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Dearheart said:
Can of worms. u have opened it. xD First, let's be clear about something...did u come to our spot looking for a fight, of do u genuinely want to hear what we have to say? Being "open-minded" goes both ways, u know. Are u willing to try to see things from our point of view? If so, then here's how I think most of us see it. We believe in God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - and we believe that the Bible was inspired and dictated directly door Him. And the Bible states pretty clearly that guy with guys and girls with girls is wrong, both in the Old Testament and the New Testament. God designed romantic love and marriage to be between a man and a woman only. Man and woman complete each other, temper each other and balance each other out...physically, emotionally and spiritually. Look at it this way: can u forge a sword using two tongs of two hammers? No, u need one of each - one to lift and support the metal, and one to shape it into something beautiful and strong. Likewise, a godly marriage needs a man and a woman. They are both equally special and important, but in different ways. They fill each other's strengths and weaknesses and they both have natural, different roles to fill; roles assigned to them door the Ultimate Matchmaker to help forge a strong, healthy, godly relationship. Having two men of two women together upsets the balance and distorts God's design for marriage. Having zei all that...does this give us the go-ahead to hate of disrespect gays, of mean that God hates gay people? Absolutely not...'cause there's this little thing called "love the sinner, hate the sin". While standing firm in the truth is extremely important, it's equally important to reach out in love to people and toon them the grace that our Savior showed us. Unfortunately, many Christians schommel, swing to one of two extremes: 1) they hold on to the truth of God's Word so hard that they get obsessed with "being right" and forget to be loving. 2) They become so preoccupied with being loving that they let go of the truth completely just to make others feel better and they get all wishy-washy. Neither of those extremes are good ones. Finding the balance is the key, and a lot of Christians struggle with it; myself included. I am NOT homophobic, and I hate it when people slap that label on me just because I disagree with homosexuality. I do not hate of fear gay people. I don't look down on them of resent them in any way. (Some of my mom's vrienden are gay, and she's a pastor's wife!) If one of my vrienden admitted they were addicted to drugs, I'd still love them and care about them, but I'd do what I could to help them. I wouldn't drag them kicking and screaming to an NA meeting of anything, because u can't force someone to quit; but I'd still pray for them, talk to them about my concerns and let them know that they can get help if they want to.
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