh is still in force according to the Messiah own words in Matthew 5:17-20 and we have all broken it so we need a Saviour to forgive us and deliver us from our transgressions of his law. Yahushua on the other hand said that the commandments and traditions of men were done away with as well as our penalty for violating His law when we acknowledge our transgressions and ask for mercy and empowerment to change.
1Peter 3:15-18 tells us not to fall into the error of the lawless and Jude warns us in verse 4 of his epistle about those forordained to come which will turn the grace of our Lord into a license to trangress the law or sin(1John 3:4)
2006-07-27 11:20:36 · answer #9 · answered by echadone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plenty of Christians eat shellfish, and I believe homosexuality is on the same level as shellfish. That means they're hypocrites! They should love and respect all people, regardless of sexuality. It seems they can only love straight Christians.
2006-07-27 11:06:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hey Grinner, great job. It didn't take long for the fundamentalist nutters to come crawling from the shadows did it?
It's all Hell this and condemn this, wheres the love?
This is exactly why I am not religious it's all love, love, love and love thy neighbour, mother, father, 3rd cousin, uncle ted, the dog, the bin, the fence but when homosexuals are involved it's I CONDEMN THEE TO BURN IN THINE FILTHY HELL FIRE YOU HIDEOUS SPAWN OF SATAN!!!
Shellfish? Is that some kind of wacky innuendo?
2006-07-28 02:06:32 · answer #11 · answered by Skull 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋