Re This God subject is very confusing. Earlier tonight I was doing some reading on the web, and found a whole lot of web sites by gay Christians, including ministers. They consider themselves very good Christians. This seems really illogical if you are implying that God is really judgmental. I mean, why bother to spend your life being a good Christian, even going to theological school, if you, and everyone like you--all homosexuals--are going to Hell?
Christine, you don't have to believe it, but God is indeed VERY judgmental. This goes back to what I've said earlier: MAN is extremely CORRUPT in the eyes of God, compared to his goodness. I mean EVERYONE. Jesus said in the sermon on the mount, "If a man looketh on a woman to lust after her, he hath already committed adultery in his heart". Jesus ends that sermon with "Be ye therefore PERFECT, even as your Father in heaven is perfect."
I'll give you a hint: The Mosaic Law (all those rules in Leviticus) were there for two main purposes:
1) To help keep people healthy, and keep people civil towards each other so they wouldn't turn into total animals., and
2) To show people how impossible it was to fulfill the law. To show them how much they needed God's grace, because they didn't merit ANY grace themselves. Even so, there were plenty of people later on, in Jesus's time, who felt they were fulfilling all of the law. They were often Pharisees and Scribes, or the learned, most religous people of the day. Jesus called them hypocrites, and OFTEN warned them how FAR AWAY from God their hearts were.
Again, perhaps you haven't read my most recent post to you, but nobody has ever said (that I'm aware of) that "all homosexuals are going to hell". You may not ever understand this, but believe it or not, people don't get to heaven on the basis of the goodness of their works or the get shut out because the badness of their works. You get to heaven by only ONE WAY: Understanding that you are in need of the grace of God in order to be saved, and then believing that Christ died for your sins, in YOUR PLACE. If a practicing homosexual or a practicing child molestor or a practicing murderer or a practicing bank robber believes they are a Christian, then maybe who knows? It's between them and God.
And hey, who really gets hurt in a bank robbery, as long as there's no violence? The losses are all insured anyway, right? Maybe some people just can't help themselves, and were born to rob banks. Maybe as long as they believe they are Christians, then GOD won't be too judgemental about the idea that they just LIKED to rob banks, couldn't help themselves.
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