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Well, regarding homosexuals: It sounds like you hate them. It sounds like you think they deliberately set out to go against the teachings of God (rather than setting out on a course of action without taking God's word into account one way or another). It sounds like the hundreds of other times I've heard people from all walks of life take the shortcut of dismissing a different view on the assumption that said difference springs solely from some personal weakness, rather than having to deal with the possibility that the person behind that view is an intelligent human being who works off some sense of right and wrong- which in turn means that you have to actually figure out how that person's view works, and then show them where and how you'd say they go astray. Respecting others' views doesn't mean you can't think and say those views are wrong.Try to see this from the point of view of a gay man or woman raised in an atheist, American household. They grow up normally, go to school, love their mom and dad. At some point in middle or high school, they realize that they're attracted to their own gender and not the opposite one, a possibility they may or may not have already been aware of. They may wish this wasn't the case, if only because it makes their life more difficult in several ways (similar to someone wishing they hadn't been born left-handed). They know few or no Christians firsthand, forming their image of them mostly through what they see the media; they know what lifestyles most Christians say are wrong, but don't understand the underlying reasons.And then they meet you.This may happen some day. It may well have happened already. The two of you have a chance to interact, and you're aware of their sexual orientation- while to them, you are a rare firsthand experience with Christianity, a chance to see what this subgroup of society is really like.In one version of this scenario, your interactions with them are filled with the same venom I see in your posts in this thread- you refer to them as disgusting, repulsive, a low-life and a poisonous influence upon others. When you tell them their soul is on its way to hell, they get the distinct impression that you derive satisfaction from the idea.In the other, you instead seek to show compassion. When you tell them their soul is on its way to hell, their impression is of someone trying to warn them that they're in danger- to save them.In which version of this scenario do they listen?
I see, speak not right things but speak smooth things.Very revealing, do you reverence God, yes or no? There is no fence post for you to spin around on and check which way the wind is blowing. Pro.8:13 The fear (reverence) of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.Very revealing, calling evil by its name is a shortcut of dismissing a different view. Now I have heard everything.Very revealing, evil has a view and behind that view is an intelligent human being that works off some sense of right and wrong. So rejecting right as wrong and accepting wrong as right is some sense and not a conscious decision. I was wrong, now I have heard everything.You seem to want to portray me as the serpent injecting venom. This kind of spin is laughable. So now you are trying to redefine boldness for God as venom.Try to see this from their point of view, okay. Would I promote unclean and unnatural acts, no? Would I attempt to destroy family and all that is good, no? Would I call right wrong and wrong right, no? Would I call evil a point of view to be considered, no? Would I call doing evil a conscious decision, yes.Isa 30:8 Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever: Isa 30:9 That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the LORD: Isa 30:10 Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits: Isa 30:11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Isa 30:12 Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Isa 30:13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.