How do Christian churches justify performing same-sex marriages/blessings? (spiritual, Biblically, religions)
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There are points that one is permitted to re-marry and not be sinning....
Yes, but as I said later on...
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Originally Posted by Vic 2.0
("Christian" churches) can perform weddings for people who have been married before with no questions asked.
Admit it. The anti-gay crowd is motivated by prejudice, not what "God" does or does not approve of
Christianity is just an excuse, one that only non-thinking people will ever buy.
FYI, careful not to get busted for "flooding" the thread. You have quite a number of subsequent posts when you could've at least replied to several people in one post.
Maybe he just told her to do that for her own safety.
(MQ just trying to stir things up, hehehe.)
But to continue, a woman who is commiting adultery is also betraying and hurting someone else--her husband.
And just a note, jimmie--I don't think "lifestyle" is the correct word for what you are saying you are against. It is specifically the type of SEXUAL ACT you are against, isn't it? I don't think there is one "lifestyle" connected with homosexuals. They live many different types of lifestyles. Some are promiscuous, others are in committed relationships, etc.
The same way they justify wearing 2 different kinds of cloth, or eating seafood, not holding slaves, not holding concubines, not selling daughters for livestock, among other things.
Marriage is not a strictly Christian/ any other religious thing since the oldest recorded marriage laws are from Hammurabi's Code from Mesopotamia written nearly 4,000 years ago, long before Christianity, so you can't argue that marriage is sacred because it is not.
Christianity started out as a sect of Judaism and Judaism's Laws were in effect way before Hammurabi's Laws...
Most of the NT scripture was finished by the end of the 1st Century but 1) It was not heavily circulated yet and 2) Most people couldn't read and write. And the scriptures that were in existence, were not only the final ones that the Church ended up canonizing.
Christians existed before any book of the Bible was written. The Apostles were by definition the first Christians (or Messianic Jews).
they were called the people of the way before they were labeled with the coined term christian...They were a Judaic sect in the beginning...
FYI, careful not to get busted for "flooding" the thread. You have quite a number of subsequent posts when you could've at least replied to several people in one post.
Copy whatever you want to say to one person (including their quote) on the "Reply to Thread" screen, hit the "Back" button, find another poster to reply to, quote 'em, and paste your first reply onto your new "Reply to Thread" screen.
Copy whatever you want to say to one person (including their quote) on the "Reply to Thread" screen, hit the "Back" button, find another poster to reply to, quote 'em, and paste your first reply onto your new "Reply to Thread" screen.
Thanks, I'll have to give that some practice to get good at it...
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Originally Posted by Vic 2.0 Copy whatever you want to say to one person (including their quote) on the "Reply to Thread" screen, hit the "Back" button, find another poster to reply to, quote 'em, and paste your first reply onto your new "Reply to Thread" screen.
Thanks, I'll have to give that some practice to get good at it...
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Originally Posted by Richard1965 I am not sure how to do that...
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