Committing homosexual acts may lead to God killing you.

Sodom and Gomorrah is an easy example because it presents a case of sin = punishment. The Old Testament is full of accounts of God serving justice, including, the flood, the Israelites that looked into the arc of the covenant, etc. It didn"t matter who they were, whether a King: turned into an animal, or a prophet"s servant, who took gold he shouldn"t have and was cursed with leprosy. When Job was stricken by Satan (allowed by God), he was given no closure. He didn"t see or hear the discussion Satan had with God behind closed doors, nor is it revealed to him at the end. In other words, God does what he wants. Everything: the devil, the world, Job " everything revolves around God. The fact is we all deserve death. Some would say it was unjust that God hardened Pharaohs heart. But Pharaoh didn"t deserve life, nor do we, so who are we to question what God does. Does the clay question the maker? Nevertheless, I do not think its in Gods nature to kill people just to showcase justice. After the flood God said: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." (Genesis 8:21-22) And in Matthew 5 Jesus said: He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. God is not in the business of sending plagues; in actual fact God loves people. If God played a part in Orlando, it was only because God plays a part in everything. He loved everyone that was shot down in that club, and I would argue, He did not want them dead at that point. ""God" wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:4). ""the Lord" is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." (2 Peter 3:9) You bring it back to the law in your argument and reference both the moral law and the judicial law side by side. Some of those laws were only applicable to their culture and time. Obviously we do make sacrifices any longer because the ultimate sacrifice has been made at the cross. Furthermore, the law was for the Jews not the gentiles (with minor exceptions). More than likely if we lived back then, we would be part of the pagan world. So its not like we can apply all of that law to our lives. We"re not Jews. However it does say in Timothy, the law is good for instruction. It"s there to help us, not to live by. If we try to live by it, we will die by it. In Romans 2 it says: "indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the Law, do by nature what the Law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the Law, since they show that the work of the Law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts either accusing or defending them." So you would have to argue that all those that commit homosexual acts have a conscience that accuses them. Can you 100% say that in every case and every culture and in every scenario, the conscience will always accuse them? If it defends them then they will be cleared and not be fatally judged. You go on to say that God has never refuted the law. Your implied conclusion is that it"s still in effect today. The issue is that you totally missed the Jesus link. Jesus said that it is now a heart issue; its no longer about wether you did or didn"t commit a sexual act, like the adulteress about to get stones, it"s about the heart condition. If you hate him then its like you"ve murdered him in your heart. "But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 You finish your argument with a false dichotomy, justice or mercy. One reason a sinner will not face fatal judgment is because we are all sinners. "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:8). Homosexuality acts constitutes sin, but we are all sinners. Where does that leave us? It leaves us with the third option: Grace! Grace, by Jesus, will see a man who commits sin cleansed and avoid fatal punishment. Side note on Mary: In terms of your small deviation towards Mary"s sinlessness before the birth of Jesus I would say this. This idea comes straight from Church tradition, as you are probably aware, as does the concept of the trinity. I would argue that there"s more scriptural evidence for the trinity than the Immaculate Conception. It"s not an issue I"m well informed on. At best you could argue for an equivalency with Enoch (who was not because God took him), or Elijah (who was taken away in a chariot of fire). Romans seems to indicate however, that no one is righteous, not even one.