Gay marriage is not a Christian topic but Satans deception is...

[floo]

Floo,

Why not? It's a compendium of shorter novellas featuring cast of thousands, from kings to devils and even a talking snake(!), rolling intergenerational narratives of treachery and revenge, unlikely plot devices, and stirring tales of the underdog overcoming supposedly overwhelming odds (think David and Goliath).

Not for nothing was the 1965 epic about the life of Jesus called, "The Greatest Story Ever Told".

How much more novelistic could it be?

'Story' being the operative word.

[bluehillside Retd.]

Floo,

'Story' being the operative word.

Yes, stories are what novels entail.

[floo]

Floo,

Yes, stories are what novels entail.

I think the Harry Potter novels are a better read and just as credible.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

It's a compendium of shorter novellas 

Talk about digging yourself in even deeper.

Please feel free to demonstrate your thesis.

[Owlswing]

I think the Harry Potter novels are a better read and just as credible.

More so if, like yours truly, you happen to be a witch!

[floo]

More so if, like yours truly, you happen to be a witch!

That reminds me my broomstick is still in need of a service. 

[Ricky Spanish]

What if Gay Christians want to Marry?

What would Jesus say?

[floo]

What if Gay Christians want to Marry?

What would Jesus say?

Maybe he would have been in favour of gay marriage, as the guy could have been gay himself for all we know. He never condemned homosexuality.

[Sriram]

Why is such a fuss being made about what is generally believed to be just 5% of the population? Let them be! 

[Shaker]

Why is such a fuss being made about what is generally believed to be just 5% of the population? Let them be!

Ask yourself exactly who has ever made any "fuss."

[Sriram]

Maybe he would have been in favour of gay marriage, as the guy could have been gay himself for all we know. He never condemned homosexuality.

Anyone who does not condemn homosexuality has to be a homosexual?!!!  Where did you get that from?

[Nearly Sane]

Anyone who does not condemn homosexuality has to be a homosexual?!!!  Where did you get that from?

Why are you misrepresenting what Floo said?

[Rhiannon]

What if Gay Christians want to Marry?

What would Jesus say?

'Don't ask me, I'm Jewish'?

[floo]

Anyone who does not condemn homosexuality has to be a homosexual?!!!  Where did you get that from?

Where did I say that anyone who does not condemn homosexuality is homosexual? I don't condemn it and I am heterosexual!

[Robbie]

I understood what you meant floo & so did most I'm sure.
It's just another example of homing in on a comment and twisting it. Happens a lot!

[Sriram]

Where did I say that anyone who does not condemn homosexuality is homosexual? I don't condemn it and I am heterosexual!

Well.....I am sorry Floo! I misunderstood your comment. 

[ippy]

What about in the past when one partner in a gay relationship that could have been for some considerable number of years and one of them was in hospital, I agree things are nowhere as strict as they used to be, but the nursing staff would only allow next of kin to visit how cruel that must have been.

The there are inheritance rights, a lot of gay couples where one of them has died and then the remaining partner has in some cases been turned out on the streets, yet another form of cruelty, now thank goodness the much greater part of our population is now into live and let live mode, you'll always get a few oddballs like some of the religionists on this forum, not all I hasten to add, the best thing is as we are already doing is to sweep around the oddballs and consign them to the ignorant past.

ippy

[ad_orientem]

What if Gay Christians want to Marry?

What would Jesus say?

They don't marry. Instead the carry their cross. Christ tells us God's intentions regarding marriage.

[Owlswing]

'Don't ask me, I'm Jewish'?

BRILLIANT! Even more brilliant coming from a non-Jew!

Please accept this praise from someone born a Jew!

[Owlswing]

That reminds me my broomstick is still in need of a service. 

Call up the ghost of Sir Terry Pratchett for the name of a good dwarf repair man in Ankh-Morpork.

[Owlswing]

They don't marry. Instead the carry their cross. Christ tells us God's intentions regarding marriage.

What - through a bloody medium!

Christ tells us nothing! It all comes from priests who are foillowing their own agenda by interpreting a two-thoiusand year old book.

Things, Ad_O, in case you hadn't noticed, have changed in two thousand years! Including quite a few aspects of Christianity due to the multiferous different interpreations of that beknighted book!

[Robbie]

They don't marry. Instead the carry their cross. Christ tells us God's intentions regarding marriage.

So many people who say that ad_o never have to carry that particular cross, they have always been free to have relationships, marry & have families.
It's easy to sit in judgement on those who are not like us. Perhaps try to put yourself in their shoes,imagine never having the choice of a loving permanent relationship.  It's so harsh.

Owl and Rhiannon, observant Jews have similar views about  homosexual relationships unfortunately. Stuck in a time warp just the same as conservative traditional Christians.

[Owlswing]

Owl and Rhiannon, observant Jews have similar views about  homosexual relationships unfortunately. Stuck in a time warp just the same as conservative traditional Christians.

SOME observant Jews - not all!

And they do not make such a public whoo-ha about it. The keep their negativity within their own community and leave others alone - something that Ad_O and Sassy and others refuse to do! 

[ad_orientem]

What - through a bloody medium!

Christ tells us nothing! It all comes from priests who are foillowing their own agenda by interpreting a two-thoiusand year old book.

Things, Ad_O, in case you hadn't noticed, have changed in two thousand years! Including quite a few aspects of Christianity due to the multiferous different interpreations of that beknighted book!

Then you have never read the gospel, for Christ tells us for which purpose God made man and wonan.

[ad_orientem]

So many people who say that ad_o never have to carry that particular cross, they have always been free to have relationships, marry & have families.
It's easy to sit in judgement on those who are not like us. Perhaps try to put yourself in their shoes,imagine never having the choice of a loving permanent relationship.  It's so harsh.

Owl and Rhiannon, observant Jews have similar views about  homosexual relationships unfortunately. Stuck in a time warp just the same as conservative traditional Christians.

We all have crosses to bear, albeit it of different kinds. That we are called by Christ to do.