Wow, I've hardly ever even posted in these boards! But I love debates and I just had to jump into this one! This response to what people have been saying is going to be long, and may get me in trouble...but it will be worth it!
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I know that God didn't write the bibble, poepld did.
In a way, God did write the Bible because he spoke to the people and told them what to write. The Bible is the Word of God, not the word of man. God made sure that all of his laws and commandments got written in the Bible to be passed down from generation to generation...and He would have never allowed anything that was just made up by somebody to be put in the scriptures. If you don't think God would have been able to stop someone from adding his own stuff to the Bible, well then you doubt the powers of the Creator of the universe. God made those laws to protect us, like stungun was saying, and he expects us to follow his laws...even if we think we'll be alright and won't get into trouble if we break them.
It's sad that many people are saying the whole "homosexuality is a sin" thing was just thrown in the Bible by people who were afraid of homosexuals because they were different. People are always trying to find an excuse to use so they can justify their sin and make it look okay. The Bible said that
one day, evil would be looked upon as good, and good would be looked upon as evil. Homosexuals are being looked as the good people, while Christians are the evil biggots who don't want the homosexuals to be who they are and be happy. I'm not saying that gays aren't good people, I'm just saying that they are defying God, whether society believes it or not, or whether they believe it or not. And while the world keeps telling them to continue to be who they want to be, Christians seem to be the only ones who stand up and tell them the truth, even though we know the world will hate us for it. Also, there is no birth defect that makes a person gay. Science has been trying to prove the existence of a "Gay Gene", but the more they try, the more evidence they find that shows no such gene exists. People say that gays can't help who they are, but they only say this after they hear it on the news, or some gay person tells it to them. The TRUTH is, gays can help who they are. Ask any scientist.
Remember, Satan is always trying to deceive people into thinking the wrong thing is really the right thing. He is the father of all lies. He even gets people to think they are doing God a service, when they are actually going up against His will. I noticed a link in Jaivaz's signature that says
An essay with facts of many of the horrid things done in the name of god. I know Javaiz is trying to use that essay to bring Christians down, but really it's a good example of how Satan has decieved religions into thinking they were doing God a service by killing people who were differen't from them. Even Christians were once put to death in the name of God. Religious leaders who followed God, but did not believe Jesus Christ was the Messiah...persecuted the Christians, tortured them, and put them to death in the "in the name of God." All of them were being decieved into thinking they were doing God a great service. Even Jesus himself was put to death "in the name of God". But little did they know, he was God, and rose from the dead three days afterward!
Now, back to the whole homosexual thing. Satan has been trying to turn the whole world against Christians. People hate Christians because they won't except the way things are becoming. However, the Bible has been warning us about these things for 2,000 years!
They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather then the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion. (Romans 1:25-27)
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It was stated that god wants us to choose our own path, correct? So why is this path (that we are natrually born into) so wrong? Why are going to go to hell if your gay?
God "allows" us to choose our own path and there are MANY paths he does not want us to take, but he also does not want to control people like robots. If people want to choose the wrong path that goes against what God says and face the consequences later, then that's their choice. And once again, people are not born with a defect that makes them gay...scientists say they have never found ANY evidence of this.
That's about all I can think to say on this matter. I'm sure I'll probably get a harsh response or PM from somebody. Oh well!