How do Christian churches justify performing same-sex marriages/blessings? (divorced, remarriage, Biblical)
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He also allowed for men to have multiple wives, and concubines used for sex. As long as the men didn't have sex with a woman or girl who was another man's property.
And your point is ??
Many Godly men in the Old Testament had multiple wives and concubines...
including two of God's favorites, Abraham and King David.
In the Old Testament God was married to Israel. Then after Israel's civil war,
Israel became two kingdoms, Israel and Judah. God was married to both of
them [later divorcing Israel.] So, one could say, for a period of time,
God was married to two wives.
Easy, the same way they accept that slavery is wrong, that forcing a rape victim to marry their rapist is wrong, that forbidding women from speaking in church is wrong, or any one of a number of other absurd teachings in the Bible that even all religious people ignore today.
The homophobic stuff just hasn't been added to the list yet.
During the civil war many churches justified slavery, since it is expressly permitted in the Bible.
Once gay people finally get equal rights and it becomes socially unacceptable to discriminate against them, the anti-gay stuff will go on the ignore list too and things will continue.
Easy, the same way they accept that slavery is wrong, that forcing a rape victim to marry their rapist is wrong, that forbidding women from speaking in church is wrong, or any one of a number of other absurd teachings in the Bible that even all religious people ignore today.
The homophobic stuff just hasn't been added to the list yet.
During the civil war many churches justified slavery, since it is expressly permitted in the Bible.
Once gay people finally get equal rights and it becomes socially unacceptable to discriminate against them, the anti-gay stuff will go on the ignore list too and things will continue.
If you think the precepts of the Bible will fade away and apostasy/perversion will continue on indefinitely, you are only deceiving yourself.
The Bible tells Christians to expect this... the apostasy, the "falling away"... revealing the "man of sin", the "man of lawlessness."
But the spirit of antichrist only lasts a short time, then his evil world order falls, replaced by the Kingdom of God on earth.
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I see, so it's your position then that the moral thing to do would be to return our society to following ALL the teachings of the Bible, so bringing back things like slavery then.
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