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Just read any thread in this Christian forum and you'll have proof that Christians interpret the Bible differently according to their personal beliefs and opinions.
Usually by taking it out of context, using a poor translation or simply twisting it to fit.
It is perfectly fine for anyone to question or challenge. But when plain scripture, needing no interpretation is shown, then that settles what the Bible teaches. Using a term like fundamentalist is pointless as such covers a wide and diverse group including Jesus. Those who twist or add to scripture, take it out of context, translate in violation of grammar and similar are the problem. Then of course are the modern gnorant barbarian egotists who claim their own inspiration is superior to scripture.
But wait--non-literalists feel that literalists are the ones taking it out of context.
The context is that Leviticus is written in a time and place and culture where the actual people writing the laws, whomever they were, obviously thought male homosexual relations were unacceptable.
Now, some people believe that those words were given to those people directly from God to write down, and other people believe that the law-givers, in their honest desire to set down what they thought were the best rules for their society, included their own prejudices when writing down the laws.
It is very difficult for the people who believe the former to accept that others can believe the latter yet still believe in and worship God. But they do.
It is very difficult for the people who believe the former to accept that others can believe the latter yet still believe in and worship God. But they do.
Oh they don't?
So if I say: I am eating an apple.
It says something different than: Estoy comiendo una manzana.
Please explain. I am very curious to this logic of how we can't know the meaning of words in other languages. I actually speak Hebrew, Spanish and English so this is very interesting to me.
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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
If I say:
I am making a commitment.
Which of these means the same:
Estoy hacer a compromiso.
Voy a compromiso.
What does compromiso mean?
To get back on topic here, we should love all but that we hate sin. Homosexuality is an abomination as would heterosexual affairs, we should hate the sin love the sinner.
Seeing as "abomination" doesn't actually exist in the original scripture, nor does "homosexuality", I'm not exactly sure why you think that's the case.
Perhaps you need to stop clinging to a botched English translation.
And for the record, "Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner" was coined by Gandhi. It's not Biblical.
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