2007-11-09 12:01:36 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
yes we should
2007-11-09 12:25:57 · answer #1 · answered by leelee90_08 2 · 2⤊ 9⤋
I'm sure God has spoken to you directly so you don't have to bother to take a breath and think before you act, and that's how you've come to ask such a brash and impertinent question, but most of us have to figure things out on our own. Some people do this by praying for wisdom, most of us sit down and read a book or two.
2007-11-09 21:10:48 · answer #2 · answered by colder_in_minnesota 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but God already has shown me truth -- the truth that he has shown me through Lord Jesus Christ is the truth of pure and unadulterated love.
God loves us, we love Him and one another -- there is NO OTHER truth.
I know that some people feel a need for another truth. They want to deify a late bronze age/early iron age book along with Jesus -- but history belies them. The Church existed for hundreds of years before the Synod of Hippo (393 AD) and the Council of Carthage (397AD) where the books of the canon (well a canon anyway) were selected and approved. The Church thrived without said canon, and I would argue that no good has come from that canon - a contraption created to give theologians "something to argue from" if memory serves from my early college days -- but there you are.
They want to deify a late bronze age/early iron age book along with Jesus -- but the book itself belies them as well. Jesus' love never fails -- but the earth does not set on pillars (I Samuel 2:8), it does not have corners (Isaiah 11:12) and it is not "founded" UPON the waters (Psalms 24:1-2). Bats are not really birds (Leviticus 11:13-19) nor do locusts and grasshoppers have only 4 legs (Leviticus 11: 21-23). I am sorry, but rabbits do not chew cuds (Leviticus 11:4-6 and Deuteronomy 14:7). Yet, the words of the Bible assert all those falsehoods; indeed, it is not only full of errors, but also reveals a monstrous being in the old testament, one who receives human sacrifice (Exodus 22:29 and more importantly Judges 11:30-39) and commands genocide, again and again (Joshua 10:40-42, I Samuel 15: 2, 3 and 8, and Numbers 31: 17-18), often mixed with the taking of sexual and other slaves. This being is not Christ - it is a primitive tribal deity, immortalized in books for which we do not have autographs, but which were combined into the canon of scripture by a vote of bishops barely more literate and knowledgeable than the authors.
Jesus Christ did not have the words of the Bible -- beyond the Torah and haf-torahs, and possibly not those as we know them now; there are no autographs of them either - but he lived and died for us. Faith in him is faith in Him, as it was in 60 AD, when the Eucharistic prayer and apparently the Eucharist already existed, but none of these books in what we call the New Testament and to which you are tacitly referring, had been written (Mark, the oldest, was written in approximately 65 AD according to accepted scholarship).
So feel free, pray for me that my eyes will be opened, and I will pray for you that yours be opened and that your heart will be changed to see the faith that led martyrs into the mouths of lions -- that led men and women to die unprotesting in love, not of a book that they had never seen -- but of the Lord Jesus Christ -- who rejected none and who loved and loves ALL and shows a path of love and caring for all mankind.
God has made me as I am -- for I have always been as I am -- sadly you on the other hand have free will regarding your beliefs -- and I have learned how much easier it is to grip tight to something that you know is wrong, when it offers surety, rather than to take the hand of love -- which offers uncertainty -- for then you have no absolutes except love - and must accept and care for others that you would rather not -- without the comfort of condemning them or the right to hate. Will you truly let go and let God? Or will you continue to find excuses to cling to human reasoning and human hate -- disguising it as the love and righteousness of God by using what I have clearly shown here to be a false witness in the form of the Bible? Open your heart, you will be surprised what is there.
Kind regards,
Reyn
believeinyou24@yahoo.com
2007-11-09 20:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Sure, go right ahead. Pray away.
I'd imagine the doomed passengers on the Titanic prayed pretty heavily too. Didn't seem to help.
Katrina victims, California wildfires, volcanic eruptions I'm sure all had people praying for positive resolution. And yet people still drowned, burned, and died.
Seems like prayers don't do a whole lot but keep you people busy. So pray away!
2007-11-09 20:11:36 · answer #4 · answered by dougeebear 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
I will pray for you too... and all those religion freaks to see the truth of live: in this world there is a diversity for loving... just go on with your life...
2007-11-09 20:22:13 · answer #5 · answered by Oreo75 1 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Are you really going to abide by a book on how to run your life and what you "think" you should be thinking? Its nothing but a brainwash. You kind of people are the most close-minded hypocrites in exsistance. Think for yourself. Expand your mind a little. Stop running your life by a book, or what preachers are feeding into your brain. No ones perfect. and thats how God made us. And he made us that way for a reason.
You probably only wrote this question just to offend people.
2007-11-09 20:34:02 · answer #6 · answered by kittysrus8 1 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I'll be praying for people like you to be able to afford the proctologist's bills that come with removing one's head from their rear.
2007-11-10 00:29:56 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. D aka David 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hahaha!Good joke!don't bother to pray for me!
i don't believe in your wooden god and anyway if she/it/he existed i wouldn't want her/it/him to "change my heart" i'm sooooooooo happy the way i am!
Thank u anyway,nice gesture from a close-minded.We have been said to have a disease,to be perverts and to be lost,but no one had ever volunteer to pray for us! LOL
2007-11-09 20:14:05 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Should we pray for your ignorance?! God doesn't like ugly, you know...
2007-11-09 23:16:14 · answer #9 · answered by S.F. Girl 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps we should pray for religious people who have got it all worked out wrong.
2007-11-09 20:53:07 · answer #10 · answered by DavinaOpines 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
God gives oppurtunities to see this 'truth,' he doesn't give truth.
But people have a say-so in life, and if they choose to be happy, then let them!
2007-11-09 20:44:18 · answer #11 · answered by Gale 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋