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Ahh,but a different God for sure. One who approves of sex outside of a Biblical marriage, so who does that leave?
Remember the God of the Bible is ......... the God spoken of IN the Bible as its author. Any other is ... not that God.
"Biblical marriage"? Particularly in the Old Testament God supposedly allowed Soloman to have a heap of concubines (apparently the dude had an insatiable libido). There is all kind of weird crap concerning that male-female relationship in the Old Testament.
"Biblical marriage"? Particularly in the Old Testament God supposedly allowed Soloman to have a heap of concubines (apparently the dude had an insatiable libido). There is all kind of weird crap concerning that male-female relationship in the Old Testament.
Biblical marriage is male-female. That is it. No male-male or female-female.
A lot of people are obsessed with homosexuality, and it isn't Christians that's for sure. Christians are only responding to the tidal wave of homosexual pressure that comes not from the pulpit, but from the media and secular society at large. Christians have always held the beliefs they have, it is society that has become obsessed.
A recent article by Rev. Albert Mohler explained this very well:
Why are Christians so concerned with homosexuality? In the first place, that question is answered by the simple fact that it is the most pressing moral question of our times. Christians must be concerned about adultery, pornography, injustice, dishonesty and everything the Bible names as sin. But when my phone rings with a call from a reporter these days, the question I am asked is never adultery or pornography. It is about homosexuality.
Right, Christians are not obesssed with homosexuality, homosexuals are (and their supporters). They bring it up and keep it going and going and .....
Indeed. He asked a question and only wanted a yes or no answer where there is no yes or no answer. The answer was: It depends and then I proceeded to explain the biblical structure by which his question would be answered dependent on the particulars. It was just more silly baiting by people who have no intentions of having logical discussions, only desiring to play a sophomoric game of 'gotcha'. Not sure what I expected...
Indeed. He asked a question and only wanted a yes or no answer where there is no yes or no answer. The answer was: It depends and then I proceeded to explain the biblical structure by which his question would be answered dependent on the particulars. It was just more silly baiting by people who have no intentions of having logical discussions, only desiring to play a sophomoric game of 'gotcha'. Not sure what I expected...
Actually, you could have answered, but declined to do so directly.
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