Leviticus and Homosexuality

[sojourner]

Yes slavery itself is okay. Harming others is not okay. Servitude is okay.

"Savery is OK."

In other words, buying, selling, and owning human beings is OK.





Don't speak out both sides of your mouth! "Servitude" =/= "slavery." Which is it that you're advocating? Or are you advocating both, as it appears here that you're doing?

 

[serp777]

Because "God's Word" is far, far more of an authority on psychiatry. next time you're in the hospital for a coronary bypass, try relying on the bible instead of studied medical procedures.

Hey, you almost sound like an atheist.

 

[sojourner]

Will Satan confess that Jesus is Lord? Will you?

Asked and answered.

 

[Sonofason]

SO then why did God allow for all nearly all mammalian species to have homosexual tendencies? Seems like he allowed this universe to make homosexuality flourish.

You sure make God sound petty if he cares about something as unimportant as who you have sex with.

"Please explain what existed directly after the Big Bang,"

Well how do you define directly after? A planck second? A nano second? A microsecond? Time was probably coming into existence directly after the big bang, whatever directly means.

okay then, so clearly you don't know. So why pretend that you do? Don't say that other things existed directly after the Big Bang if you don't know what existed directly after the Big Bang.

 

[Sonofason]

And anyone else who's spent any time at all in responsible exegesis of the texts.

That again is obviously untrue.

 

[Sonofason]

Having everyone interpret the Bible for themselves has certainly done wonders for Christianity.

God giving understanding to the wise is not the same as everyone interpreting the Bible for themselves.

 

[Sonofason]

But you don't use commentaries.


Why do I doubt that you read in Hebrew and Greek?

I did not say I can read Hebrew and Greek. I said I study the Hebrew and Greek texts. Studying is not necessarily reading.

 

[Sonofason]

Humans evolved gradually like every other species.

You should be the one defining human. Most modern day humans have neanderthal DNA in them. Some humans do not have this neanderthal DNA. Are you asking which gene would be the tipping point to make someone human? I think you can agree that's a ridiculous definition.

It's not like a chimp fetus mutated and then suddenly it became a human. A few genes changed at a time. There was no tipping point.

Humans today are evolving into something not human. Would you argue that a new gene mutation in a human today would make someone not human?

This is like asking when a kid can be defined as a teenager or vice versa. It's very slow and gradual, and there is no black and white distinction.

If there was no tipping point, then all of our ancestors were human. We will always be human.

Or

None of us are truly human, except of course those we decide to include.

 

[Sonofason]

You haven't shown me anything but the back of your head as it sticks up out of the theological sand.

I would expect nothing less.

 

[Sonofason]

Sounds to me as if Someone's trying to justify a hard-and-fast belief without admittedly knowing WHY.

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[Sonofason]

Nope. Not assumptions, just How It Works with solid, rigid, hammered out domes.

For some misguided reason, you are once again using the wrong definition.

 

[Sonofason]

Because "God's Word" is far, far more of an authority on psychiatry. next time you're in the hospital for a coronary bypass, try relying on the bible instead of studied medical procedures.

I have little faith in medical procedures.

 

[Sonofason]

"Savery is OK."

In other words, buying, selling, and owning human beings is OK.





Don't speak out both sides of your mouth! "Servitude" =/= "slavery." Which is it that you're advocating? Or are you advocating both, as it appears here that you're doing?

Under certain conditions, yes.

 

[Sonofason]

Hey, you almost sound like an atheist.

He is an atheist.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

God giving understanding to the wise is not the same as everyone interpreting the Bible for themselves.

How is it not? How do you know if you're "wise" or not?

 

[Sonofason]

How is it not? How do you know if you're "wise" or not?

I am not certain if one can know for certain that he is indeed wise, but I assure you, "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." (Proverbs 1:7)

"My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path." (Proverbs 2:1-9)

 

[sojourner]

That again is obviously untrue.

Prove it.

 

[serp777]

okay then, so clearly you don't know. So why pretend that you do? Don't say that other things existed directly after the Big Bang if you don't know what existed directly after the Big Bang.

You clearly don't know how evolution works do you?

It's impossible to draw a line.

 

[sojourner]

I did not say I can read Hebrew and Greek. I said I study the Hebrew and Greek texts. Studying is not necessarily reading.

If you're not reading the texts in Hebrew and Greek, you're reading what someone else says the texts say. My point stands. You're not reading the texts.

 

[sojourner]

I would expect nothing less.

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^^^ The "I know you are, but what am I" argument ^^^