Why does being Christian mean you have to hate same-sex marriage?

Did you know that when the scribes copied the OT, that if it was not copied correctly, that inaccurate copy was to be destroyed. No evidence of it was to be left, so as to prevent people from accepting something that was not in the Word of God. And I would not be surprised if the early Christians did the same with the NT. Yet we have different translations nowadays. Why?

I'm going to only answer this one for right now. The others I will answer later on.

How many people do you know who still speak the language of Shakespeare, or how about Chaucer? I don't know really of anyone who speaks Old English or Middle English. Not to mention that England, Canada, the US, Australia, and New Zealand all have different dialectics. Yes, we all have the same base language, but different words mean different things. For example, in Scotland, what they call a biscuit, we would call a cookie. And what we call a cookie, they would call a bun. So, over time, and as people spread, the local dialects changed. Hence the need to translate the Bible into languages understood by different groups of people. Now, there are some bad texts and their are some good texts. Also different religions that claim to be Christian or Christian based, as well as various people have tried to changed the Bible to fit their needs and agendas. That's why we have to refer to the original text. (And by the way, you're one up on me. I have to go to a site that shows the Hebrew words in English.) However, you can usually tell that these translations do not hold up with each other well.

I just wanted to quote this and say

AMEN!!!!!!!

You are correct about the OT. And if you think your English Teacher was a nazi, these Hebrew scribes were even more strict. One tiny jot or tittle wrong, and they would destroy the whole thing.

But the early Christians did NOT do the same with the New Testament. In fact, it is quite the contrary.

There are hundreds, even thousands of different of sources of the New Testament texts, some of which contradict each other completely -- leaving out or putting in an "ouk" (that's Greek for "not").

So when a person or organization is going to put together a translation, the first thing they have to do is decide which of the hundreds or thousands of sources they will use to translate from. There are a few that generally agree with which texts are "probably" right. But it is nowhere near as certain as the Old Testament texts.

And, as we discovered when we found the Dead Sea Scrolls, even the OT texts have some variations, even with all the strict rules the scribes followed. The NT scribes were not seen as "scribes." They didn't think those documents were "Scripture" until hundreds of years after they had been written, copied, and re-written. It was very common for someone to read something, and say, "Oh, that doesn't make sense, I'm sure what Paul meant was...." and there was no Rabbi to come along and say, "No, you can't change that!" He would just change it, and then we have two versions. Multiply that by dozens of scribes, over 200 years .... and all of a sudden clinging to an interpretation of New Testament Scripture based on one word becomes really silly.

As I've said before, I don't believe in God because of something that's written in some book; I believe because of what is written in my heart.

Yes, it's Scripture. The Word of God. But it was never meant to replace the Living Word, which is Jesus, and anyone who does so is worshiping a false idol.

I'm moving this thread. This is a news forum. There are no news links in the OP.

God is not 4 the gay gayness of the sinful gay lifestyle end of story.
Men,you can marry a Women,you would like that,Its Gods Aprroved Plan.
Women,you can marry a Man,you would like it that is Gods Approved Plan.

and men/women kissing each other u will not die.

lol, that joke, God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve, just popped into my head. but even so, no humor to it God made man and woman and even in mary's day, it was Mary and Joseph the couple chosen to bare their perfect son Jesus Christ, which was done not by Joseph but was born of the Holy Spirit. And now á days we have a much higher divorce rate, gays, and corrupt governments with corrupt laws, and the seed continues...