How is any of what I said about lying to anyone? I said it's better to show compassion and have a bit of empathy, "invite the tax collector to your dinner table", so to speak, than to come out and harass somebody. I didn't say lie. I said there's no need, hell there isn't even any use, in threatening strangers. What makes you think that anybody, gay or straight, is going to listen to you when you walk up to them and threaten them or anybody like them (could be their partner, or even just their friends) with an eternity of torture unless they conform to your rules? If you came up to me or my kid where I live, in Belfast (or came up to pretty much anyone else who I know, for that matter) and said exactly what KaylaGirl posted, you would receive one of three things: total indifference, a verbal tongue lashing, or a slap so hard you'd have to sit down on the kerb and re-evaluate your existence. It's rude, it's unnecessary, and it's threatening, and there's absolutely no way that people are going to listen to you if you go about building a relationship with them like that, by saying "you're going to burn in hell if you don't believe what I say". Why would anybody want to believe a person who asks for trust (believe what I say) while simultaneously showing no empathy or understanding, no compassion, no ability to be pleasant, polite, or kind? They wouldn't, is the answer.
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Sometimes you make good comments... this is not one of them. The context of my comments was intended to be "personal business policy" and "personal relationships"... not social conduct in general... you have read enough of my posts I think to be able to figure that out. Or maybe you just think I needed to be "educated" in proper social conduct???
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We all know that sexual immorality is a sin, stop trying to act like we don't understand that !!!
The scripture you use from Romans 2:7-9 does not give us the right to discriminate or treat them badly, it is talking about they will go through the tribulation period and face those plagues in it and stand before judgment of God if they continue in that way.
Again nowhere does the bible give us the right to treat others like crap because of the sin/s they are in !!!
We are to show them love, do good to them, and try to bring them to the truth in Christ.
Keep your hate doctrine for these people up and see where it gets you, because hate is a sin also !!!
K
It is not telling a lie, as even our Lord Jesus went in and sat and ate and drank with sinners.
It was the Pharisees and such that ridiculed Him for doing this, instead of going in and getting on them for their sinful behavior He went in and sat and ate with them. When ridiculed Jesus said the well have no need for a physician, only the sick do which is what He came to do is heal the sick!!!
Lord Jesus was talking about sin and we were all sick at one time before accepting the Lord and knowing the proper way to walk that He set the standard for us.
It was the Pharisees and such that ridiculed Him for doing this, instead of going in and getting on them for their sinful behavior He went in and sat and ate with them. When ridiculed Jesus said the well have no need for a physician, only the sick do which is what He came to do is heal the sick!!!
Lord Jesus was talking about sin and we were all sick at one time before accepting the Lord and knowing the proper way to walk that He set the standard for us.
"Nerve"? What "nerve" is required to take a selfishly oriented stance against the Creator of the universe by insisting that "gay" is all right? That isn't "nerve." That's rebellion. You do know what rebellion gets you in the end, right?
You don't hold moral authority over me or anyone else, and neither does you belief system, your God, or your devil, your angels or whatever the hell flavour of the century you believe in. The only person you have moral authority over, the only brain you can drive, the only person whose personal, adult choices you can dictate, are your own.
That's the point. You aren't my father, you aren't Eric Fanning's father, you aren't Barrack Obama's father. Those guys can take or give any job they like, and their personal, adult, private lives and decisions -- who they sleep with, what they like to get up to in the comfort of their own homes -- so long as it doesn't harm anyone else, is utterly unaffectiing and irrelevant to your ability to lead your own free life.
That's the point. You aren't my father, you aren't Eric Fanning's father, you aren't Barrack Obama's father. Those guys can take or give any job they like, and their personal, adult, private lives and decisions -- who they sleep with, what they like to get up to in the comfort of their own homes -- so long as it doesn't harm anyone else, is utterly unaffectiing and irrelevant to your ability to lead your own free life.
