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If they didn't exist in Lev. why did God write in the Law that same sex acts of man or women were to be stoned to death?
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Originally Posted by TroutDude
"God" didn't.
Anonymous, primitive, barbaric sand-poopers did.
And bigots continue to call them "god's word" because it gives them permission to hate Others and feel ever-so-special about their own sickly twisted lives.
Fundies would be pathetic if they weren't so full of hate.
LOL. But seriously, Charlie, you know that people wrote down those laws. God isn't that petty and small.
They were not written in hate. They were written to preserve their tribe and their culture and to set themselves apart as a people who followed one God. But it's wrong with the knowledge we have now to keep up the pretense that God wrote those words. It goes against the choice of compassion over the written words of men that Jesus taught about in the parable of the Good Samaritan.
I honestly don't think it's Charlie's intent to come across as such an unkind, cold-hearted person. I think he really does believe he is doing the right thing. That's almost more dangerous than someone who is intentionally unkind, though.
LOL. But seriously, Charlie, you know that people wrote down those laws. God isn't that petty and small.
They were not written in hate. They were written to preserve their tribe and their culture and to set themselves apart as a people who followed one God. But it's wrong with the knowledge we have now to keep up the pretense that God wrote those words. It goes against the choice of compassion over the written words of men that Jesus taught about in the parable of the Good Samaritan.
The bigger question is, why would anyone that calls themself a Christian willingly put aside God's Word and teach against it?
Hmmm. Jesus said not a letter of the law was changed.
It hasn't! Christ fulfilled the Law perfectly that whosoever believes in Him, that the Law might be fulfilled in them.
It's called the New Covenant! Paul's letters are dedicated to explaining that New Covenant.
Contrary to popular belief, no man has ever kept the Law and couldn't keep it, Christ came to fulfill the Law for us and in us through faith in Him. That's how we keep the Law under the New Covenant, by faith in Him.
There is no more curse of Law, but Israel and many others still choose to live under the Law, and they are still under the curse of the Law. There are several of them right here on this forum.
The bigger question is, why would anyone that calls themself a Christian willingly put aside God's Word and teach against it?
Because sensible, mature, intelligent Christians possessed of common sense know that God's "Word" was Jesus - not the primitive scribblings of anonymous desert dwellers.
That's probably true, God laid down laws for Israel that they necessarily were not doing but were warned not to do. Nevertheless, homosexuals inhabited the earth at that time.
Have I stoned anyone lately? I am not living under the death of the Law, Christ delivered us from that curse.
In Acts 2, on the day of Pentecost, mercy and grace overtook the merciless Law!
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Originally Posted by mensaguy
Hmmm. Jesus said not a letter of the law was changed.
The law of death? It appears to me that men still die?
It's the cycle of life and death, nothing has changed.
Because sensible, mature, intelligent Christians possessed of common sense know that God's "Word" was Jesus - not the primitive scribblings of anonymous desert dwellers.
Only fundies parse the scribblings literally.
If you spent the time studying the Word of God as you did condemning it, you would be very valuable to the Kingdom of God. But with things the way they are, Satan appreciates all his allies.
There are many here who love Christ and are working for His kingdom. The very serious problem is that they are working outside the power of the Holy Spirit on their own.
They don't realize that Christ has paid the price in full and doesn't need your help. He needs for you to humble yourself to His will and let Him bring forth the works of righteousness through you.
He provides the opportunities, He provides everything, you just walk through the open door when you see it. You create nothing, He does.
This is where many are working their own righteousness for Christ not realizing it is not accepted by God. It's all His righteousness or it's none.
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