How should the Christian Church treat homosexuals?

[vnct]

if you just read back a few pages we have had two or three or more on here trying to say the bible says homosexuality is ok....

well, i don't agree with them. there is romans chapter one. somom and gomorrah. capital punishment in the law of moses.

maybe if you would let them go to church, they would know what the bible says.

 

[yourgraceisenough]

well, i don't agree with them. there is romans chapter one. somom and gomorrah. capital punishment in the law of moses.

maybe if you would let them go to church, they would know what the bible says.

lol...thats a good point...

 

[yourgraceisenough]

pastors generally get hooked up on the membership thing.

don't tell that to the pastor. you have to be a tithing member if you want routine pastoral services. no freeloaders please.

yes, high financial stakes if tithing members don't receive priority service.

have you attended many churches? and in what denominations?

I must have broken the mould, I don't ever preach or teach about tithing,

no one should ever be treat differently because they tithe or don't..

tithing has nothing to do with salvation...

I have no interest in members or numbers just seeing people saved after that they can go where ever they want to go to worship..

If somebody wants a position in the church God will show me ...

I have attended several churches of mixed denominations though I am most settled in lively churches...

 

[Fester]

well, i don't agree with them. there is romans chapter one. somom and gomorrah. capital punishment in the law of moses.

maybe if you would let them go to church, they would know what the bible says.

Do you believe that those Christians who disagree with your interpretation of scripture are bad or not "true" Christians?

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

why do gays want to be accepted by God, why does it bother them so much they try to prove the bible says it's ok???

I don't know; why do they bother you so much you look to the Bible to condemn them?

 

[yourgraceisenough]

I know!

I will also CURSE my kids to heaven if they ever dare to mock God´s words.

That´s what the bear I´ll buy for my backyard is for.

see now you are talking sense....

 

[vnct]

lol...thats a good point...

that's just the plain and simple of it. if you don't want them living that lifestyle, then invite them to church.

I have no interest in members or numbers just seeing people saved after that they can go where ever they want to go to worship..

that should apply to homosexuals also.

 

[Walkntune]

It's called apologetics I believe

More like theolotics!

 

[vnct]

Do you believe that those Christians who disagree with your interpretation of scripture are bad or not "true" Christians?

no, not at all. they simply may not be acquainted with certain bible passages which condemn homosexuality. i'm not even saying that they must agree with the text. it's just good to know what it says if otherwise making biblical references or appeals.

 

[yourgraceisenough]

that's just the plain and simple of it. if you don't want them living that lifestyle, then invite them to church.

that should apply to homosexuals also.

if they have no intention of stopping being gay they have no place in church...

 

[yourgraceisenough]

I don't know; why do they bother you so much you look to the Bible to condemn them?

I don't condemn them they condemn themselves as do all sinners but if they come to Jesus with a repentant heart they will be saved...

 

[Fester]

no, not at all. they simply may not be acquainted with certain bible passages which condemn homosexuality. i'm not even saying that they must agree with the text. it's just good to know what it says if otherwise making biblical references or appeals.

So... anyone who disagrees with you just doesn't know the Bible as well as you. Am I reading that correctly?

 

[Fester]

if they have no intention of stopping being gay they have no place in church...

(One facepalm just wasn't enough)

 

[Fester]

I don't condemn them they condemn themselves as do all sinners but if they come to Jesus with a repentant heart they will be saved...

No, actually, it's you.

 

[Me Myself]

if they have no intention of stopping being gay they have no place in church...

homosexuality is a biological event that they were born with:

The brain of an homosexual is configured the same way that the brain of the opposite sex.

In other words, God made them gay.

Symmetry Of Homosexual Brain Resembles That Of Opposite Sex, Swedish Study Finds

 

[angellous_evangellous]

to hold the word of God as important and not to mock it absolutely....

Then you'd better stop mocking the Bible - to use your words. In my words, you're exploiting, raping, and murdering the spirit of the text - what was once sacred is now so profane that it's unrecognizable.

Such contempt for something that you claim to follow. It is tragic.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

I must have broken the mould, I don't ever preach

You preach?

You're woefully untrained.

 

[Songbird]

if they have no intention of stopping being gay they have no place in church...

Heh. I have somewhere in mind to quote this. Hope you don't mind...

 

[darkstar]

if they have no intention of stopping being gay they have no place in church...

By that logic neither does someone being unfaithful to their spouse, or has sex before marriage or someone who drinks in excess, or any number of "sins" that take place in society on a regular basis.

Wonder how big your congregation would be then....

 

[angellous_evangellous]

By that logic neither does someone being unfaithful to their spouse, or has sex before marriage or someone who drinks in excess, or any number of "sins" that take place in society on a regular basis.

Wonder how big your congregation would be then....

It would be a congregation of one.