From: muehlhau@en.ecn.purdue.edu (John Muehlhausen)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: Homsexuality and the Bible #2
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:23:55 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

In article <1307@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> corvette@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Jeff Cox) writes:
>I have been reading the articles in the previous posting about this subject.  
>There is something that I would like to add to this discussion. I think that
>many people are missing what is going on here. I am also curious as to what
>many people consider a christian to be. It seems that the question here is 
>wether or not homsexuality is "right or wrong". What I have to say about this
>is that if you are a christian then I ask you to recall this verse:
>
>  "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall
>   not inherit the kingdom of God? Do no be decieved;
>   neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers,
>   nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves,
>   nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
>   nor swindlers, shall not inherit the kingdom
>   of God." 1 cor. 6 9-10
>
>This verse tells us as christians that homsexuality is wrong. You cannot
>go to heaven and be homosexual. I want you to notice that I say this in the
>present tense. For if Jesus Christ is your lord and savior then your sins
>are forgiven. I am not here to say that anyone is inhuman, that anyone is
>worse than another, that I hate you because you are homosexual, that you are
>an evil person because you are homosexual. In fact I have said nothing, I have
>simply typed in the word of God. A homosexual is not inhuman as some try to
>say. A homosexual is very much human, as am I, and deserves the same love that
>every human being deserves. The same respect, the same everything that every
>human deserves. It is not being human that you enter into heaven, though. It 
>is only through the Son that we can enter into heaven. This may sound very
>arrogant and narrow minded to say, but it is not I who say it but he who is
>the king of heaven that does. Homosexuality is wrong in the eyes of God, but
>do not think that it is more wrong than any other sin. It appears that it is
>harder to understand than others, but no more wrong. Now, some will refute 
>the bible as completly true or not. Some will say that this is mistaken
>and that is not. I tell you that it is not possible for the Bible to be 
>wrong. If you are a christian than you should know that God is alive
>and walking the earth. It is only through little faith that one could
>assume that God would let his word altered to mean more or less than what
>it is. For reading the Bible is diff. for reading all other books. When one
>reads the bible God speaks to us. God makes sure what is to be known is known
>I hope that all who read this understands that I am only stating what is said
>in the Bible. Homosexuality is wrong in the eyes of God. It is a sin that wil
>keep you from heaven, as all sins will. Unless you follow Jesus and make him
>your lord heaven is not in your future. You might say that there is now way
>one can really expect one who is homosexual t be able to become "staight".
>I say of course I don't expect you to be able to become "straight
>Every christian knows that when you ask Jesus to be your lord and savior
>that is it is not you who make the changes it is God. Another thing
>to remember is that one must do more than acknowledge that God exists, for
>the devil knows that God exits and he is not in heaven. One must make 
>Jesus your lord.
>

Amen!

John M.
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