Committing homosexual acts may lead to God killing you.

This is my last chance to convince you... thanks for the debate, I've learned a lot. Rebuttals: 1.) "God's mercy is not dependent on how I feel. How I feel changes day to day. God remains the same, as does His mercy." God does make his judgments on how you feel. And because people are capable of repenting, usually his judgment is mercy. However, there are instances in which he decides to end people, which I'll list later. God's mercy does not remain the same: once you are in hell, you have made up your mind for good to be separate from him, therefore it's impossible to be forgiven once in hell. On Earth, if you feel you can't be forgiven, it is the same way. 2.) "Can a 5 year old refuse forgiveness and get struck down?..We have to take into account other factors like God's patience." As I stated earlier, ignorance can be an excuse (not for homosexual sex though) in some cases. The age of reason is one. Plus, I don't know of too many instances where 5 year old boys (or girls) "did it" together. Remember, we are talking about one sin in particular, homosexual intimacy. Yes, take into account God's patience I get it. But realize it HAS a boiling point. The people of Sodom, they could've said the next day, "Hey, lets stop molesting men." That's what you argue. And that's true. But God's patience was tried, so he killed them. 3.) "Exodus does not prove that God is in the business of plagues. It just shows that He can do plagues..." As a matter of fact He is in the business. Another instance in which God was near destroying a city was in the book of Jonah. "...'Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed.' " (Jonah 3:4). As you know, the people of Nineveh repent, and God did not carry out it's destruction. You may think this scenario is on your side, but it proves that God IS in the business! He was about to do a repeat of Sodom. If anything, this story proves my mercy/justice argument. God can and was about to exert justice, but his merciful side won over. But remember, God was about to destroy Nineveh. The fact that he was, and remember God is never wrong, proves he is in the business. When Jesus does not rain down fire from the heavens on the town, it is just another act of mercy from God. That's it. Not proof for your argument. 4.) "Don't let a person's sin get in the way of God's immense patience to that person come to know Him." Your whole round 3 is intensely based on God's overwhelming patience. Don't worry, I'm about to show you instances where it ran out, and he killed those who sinned. Also, you keep pushing scenarios such as 5 year-olds who don't know what a sin is and people who love God but have mental problems. I'm with you. God will grant mercy to them, I agree. But please maintain focus on homosexual sex. Everyone without severe mental problems should know that homosexual sex is wrong. That's why they who commit this sin have a much higher suicide rate. That's why they are always looking for acceptance in this society: because they know what they do is wrong. 5.) You quote this bible verse: "Know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified." (Galatians 2:16). My response: "My brothers, what good is it to profess faith without practicing it? Such faith has no power to save one, has it?..So it is with the faith that does nothing in practice. It is thoroughly lifeless... do you want proof, you ignoramus [I find this funny], that without works faith is idle? Was not Abraham justified by his works when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? There you see proof that faith was both assisting his works and implemented by his works...be assured, then, that faith without works is dead as a body without breath." (James 2: 14-15, 17, 20-22, 26) To clarify the text, you cannot say "I love and believe in God" and then go break his law by committing murder, stealing, homosexual sex, or other grave sins. It is a contradiction to what you are saying. When you have gay sex, your "faith without works [works meaning NOT having homosexual sex] is dead." James 2:26 6.) Your argument that parents brainwashing their kids to believe homosexual sex is fine is not a proper use of ignorance. Unless you have an IQ of twenty, you know that homosexual sex is unnatural, judging by how it is looked down upon and how the produce reaped is nothing but STDs. 7.) "The fact is we are all deserving of death because we're all sinners...We're all going to get killed by God. We're lucky enough to have this time on Earth. It's not like we get that long here anyway." We all deserve death, what I'm arguing is that God can choose if whether or not a homosexual deserves death sooner. Yes, we are lucky enough to have this time on Earth. We know an afterlife is coming. But let's face it: we don't want to die. If a murder pointed a gun at you, would you be happy because you were leaving the world? I wouldn't. Personally, I want to maximize my time on Earth as much as possible. After all, it is a gift from God. It is a punishment for God to take it, then replace your soul to Hell. (It'd wouldn't be so bad though if you are a martyr, cause you go to heaven right after.) So yes, we are all going to die, question is when? Many people, probably you, too, would hope it would be many years down the road.) 8.)"Can you give me an example of God striking down someone for disobeying this commandment, or even the Sabbath?" 1.Sodom, direct death from God. 2.Rich man in the Luke 12:16-21 parable. Although it is a parable, God speaks of taking the life from the man. 3.Lot's wife 4.Floods that killed Egyptian army 5.Nadab and Abihu, you offered offensive incense. Killed by fire. 6.Huge numbers of Israelites in Leviticus and Numbers after disobeying God. 7.The ten princes of Israel who were sent to scout but reported badly. 8.Uzzah, touching the arc to prevent it from tipping 9.Herod, struck down by angel for failing to praise God. 10.Ananias and Sapphira, for lying, killed by divine intervention. 11.All of my modern day examples, such as Hitler, but you won't believe those. Never mind. These and many more can be found on this article from Wikipedia [1]. I know Wikipedia is not a reliable source, but you'll find that the all bible verses it uses for reference are correct. There is your examples that you requested. 9.)"And whether its now or later - it's still a vapour: here for a moment then gone." When God kills you directly, you go to Hell. If he doesn't kill you directly, you have a chance. So your vapor argument is down, because it has an extension of eternity in heaven or hell. 10.)"For a homosexual that's found Christ, they will be saved and protected by the blood of Christ - but will eventually die like everyone else." Those you don't find Christ will not be saved and protected by the blood of Christ- they will eventually die like much different from others. The people and Sodom were killed by raining fire. Me and you probably won't. 11.)"Hitler wasn't stuck down by God for his sin...Which was carried out in the name of Allah btw, who to equate to the God of Christianity is almost blasphemy. If Hitler was so bad, why didn't God end his life with an "Allahu Akbar"? I'll tell you why, because God doesn't take people out." 12.)The Hitler one is disputable, like I said I'm not even sure. God of Christianity and God of Islam are the same. We have different interpretations. And God does take people out, I just gave you plenty of proof. 13.)True, Katrina is not evidence of God at work. It is my presumption. But man does not have dominion over the Earth, God still does. Conclusion: God's agenda is saving people, but when they refused to be saved, his agenda is justice. Sources: 1.http://rationalwiki.org...