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"Under the Law" means you read the Torah and you seek to be out of trouble/in right standing/accepted/blessed with eternal life by performing the righteous demands in it (Galatians 2:11-16, 5); "under Grace" means God's Holy Spirit is producing convictions in your heart on how to love and serve...

Jesus is "YHVH Is Our Righteousness" (Jer 23:6). A new means of righteousness that is NOT the Law. Romans 3 21But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for...

God told Noah that the fear of man would fall on the creatures, and they would be for food. For this reason, the Jews recognized that the Gentiles were not bound to keep the dietary restrictions. Clearly, then, some of the Torah was universal (eg, condemnation of homosexuality--the Canaanites...

Well, it does address one of them: we're not under the Law! LOL

Galatians 4 21Tell me, you who want to be under law, do you not listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondwoman and one by the free woman. 23But the son by the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise...

The Jewish believers came and confronted Peter about eating with Gentiles (re: Cornelius). There are laws detailing how ovens and pots and pans and what not become defiled by the corpses of certain animals, and there are laws for purifying some of these things, and the law stipulates they are...

Not that I disagree with the point (we're not under Law), but that statement ("Thus purifying all foods.") has been recognized as an interpolation. Paul knows we're not under Law, but he also says "to the one who thinks a meat is unclean, FOR HIM IT IS UNCLEAN", so THAT PERSON CANNOT eat...

From my own life, I know God is patient. God knows when we are confused. That said, Paul "brought the fire" SO AS TO SAVE lost souls, so as to FORCE them to repent (1 Co 5). That is the Christianity I believe in. God has subjected me to horrifying circumstances to make me see what I could not...

I wasn't aware he had claimed to have had a child who had gone astray like that. I do not automatically grant that he is telling the truth about that--that can be a tactic he is using to try get people to feel mercy toward, entertain, his lies when there is no warrant for it--but, certainly, if...

I do not follow either of those men closely, actually, I only 1) don't want to "steal" from them, and 2) despite my disagreements with Dr. Brown on other topics, believe that he and Dr. Gagnon are good resources on this topic (God gave teachers to the body of Christ, so I'm in line with...

1 Corinthians 5 1It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and immorality of such a kind as does not exist even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father’s wife. 2You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be...

A not insignificant amount of my knowledge and arguments on this topic come from Dr. Robert A. J. Gagnon, and from Dr. Michael L. Brown--to give credit where it is due, and to direct people to more knowledge on the topic.

I hold the same view--the common sensical view. It is my understanding that these French deconstructionists were Marxists. Marx was an antichrist--"they went out from among us", it says, and Christianity had been deeply inculcated in Karl Marx, one essay of his in particular had shown--and this...

It would be difficult to imagine a degree of antagonism against the pit of hell he represents that could not be justified. Deuteronomy 13 8you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9But you shall kill him. Your...

@Arthur81 goes out of his way to "misunderstand" Scripture (or he knows he's outright lying, sabotaging)--in his "interpretation" heterosexuals would be "common" (in the context, the damned). He loves perversion, so of course he has a perverted brain that cannot stand truth.

Importantly, 1 John qualifies this "lust" as NOT FROM THE FATHER, but as "love of the world". It's not of God, it's of the world--of its ruler, the devil, whose works Jesus came to DESTROY (1 Jn 3:8). Any "love" they have has nothing to do with the Father, but is "love of the world". God works...

Their "answer" to this obvious condemnation of homosexuality is, "Well, yes, the Bible DOES condemn FORCED homosexual relations, or HOMOSEXUAL PROSTITUTION, or PEDOPHILIC HOMOSEXUALITY, but this does not address loving committed homosexual relations." Conspicuously absent from Scripture is a...

Read 1 Corinthians 7 before answering it. Proverbs 18 13He who answers a matter before he hears it— this is folly and disgrace to him. 1 Corinthians 7 1Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2But because of immoralities, each man is to have...

Conspicuously absent from Scripture is ANY SINGLE INSTANCE of homosexual relations being mentioned in a positive light or celebrated. EVERY SINGLE TIME homosexual relations are mentioned it is to condemn it. If your understanding were correct, we'd expect to see many examples of homosexuality...

Christians don't accept that idea. Many have been saved out of that sin, going back 2,000 years. The world has changed its purport, invented evil, but the Bible hasn't changed. God saves from sin. "Let every man have his own wife" 1 Corinthians 7 says. Nothing else has ever been accepted...