[Noah Sole]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

What can I do to prove myself?

Don't write any poetry...

[FreeFromBrains]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

Don't write any poetry...

Then I won't do poetry, I will try to be a Christian, definitely no poetry from me.

I'll get reading the bible, where is a good place to start, can you give me tips?

[Noah Sole]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

Then I won't do poetry, I will try to be a Christian, definitely no poetry from me.

I'll get reading the bible, where is a good place to start, can you give me tips?

Genesis 1:1 is the traditional starting point

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

I have done a lot is soul searching and I hope I will be worthy of Jesus's forgiveness.

I fully intend to devote my life to Jesus and will not be going to uni this year as I want to Become an active part of the south street baptist church.

This will take a lot of my time but I will bend over backwards to be a devoted member of the baptist movement.

You might do well to take some classes part-time. I'd strongly recommend an English courst.

You haven't yet figured out that verbs ("become") are not capitalized, while proper nouns ("Baptist", "South Street Baptist Church") are, because they are proper nouns.

What can I do to prove myself?

Read the Bible.

Not skim. Read.

Here's what I recommend you do. Set for yourself a goal of reading the book of Genesis this week.

As you read each story (Genesis is mostly stories), keep a notebook handy. Write down a brief overview of the story and where it is. Just a sentence or two; for example, "Noah's Ark, Genesis 6-8, God drowns all people (even unborn babies) and animals because the adult people won't obey Him."

Then, and this is the most important part, write down what the story tells you about God. Personality traits, what things He values in people, that sort of thing.

Friend, I promise that by the time you finish Genesis, you will have a far deeper understanding of who God is than you do today, and you will finally realize why we are so angered by the warm fuzzy "all-loving" lies fed to congregations by false Christian preachers.

You can share what you've learned here in this thread once you've finished Genesis.

If reading the Bible by yourself seems daunting, check out the links in my signature for some great resources to help you get started.

[FreeFromBrains]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

I'd strongly recommend an English courst.

If you think I should take an English courst, then of courst I should.

I've been poking around the site and it seems that God has some laws and we need to abey them and if we don't we will go to Hell.

Does that mean we it is okay to be gay as long as you don't do gay sexual activity?

[Noah Sole]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

If you think I should take an English courst, then of courst I should.

I've been poking around the site and it seems that God has some laws and we need to abey them and if we don't we will go to Hell.

Does that mean we it is okay to be gay as long as you don't do gay sexual activity?

God in his Almighty acknowledges that Satan may afflict a few people with gayness and that is not a sin. Gay activity (such as bumming) is a sin:

Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with MANKIND, as hee lyeth with a woman, both of them haue committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shalbe vpon them.

All the best

[FreeFromBrains]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

God in his Almighty acknowledges that Satan may afflict a few people with gayness and that is not a sin. Gay activity (such as bumming) is a sin:

Leviticus 20:13
If a man also lie with MANKIND, as hee lyeth with a woman, both of them haue committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shalbe vpon them.

All the best

What about gay thoughts?

My mum is Catholic and she says impure thoughts mean you still have to go to confession.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

Does that mean we it is okay to be gay as long as you don't do gay sexual activity?

Catholic priests that somehow manage to not rape small boys certainly hope so

Joking aside, it's impossible to be gay unless you do gay sex things. Provided you do as God says and get married and have children you are choosing to not be gay.

[Redeemed Papist]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

My mum is Catholic and she says...

There's no point even continuing past there.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

If you think I should take an English courst, then of courst I should.

I've been poking around the site and it seems that God has some laws and we need to abey them and if we don't we will go to Hell.

Does that mean we it is okay to be gay as long as you don't do gay sexual activity?

Thank you for catching my typo. I've pointed out a couple of yours.

Isn't this fun?

In answer to your question -- which you ask instead of doing as I suggested and reading the Bible -- I will turn to Jesus Himself.

Matthew 5: 27-28

27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Thinking about sinning is sinning. So stop it.

[FreeFromBrains]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

I don't understand, Redeemed Papist says it is if you do the sin you are in trouble with God but Reverned Rodimer says just the thought is enough.

Which one is right?

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

I don't understand, Redeemed Papist says it is if you do the sin you are in trouble with God but Reverned Rodimer says just the thought is enough.

Which one is right?

Both.

Thinking about committing sodomy is the same in God's eyes as doing it.

But being "gay" -- that is having a great sense of color, and being able to arrange flowers, and enjoying show tunes -- is not in itself a sin. As long as you don't behave in an effeminate manner or dress in drag.

[FreeFromBrains]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

Both.

Thinking about committing sodomy is the same in God's eyes as doing it.

But being "gay" -- that is having a great sense of color, and being able to arrange flowers, and enjoying show tunes -- is not in itself a sin. As long as you don't behave in an effeminate manner or dress in drag.

Okay, so if one of my mates fancies my how should I react?

[Noah Sole]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

Okay, so if one of my mates fancies my how should I react?

Stone him.

[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Re: An apology - I Looked at the Pictures in the Bible and I Think I Like it.

Okay, so if one of my mates fancies my how should I react?

Explain to him that sodomy, or fantasizing about sodomy, is an abomination before God, and that those who commit sodomy or who fantasize about sodomy are damned to an eternity of being burned alive in God's Lake of Fire.