Originally posted by SVTNupe:
What you do is question why one thing is done in the OT Vs. the NT. That was my point.



I was making more a statement of historical fact than anything here.

Originally posted by SVTNupe:
I haven't seen or heard of that study but again, we aren't wild animals. We're human beings. I don't understand why the necesatity to make that comparison?



Some activities between species are very similar if not the same.

Allow me to pound the word "SOME" into the ground here so we don't get off on another merry-go-round tangent...


Originally posted by SVTNupe:
Yes the culture may be alien to ours but the concepts aren't.



The concepts of slavery, women as property, equal rights across race, gender, etc. were ALL very different then than they are now. These just aren't cultural, either. They are very fundamental beliefs that have CHANGED and the churches view have changed with them to a degree.

I'd say a lot of past concepts are very alien to what today's standards are...


Originally posted by SVTNupe:
Yes, I know the reason and don't agree with it. That was my point in an earlier post that we (man) have made the to read so as to satisfy what we believe. Show me a denomination in the scriptures. It doesn't exist yet they are here today.





Please clarify. I'm totally lost on this one.


Originally posted by SVTNupe:
My point was that it may not have been important to the context of THAT scripture. You asked earlier why aborition wasn't discussed in the scriptures. My answer is, I don't know. Since it wasn't and there are some questions regarding how God views it, I'd rather play it safe and hope that I never have to go down that path.

But since other people are on that path (right or wrong), they are dismissed with a wave of the hand?

Originally posted by SVTNupe:
You're claiming that they are misunderstood and personally, you haven't convinced me that what I quote from Romans doesn't address homosexuallity. Are you telling me I completely misunderstood what was meant by giving up natural relations for unatural ones with each other?



For the most part, yes, as the scripture has been taken out of context for what it was originally intended to address...

Originally posted by SVTNupe:
In who's opinion? So being a homosexual is no more normal than being a peodophile, correct?



Sigma nailed this one on the head much better than I've been able to, though I think the definition of pedophilia is getting crossed up here...

...and finally, sex between two consenting adults that are sexually aware and are old enough to grasp the consequences of their actions is TOTALLY different than someone preying on innocents.

Bad comparion, that one.

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