Was" Is Pro-gay OK for Church?"

[James]

Re: Is Pro-gay OK for Church?

Without revising some of our thinking, =A0we'd be banning people from
eat=

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shellfish, because God thinks that is an abomination.

That is not revisionism. If you will accept the context, you will see
that those laws were never given to the Gentiles. This, obviously,
is why it is called as kosher diet.

The same chapter of Leviticus condemns homsexuality.
Pick and choose the scripture you like.

Now principles are to be learned for several times in the NT epistles
it
is noted that they are an example unto us.

We'd be forcing men to sleep with their brothers widow.

Again, both context and culture need be accounted for.

Wow...are we reading contextually now?
What happenned to the absolutes? What happen to the scripture being "crytal
clear"?
We have to take into account the time things were written and the
understanding they ahd at the time.

Hello,

If you are on the equator and are reading a book on Arctic survival,
don't you take the context into consideration? Obviously not much
would apply from such a book where you are.

It is similar with the Bible. We need to take any changes, or non
changes, it makes into consideration.

For example, the Bible clearly says that the Mosaic Laws of the OT
were done away with by the death of Christ. Col 2:14,

"having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was
against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it
to the cross." (NIV)

Thus God's servants today are under the law of Christ, not the
hundreds of laws from the OT Mosaic laws. But if a law of the OT was
reintroduced into the NT, then that basic principle is still required
by God's servants, such as the homosexual issue. (see Ro 1:26,27; 1 Co
6:9-11)


Sincerely, James

If you wish to have a discussion with me, please use email since I do
not follow all conversations in ng threads


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[Steve Hayes]

Re: Was" Is Pro-gay OK for Church?"

If that's what it WAS, what is it now?

It's nice to see that you're changing a subject that has been flogged to death
several times over in this NG, but what are you changing it TO?