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To: Jane Hafker who wrote (13043)	4/1/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Henry Volquardsen	Read Replies (2) of 39621

Jane, Thanks again for your response. I appreciate the honesty of your post and respect your heartfelt belief. As I said I am not a bible student so I won't be able to quote scripture as other will. I will put forward my views openly. I suspect you will disagree with some of what I say. I say these things not to offend you but so that we can both try to come to a better understanding of each other. I have struggled most of my life to reconcile what I hear pastors or other religious people say with I believe Christ's message was. To me Christ's message was love. Christ accepted all manner of sinners who would come to him. We were taught to love our neighbor as ourself. To judge not lest we be judged. You say that homosexuality is deviant and against God's law. I don't doubt that there are passages in scripture that can be interpreted as proscribing homosexuality. But much of scripture is combined with a historical narrative. Much of it is open to interpretation and is colored by the views of the human authors. To me there is only one clear and definitive statement of God's law, the Commandments. I believe the commandments are silent on homosexuality. I was struck by your comment that I do not look at practicing heroin addicts dragging into church and playing at salvation every month a brother. I still see them or her as someone who won't let go of satan's world. I am not going to pretend that I am not cynical about some people's professions of repentance. But that is a failing on my part. Who are we to judge what is in a person's heart? Only God knows what we truly believe. It is not our place to judge, it is God's. You state that God is being blamed for creating deviant behavior such as homosexuality. God created good and evil. He created all behavior, including homosexuality. I don't pretend to know if God considers homosexuality unnatural and a sin. I recognize that he may have created it as a test for some of his creatures to overcome. I do not have to struggle with that question, I am not a homosexual. The task I believe he set for me was to love his creations, however he created them. Christ taught us to love even the sinners for we are all sinners. It is for God to judge, not us. Respectfully, Henry

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