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John_Galt 03:18 am UTC 10/29/07 |
| In reply to: | re: NJC: Dumbledore being gay - Tremorlor 02:48 pm UTC 10/28/07 |
| Tremodor wrote: > There's precious little about tolerance in there. Are we talking about the Christian Bible? Luke 9:52-56: "...they did not receive him...And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village." I tend to think the story of Christ's life and death includes numerous examples of tolerance, religious and otherwise. I understand your reading of the text could be different. > As you keep mentioning homosexuals, it's ok to kill them > according to the bible. Must be something extremely evil > then, lying together with another man. No, it's not "okay" to murder homosexuals. I don't understand how you could have read Collosians or Romans or the New Testament, at all. You keep quoting material from the Old Testament as if the second half of the book did not happen, at all. It's completely unfair to say that Christians must follow the letter of the Old Testament and the Mesianic law when the New Testament is largely about the creation of a New Covenant repudiating the very Old Testament laws you keep pointing to. I will admit that both the old and the new testament include some text that can hardly be said to encourage homosexuality. > > The Bible does everything it can > > not to depict Jesus as a general. > > How come that so many Romans were needed to arrest a > pacifist then? I always took Jesus' arrest and death as a story that encourages tolerance. > > There's no way these > > secularists could have actually read the book and come > > away saying that the book is the cause of people lynching > > gays in Wisconsin or fighting wars in the middle east. > > Quote is likely off, but "a man who lies with a man as he > would with a woman is to be put to death" does sound like > a commandment. And if someone follows the bible makes it > legal for him to kill gays. I think that's Old Testament stuff or a really novel translation. The Christian Bible is in large part about the formation of a New Covenant because God believed as you do that the Mesianic law you keep citing had been corrupted. -=John Galt=- | |
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