Let's all reflect on God's mercy in giving us a clear and shining path to righteously avoiding Hell.
There's a reason why God goes to so much trouble to tell us who should be shunned (or preferably killed) in the Bible. It's because left to our own devices we'd screw it all up. We're way too prone to the urge to mercy, you see.
Let's take a scene probably all too familiar in ancient Israel. Two men are surprised in the sweaty and repulsive act of sodomy. The man who discovered them knows what he is to do and immediately draws his sword. But now he starts listening to his heart and not his head. The two men are his friends who he grew up with. One of them is his shield brother who pleads with him to be spared. For his friend to remember that he is still the same person who he has been the closest of friends with all his life. That is there's just this small difference between them. Nothing else has changed.
Luckily for the discoverer, he has God's wisdom on his side and he does the right thing and kills both of them immediately. Even better, his wider community supports his actions and celebrates that evil has been driven from among them.
Now let's look at today. Driven by soppy sentiment we listen to the entirely reasonable sounding pleas. We don't kill them. We don't even exile them or imprison them. We look for the good in them and turn a blind eye. We accept that a person is not defined by their sexuality but by their character. Can this be right?
Well God says NO! So we say NO! The only thing that matters about gays is that they are gay and therefore hateful in the eyes of the Lord, however much they masquerade as decent people.
There's a reason why God goes to so much trouble to tell us who should be shunned (or preferably killed) in the Bible. It's because left to our own devices we'd screw it all up. We're way too prone to the urge to mercy, you see.
Let's take a scene probably all too familiar in ancient Israel. Two men are surprised in the sweaty and repulsive act of sodomy. The man who discovered them knows what he is to do and immediately draws his sword. But now he starts listening to his heart and not his head. The two men are his friends who he grew up with. One of them is his shield brother who pleads with him to be spared. For his friend to remember that he is still the same person who he has been the closest of friends with all his life. That is there's just this small difference between them. Nothing else has changed.
Luckily for the discoverer, he has God's wisdom on his side and he does the right thing and kills both of them immediately. Even better, his wider community supports his actions and celebrates that evil has been driven from among them.
Now let's look at today. Driven by soppy sentiment we listen to the entirely reasonable sounding pleas. We don't kill them. We don't even exile them or imprison them. We look for the good in them and turn a blind eye. We accept that a person is not defined by their sexuality but by their character. Can this be right?
Well God says NO! So we say NO! The only thing that matters about gays is that they are gay and therefore hateful in the eyes of the Lord, however much they masquerade as decent people.
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