• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Search results

  1. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    "In the biblical creation stories God produces individual beings and not universals, Adam and Eve rather than the ideas of manhood and womanhood." Systematic Theology, Paul Tillich, Vol. I, pp. 174 "The symbol of "the Fall" is a decisive part of the Christian tradition. Although usually...
  2. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    "Genesis 2-3: the Creation of Sexuality In unfolding her interpretation of Gen. 2-3, Trible dispels arkhonic (4) notions regarding the explicit and implicit meanings of the text. She describes the narrative as the development of Eros (love of life), in four episodes of a love story, that began...
  3. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    Again, God's Word is what you interpret it as. If you want to see homosexuality as an abomination you are going to reject the hermeneutics that would rob you of that belief.
  4. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    All this chapter says about marriage is how it should be. It does not say what constitutes a marriage. Other references are only about wedding ceremonies. So if you get married, these are the guidelines for marriage. It is all about the relationship.
  5. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    First of all, the stance you say God takes on homosexuality it your interpretation. As a Christian, I disagree. Secondly, to deny that homosexuals are born that way is contrary to science. I have to ask you if androgenous people are born that way? And what sex should they take? May be that...
  6. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    "In Leviticus 20:13, the death penalty is specified for both participants in male-male same-sex practice. These form part of a series of prohibitions of sexual conduct, including incest, intercourse during menstruation, adultery and coupling with animals. These laws stand within the so-called...
  7. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    I'd need to research this passage more but for now this is an interpretation to ponder. Keep questioning and seek others interpretation: "III. Ham's impudence and impiety: He saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren, v. 22. To see it accidentally and involuntarily would not...
  8. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    I suggest that another group will show you a different way to interpret the Bible. If your Christian group chooses what rules to use to interpret the Bible then they are making the Bible say what they want it to. That makes their interpretation contrary to what they believe.
  9. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    But then it was an honest response. You really need to get some help with your problem. Also, do some in depth Bible Study to get closer to the facts as modern exegesis have done.
  10. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    Second part 2 of 2: Paul could not have meant malakos in the literal sense of 'soft', other than to apply a critical stereotype such as "softies", perhaps with Stoic and Hellenistic Jewish influences in the background. What makes the persons "soft" is unclear and unspecified. Some...
  11. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

  12. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

  13. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

  14. S

    Is reason a good enough basis for belief/non-belief?

    For some reason, I think you have missed my point about "leap of faith." Basically, it take no reasoning to believe in God but it does take a "leap of faith." That means there is no reasoning that could help you to understand God. There is no understanding except for subjective and objective...
  15. S

    Is it true that the world will end in the year of 2012?

    If you're Christian and believe in the second coming then the end of the world will negate whatever is your belief. Three things threaten life as we know it on earth. 1) Asteroid Apophis, 2036 probable collision with earth, 2) overdue reversal of the poles; massive radiation from sun affecting...
  16. S

    Struggling to come to terms with something I have read in the bible.

    Read my posts #335, 336. I am in agreement with you.
  17. S

    Is reason a good enough basis for belief/non-belief?

    "Faith falls short of understanding, for a mind that understands assents to what it itself sees in the light of the first premises of understanding." Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas, edited by Timothy McDermott, pp. 29. What that quote says is that any understanding one might have is outside...
  18. S

    Marriage Equality Is a Theological Necessity

    If religion calls marriage a union, a relationship between a man and a woman and the government recognises marriage in the legal sense allowing religions to marry couples then it stands to reason that the government does not interfere with the religion's choice to marry male and female. What...
  19. S

    Is reason a good enough basis for belief/non-belief?

    Neither ruled by cause nor effect. We are a part of the first cause, the effect, a part of creation. All that exists is the effect of the first cause.
  20. S

    Is reason a good enough basis for belief/non-belief?

    Agreed, we are a part of Creation and therefore exist for a short period of time; life and death with no promise of of anything. The "Big Bang," there was no such thing as time before that "Big Bang" nor do I suspect that God exists in time and space. Time and space is very much an integral...
Top