An Indiana church is urging the Trump administration to "execute" members of the LGBTQ community because "the Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death," according to WISH-TV 8 in Indianapolis.In a sermon titled, "Pray the Gay Away," Stephen Falco, an evangelical preacher with the Sure Fou...
I will start this out with a disclaimer that I do not follow Christianity at all…
If you are a bible-follower and friendly towards homosexuals, then I guess you’re skipping over that part where it says “homosexuality is an abomination”.
That’s one of the many reasons I can’t look to the Bible for guidance. I have some gay friends and they deserve all the love and consideration everyone should get.
To those that say the Bible deserves to be followed, but exclude the parts where it says homosexuality is an abomination, I wonder what other parts you ignore? AFAIK, one isn’t supposed to flip through the Bible and pick and choose which sections should be followed.
This is one of the many reasons why I consider the Bible immoral, and following it either immoral or morally and logically inconsistent.
I respectfully disagree, Jesus doesn’t even mention homosexuality.
Paul mentions homosexuality, but Paul is very notably not Jesus, he’s basically just a guy who rolls up after Jesus is dead and says he’s an apostle now. There’s also significant cultural context there, and his objection to sex applied to all recreational sex regardless of orientation.
The Old Testament also mentions homosexuality. I am not sufficiently educated on Hebrew culture to comment on those passages, but I do know that Christians are very explicitly not bound by Old Testament law.
The Old Testament doesn’t mention homosexuality, but rather men having sex with men. Presumably homosexuality by orientation in of itself is not a sin. Paul might be indicating that homosexuality is more of a curse than a sin.
If one is going to kill another person, one should have good reason, otherwise it’s murder, which the Bible also proscribes.
From what I learned and understood about the Bible, Jesus decided everyone was doing an awful job at following gods law, so he introduced the golden rule. Even with that simplification, people gave a hard time understanding. As far as I’m concerned, things like homosexuality would be cleared according to Jesus’s guideline.
The old testament says a lot of things (in ARAMAIC) that have been translated by fallible human hands a hundred times with implicit bias. It’s a game of telephone that’s been going for thousands of years. It didn’t mean “gay people are bad”.