Romans 1:26-27
“Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
Clearly homosexuality is wrong according to the bible. Sorry, you simply aren’t going to convince a fundamentalist to agree let LGBT folk be, when you have quotes like this in the book. Saying “jesus said love” isn’t going to do it. Best strategy is the one that has been working. Education, so that people don’t take religion so seriously or literally.
Dude this is what I’m SAYING all the time. The only possible valid collection of the Christian Bible is the parts quoting Jesus. Everything after is fan fiction and blatant manipulation.
You don’t have to study Christianity deeply to realize it is wrong. I was like 8 years old in catechism and remember thinking “Hey wait a minute… Jesus keeps saying not to worship him, isn’t that what we’re literally doing? Shouldn’t we all be some form of Jewish if we want to follow Jesus’ words?”
I mean… there’s a substantial difference between agreeing with a lifestyle, and persecuting that lifestyle. I assume you aren’t currently picketing churches and harassing religious people, for example. The Bible is clear that an abundance of things are sinful, but Jesus consistently sets an example of loving prostitutes and tax collectors and Roman soldiers and everyone else Jews of that day hated.
So what this tweet is claiming is absolutely valid, the New Testament is immensely clear you should love everyone, and you shouldn’t give “fundamentalists” a biblical pass for ignoring one of the most fundamental points the Bible makes, in hopes that they’ll be willing to completely discard religion. They should be educated on their own damn book, and it’s perfectly reasonable to call them on that.
I blame that damn council of Nicaea for grouping so many random books together. As far as I’m concerned Marcion’s writings are the only cannon I would recognize. But seeing as it’s almost completely lost, I’ll have to be satisfied with ONLY the books of Luke and Acts from the Lexham English Bible translation.
If I’m feeling particularly frisky I’ll include the infancy gospel of Thomas and the gospel of Judas…
To me, it seems that every other book in the currently accepted biblical canon was written purely out of Apologetics. “oh shoot I need to justify my opinion… Oh look I found a new book that fits my agenda” then they said “Contradictions? No, [insert book/verse here] was written for X target audience so it doesn’t apply here. My book is relevant to you!”
Please, dick going up a butthole fits too perfectly for it to not be natural. Same goes for sucking. What they are referring to is the Roman practice of grooming children. Having a sexual relationship with a boy you adopted is unnatural.
You’re right, the Bible is full of contradictions, which I believe is fully on purpose, so that the devout can point to all the times God says love and say “look, my religion is one of love, my God is a god of love!” And then use that to justify committing all the other heinous act condoned in the Bible.
We won’t ever know for sure but treating the contradictions in the Bible as intentional is probably giving more credit to the people who initially created it than they deserve.
More likely, they just just didn’t really plan it out and instead shit was added piecemeal over time ultimately leaving a lot of contradictions.
Anyways, it seems much more likely that this happened organically rather than being intentional.
Romans 1:26-27 “Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.”
Clearly homosexuality is wrong according to the bible. Sorry, you simply aren’t going to convince a fundamentalist to agree let LGBT folk be, when you have quotes like this in the book. Saying “jesus said love” isn’t going to do it. Best strategy is the one that has been working. Education, so that people don’t take religion so seriously or literally.
There is no “the bible”. It’s a subjective collection of texts. While lots of people worship Paul as if he were a god, he’s not actually Jesus.
Dude this is what I’m SAYING all the time. The only possible valid collection of the Christian Bible is the parts quoting Jesus. Everything after is fan fiction and blatant manipulation.
You don’t have to study Christianity deeply to realize it is wrong. I was like 8 years old in catechism and remember thinking “Hey wait a minute… Jesus keeps saying not to worship him, isn’t that what we’re literally doing? Shouldn’t we all be some form of Jewish if we want to follow Jesus’ words?”
I mean… there’s a substantial difference between agreeing with a lifestyle, and persecuting that lifestyle. I assume you aren’t currently picketing churches and harassing religious people, for example. The Bible is clear that an abundance of things are sinful, but Jesus consistently sets an example of loving prostitutes and tax collectors and Roman soldiers and everyone else Jews of that day hated.
So what this tweet is claiming is absolutely valid, the New Testament is immensely clear you should love everyone, and you shouldn’t give “fundamentalists” a biblical pass for ignoring one of the most fundamental points the Bible makes, in hopes that they’ll be willing to completely discard religion. They should be educated on their own damn book, and it’s perfectly reasonable to call them on that.
I blame that damn council of Nicaea for grouping so many random books together. As far as I’m concerned Marcion’s writings are the only cannon I would recognize. But seeing as it’s almost completely lost, I’ll have to be satisfied with ONLY the books of Luke and Acts from the Lexham English Bible translation.
If I’m feeling particularly frisky I’ll include the infancy gospel of Thomas and the gospel of Judas…
To me, it seems that every other book in the currently accepted biblical canon was written purely out of Apologetics. “oh shoot I need to justify my opinion… Oh look I found a new book that fits my agenda” then they said “Contradictions? No, [insert book/verse here] was written for X target audience so it doesn’t apply here. My book is relevant to you!”
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Please, dick going up a butthole fits too perfectly for it to not be natural. Same goes for sucking. What they are referring to is the Roman practice of grooming children. Having a sexual relationship with a boy you adopted is unnatural.
You’re right, the Bible is full of contradictions, which I believe is fully on purpose, so that the devout can point to all the times God says love and say “look, my religion is one of love, my God is a god of love!” And then use that to justify committing all the other heinous act condoned in the Bible.
We won’t ever know for sure but treating the contradictions in the Bible as intentional is probably giving more credit to the people who initially created it than they deserve.
More likely, they just just didn’t really plan it out and instead shit was added piecemeal over time ultimately leaving a lot of contradictions.
Anyways, it seems much more likely that this happened organically rather than being intentional.