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Originally Posted by annabethchase
Being nice is not a sin!
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No, it certainly is not! Just look at this example from the Bible.
You see, Lot had some houseguests, and while he and his guests were enjoying a feast that Lot had prepared, a whole passel of rowdy neighbors showed up and demanded
-- demanded-- mind you, that Lot turn over his male houseguests to them so that they could enjoy them in a homosexual manner. Now unlike so many modern thinkers who insist that "God is Okay with the Gay" Lot knew better, and because he knew that it is always important to be nice to guests, he came up with this solution:
Genesis 19:8
See now, I have two daughters who have not known a man; please, let me bring them out to you, and you may do to them as you wish; only do nothing to these men, since this is the reason they have come under the shadow of my roof.”
Anyway, those of us who have actually read the Bible know how that all turned out. Suffice it to say, God rewarded Lot for being so nice to his houseguests. And God punished everybody in the whole town for the raging gay behavior of the mob who had shown up at Lot's house in the first place.
Now, some people insist that this piece of Biblical narrative doesn't condemn homosexuality, but merely homosexual rape of strangers. But the story is clear that God wiped out the whole town. There isn't one drop of ink to be found that indicates that God spared the babies or the toddlers or the little bitty lambs or the cute kitties or the whatnot.
God napalmed an entire city because there were gays in their midst. The text makes it clear that the gays took to the streets-- probably a lot like Gay Pride Parades today-- and apparently no village elders or town council members had the moral fiber to stand up to the gays and stop them. So, God took care of the matter for them. And He also made sure that Lot got out okay before He burned the others to a crisp.
So, here we see that being nice, like Lot, is not a sin. But being "nice", in as much as it involves allowing gays to have their way,
is a sin.
Citationally Yours,
Handmaiden