The Bible Says Homosexuals Live an Acceptable Lifestyle

"You've misinterpreted the scripture and are using it to advance the intolerant social agenda against gays. Leviticus is a holiness code written 3,000 years ago. This code includes many outdated sexual laws." Not exactly. I believe the folly is not mine for accepting these scriptures as valid, but yours for denying their credibility. 2 Tim. 3:16--- "All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness," Yes, this does in fact include the Leviticus, and the rest of the Old Testament for that matter. But wait... Does this mean we can't play football anymore? I mean, after all it is MY favorite sport... Of course we can play football. Yes, the Bible does outlaw playing with pig skin, but laws of this type are no longer needed today. Wait a minute... I just said that "all scripture is...useful...", but now im saying some of it is outdated? Yes, but only when GOD HIMSELF makes it outdated. Actions such as playing with a pig skin, or touching a woman on her period would make you unclean back in the days of the Old Testament. There were also ritual washings and sprinklings of holy objects in the Tabernacle, in order to make them CLEAN. When people did such thinds as play with pig skin or touch a woman on her period, they had to undergo a cleansing process. After so long of doing suh and such, they would be clean, but THEY HAD TO WORK TO MAKE THEMSELVES CLEAN. When baptism took the place of circumcision, this all changed. The greek word for baptism is "bap-TEEZ-mos", and it means ritual washing, ablution. God designed beptism as a means to offer cleansing. When baptism was instituted, it caused many of the laws in the Old Testament to become outdated simply because "uncleaness" was no longer an issue. In short, baptism voided laws concerning "uncleaness". The Bible has nothing to say redeeming homosexuality after condemning it in such a way, however. Take for example these scriptures out of the NEW TESTAMENT. 1 TIM. 1:9-10--- "...knowing that th law is not made for the righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for the sinners, for the unholy and profane, for muderers of fathers and muderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, FOR SODOMITES, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine," Note that Sodomites in particular make the list of lawless and insubordinate. Jude 7--- "as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after STRANGE flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengance of eternal fire." You say that Sodom and Gomorrah were not destroyed for their homosexual behavior? This verse accuses them of seeking after STRANGE flesh. Strange meaning not what God designed them to seek after. Here, I like this next verse. 1 CORINTHIANS 6:9-10--- "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be decieved. Neither fornicartors, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor HOMOSEXUALS, nor SODOMITES,nor theives, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God." This verse say PLAINLY that sodomites and homosexuals WILL NOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. Thats pretty strong language there. Note that the verse also includes adulterers, implying that the unfaithful in marraige will not enter. If God considered homosexuality a legitimate marraige, then they also would be covered in the term "adulterer". Homosexuals are not Biblically supported though, and the sin is quite severe. Not only does the Bible condemn homosexuality, but to back that up, you can look through the WHOLE Bible and never find one verse supporting it. As for your arguments about sexual orientation being a choice or not, I have little to say. I believe that people are born with a sexual orientation for whatever reason, and I believe that because of the sinfulness of man and the totally depraved state of the world, some are born with the sinful lust for, as the Bible puts it, strange flesh. There are however many cases in which Christians have overcome the sin of homosexuality with help from God, and fellow Christians. Homosexuality is not irreversable. Another point I would like to make concerns your comment "Why would God condemn his own children in the way that he made them? I am a Bisexual American and I did nothing wrong but be born this way. I doubt that my God condemns the way he created me." God does not make people homosexual. How could He? He condemns it so vehemently in the Bible and says that people involved in such a sin do not enter the kingdom of heaven. It is because we, by sinning in the garden, brought sin into the world. Sin tarnishes everything. We see signs of this in everyday life. It is our own fault that things like homosexuality are part of this world. If you could, please support your next argument scripurally. Thanks! Renzzy