Lest anyone in the world take that seriously, I'll risk falling for a trolling.
Forgiveness is mandatory if one seeks forgiveness. That parable in Mat 18 doesn't teach, though, that unrepented sin is no longer judged, or that it's OK to go ahead and persistently sin on the assumption that God will forgive it because of grace. If that were the truth, then Jesus was in error in
Matthew 11:20-22 (KJV)
[SUP]20 [/SUP] Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not:
[SUP]21 [/SUP] Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
[SUP]22 [/SUP] But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Any sin that will face a hard judgment by God is not something God winks at today, else it would be unjust to judge people later when supposedly forgiven today. He has not glossed over any sin, especially sins he hates enough to let angels come with judgment before the great Day of Judgment. We are the ones who must forgive now. However, Christians are taught in scripture not to hook up with sinners, accepting their sin lifestyles.
Paul made it clear not to associate with people who live contrary to holiness.
Romans 16:17-20 (KJV)
[SUP]17 [/SUP] Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
[SUP]18 [/SUP] For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
[SUP]19 [/SUP] For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
[SUP]20 [/SUP] And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Peter added that we would have to leave this world to totally escape contact with sinners, but that can't be used to say we ought then to be tolerant of the very folks to be avoided. He also wrote
2 Peter 2:20-22 (KJV)
[SUP]20 [/SUP] For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
[SUP]21 [/SUP] For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
[SUP]22 [/SUP] But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
I highly recommend studying that chapter to get the whole idea of what happens to people who are supposedly become Christian, yet return to the former sin lifestyle, or enter into another, presuming they will escape Judgment. Their judgment will be harsher than had they never heard of Jesus.
God commanded Adam and Eve to procreate, fill the world with people. There is yet no alternate way to do that without a man and woman "pleasuring" themselves together. To date people are still being born that are fully designed for that. I can imagine a lifetime eunuch with severe neurorpathy such that pain can't be felt, would accept your comment. The only restriction God has put on it is the requirement of biblical marriage between one man and one woman. To "pleasure" two bodies together outside the only marriage God accepts is fornication or adultery.
That's a terrible misquote regardless of Bible version. Let's drop the joking on this subject, put the record straight for the sake of the world of gullible folks.
1 Corinthians 7:1-2 (KJV)
[SUP]1 [/SUP] Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
[SUP]2 [/SUP] Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
It's OK for a man not to have contact with a woman, as not all are suited to marriage or raising children. That doesn't serve as approval to choose another man for "pleasuring together". If a man chooses to live as an eunuch, he is not sinning in that.
Homosexuality is in the sin class of fornication and adultery, to be avoided, specifically commanded of Christians in
Acts 15:28-29 (KJV)
[SUP]28 [/SUP] For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;
[SUP]29 [/SUP] That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
It says that a divorced woman must not be married again except to return to her husband only; but only a widow is free to marry another man because she is released from the laws. But lucky Jesus had died for all of us and so that we are released from the laws. /QUOTE]
Not one human is "released" from the "spirit of" the Law's moral code. The whole idea is to enter Christ, be forgiven, then live free of slavery to sin. You are not approved to take up the dead man of sin upon your back, carrying his putrid slime around in proud display. That dead man is supposed to remain buried. In Matthew 5, the central core of the gospel is revealed that God has amplified the moral code higher than Moses dared teach. I note that it was ignored that I posted earlier about how God regards lusting after a woman not our wife is equal to actually committing adultery with her. The same principle must be applied to a man lusting for another man, yet never actually physically "pleasuring" together. Even a eunuch can be found violating all that "in his heart". The same goes for women towards women.
The grace of God has to do with helping people escape slavery to sin, not wallow in it up to the Judgment.
Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
Matthew 5:28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
Whatever a person thinks, he is actually has done it eventhough he is has not committed it in the natural. But if there were nothing to prevents him from doing it, like the laws, he would of had done it. And that type of a person that is a slave to the laws, that they depends on them in order to make the right decisions.