Bingowings said:
RicOlie_2 said:
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I hope you appreciate my treating you like any other adult and ignoring your age in terms of debating. Perhaps with age you will encounter more people which may alter the way you see things but at the moment you see things in a particular way and it is this you I'm talking to not a possible future you or the five year old you.
I do indeed appreciate it. Please note, however, that I do indeed think about what I post, so your example of the video I posted before isn't an example of thoughtlessness. It was merely a different opinion I had, which has since changed more than once. I would appreciate if you kindly refrained from bringing it up because it is no longer relevant to my view, but it was indeed representative (for the most part) of my view at the time.
It was indignation and a passion for justice that brought down apartheid, won universal suffrage and ended slavery (in those places where slavery ended) and this is what a large number of homosexual people feel. Indignation, a passion for justice and equality. You must feel that impulse yourself when you see injustice it's a very natural response. Give a treat to one child and not another and you will hear quite loudly how natural that impulse is.
When you hear people saying they want equality and your scripture seems to say something different and you can't put it down to mistranslation or a lost historical context consider the value of that text. Does it serve the spirit of Christianity to constantly raise passages which ask the reader to do things you would never countenance as modern day person of faith?
If your Levitican laws steer your church away from the good news remove them. For it is better for you that a part of the Bible be lost than the whole of it be tarnished.
I don't think the Levitical laws tarnish the Bible at all, since they are an important part of our salvation history. Though the specific proscriptions are not all valid anymore, the morals presented in them is still considered entirely valid by the Church and myself.