First off, let me say that God’s word is alive and is the only book that can be read in the presence of the Author, God. You call me sick, but I pay the price to tell you the truth? You seem to be looking around in the dark for the meaning of life. Look at yourself. Are you not a wonderful creation? Look at the design of your body, and where there is design, then there is a Designer Creator.
You say god's word is alive, and that's your opinion that you're certainly entitled to. You must understand though, that there are people who don't believe the things you believe or that believe different things about god(s). None of you can demonstrate the existence of the god(s) you worship and so people like me find it difficult to hinge our lives on such things as invisible deities especially if it doesn’t match up with observable reality. People like me look around and realize that all we really know for sure is that we get this one life to live and so we should make the best of it for ourselves and everyone else in the time we have on this planet. To me, that doesn't involve condemning consensual adults in consensual relationships with each other, for no other reason than it says so in an ancient text. In my opinion, everyone is entitled to love, and I see nothing sick or evil about it.
I have no idea why you think I'm "looking around in the dark for the meaning of life" - I make my own meaning.
I also do not know what you mean when you declare you are paying some kind of price to tell me the "truth." What price is that?
I am not surprised by people’s hatred towards God. They hated my Lord Jesus Christ before me. My Lord told people the truth and they wanted to kill him. Has anything changed? How I wish I didn’t have to preach Christ’s message, but the love of God drives me on. What should I say to you? Should I not tell you the truth? Should I not warn you of your danger? Is that not loving? Would you prefer I have told you what you wanted to hear to tickle your ears? God is love and is not willing that any should perish.
2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
I think you’re confusing hatred towards god with a simple lack of belief in the god you have chosen to worship. Personally, I see no reason to believe that god exists. Does that mean I hate your god? I don’t know, do I hate fairies because I don’t believe they’re real?
If god is love, then what do you think “he” has a problem with people loving each other?
But at the same time that God is love, He is also a perfect and Holy God of Justice. He demands that sin which is abhorrent to Him, be punished. God cannot change His character. That is why Jesus Christ my Lord lovingly died on the cross, to deal with that, to reconcile us to Himself. There are millions of people now and over the millenniums who thumb their noses at Christ, and live the lives they want to live. They virtually tell Christ to get lost. That is why there is a Day of Judgment coming, on such we must all give an account. Christ died on the cross to facilitate the forgiveness of sins. This is so that people who repent from their sins, can come to Him, have the penalty of their sins dealt with, call Him Lord, and have eternal life.
Of course, you’re allowed to believe whatever you want. Just know, other people don’t necessarily believe it. Unless you can demonstrate to anyone that this god actually exists and wants what you say it wants, we’re not about to base all our laws on the supposed existence of this deity and it’s supposed desires.
People have been awaiting judgment day for centuries now, and all appear to be so certain that it’s going to happen in their lifetimes. And yet here we all are, carrying on as usual. Just one more reason not to believe, from my point of view.
Talking about musty old books, I assume you are referring to the Bible. Let me say that God does not see time as you see time. God is timeless, whereas we operate within time. God’s Word is also timeless and comes with the authority of the Spirit of God.
I have no idea how you think you know this, outside of the musty old book we’re talking about.
Do we really think that a person can reject God because he or she doesn’t like this or that aspect about God? That idea is silly.
Yes, I do. I also think they can reject or not believe in a god for which this is no good evidence.
Do you really think that we can go into a spiritual supermarket and choose a god for ourselves? There is only One God whom we have to get to know. There is no other choice. This God is perfect. If you don’t like Him, then that is your problem, not His.
People do it all the time. And they seem to think they’ve chosen the “right” one to follow. Who knows which the “right” one is, or if any of them are right at all.
People who refuse Christ, send themselves to Hell, because Christ cannot use them. People who habitually covert and protect and promote their sin, hold Jesus Christ up to contempt. Why should He allow such people into His Kingdom? I say, run to Christ, not away from Him.
Christ's Prophet
Certainty for Eternity.
How is someone sending themselves to hell for genuinely not believing in something for which they have no good reason to believe? I do not choose to go to hell, I apparently am sent there for simply not believing, regardless of what kind of life I have led. I’m not sure of any way to force myself to believe something. And I don’t really see what’s moral or perfect or loving about that, but that’s probably a whole other discussion.
Now, I assume you’re saying all this to condemn gay people for living their lives freely and openly which I think in your mind amounts to rejecting or hating the god you personally worship and so they shall end up in hell but you need to understand that people who don’t believe in the god you follow aren’t generally doing it for the reasons you think – they just don’t see any good reason to believe that god even exists, or they worship some other god. They’re just trying to live their lives, like everyone else. And the kind of attitude you espouse toward them isn’t kind or loving or helpful in any way. The kind of attitude you espouse is making the one life we know we get to live, that much harder for them. It’s got to be hard enough trying to live with people like you saying such terrible things to their fellow human beings. Do you not think a gay person should have the right to go about their life without you spouting hateful things about them and telling them there’s something wrong with them? Not to mention that I’m pretty sure that there are plenty of gay people that are members of various churches that see no problem with homosexuality. Maybe they’ve got their version of god right and you’ve got it wrong. Apparently there really isn’t any way to know.
One other thing … if your god hates homosexuality so much, how come we see it so much in the wild, amongst non-human members of the animal kingdom? How did your god allow that to happen? Are those animals simply hateful, rebellious creatures too, rebelling against a god they have no idea about?
Do you think I was born yesterday? "Christ's Prophet", my ***! How arrogant. Go peddle your garbage elsewhere.
