Gay marriage, Polygamy and individual liberty.Anyone familar with my "beliefs" should know I feel about this, but hey, feel free to comment.
(Feel Free to comment why you think marriage should be relagated to 2 people of opposite sex, if you want, of course if you involve the R world, we
shall have to involve "History" ,
Here,
here,
here (damn perverts!),
damn you david,
Damn you! ,
Also here,
here,
keep house,
also don't have lots of, non-isralite wives/concubines,
lots of kids- I'm sure god doesn't mind! ,
blahblah love, etc.)
But hey,
what can you do?Oh wait, that's all
Old Testament.
All the christians should be following the
New Testament, which involves such gems:
Luke Chapter 6:41 "And why do you look athe speck in your brother's eye, but do not percieve the plank in your own eye"?
(Hell, just read all of chapter 6)
Or Matthew Chapter 5, which involves such other gems:
27: You have heard that iwas said to those of old (NT) "you shall not commit adultery"
28: "But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her already commited adultery with her in his heart"
30: "And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; (etc)
31: "Furthermore it has been said, "Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce"
32: "But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery"
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44: But I say to you, love your enemies (This includes me!), bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and presecute you"
Now, in most of the bible, there's nothing about gay people, as above, it's all about the straights.
But divorce isn't illegal, nor is adultery (per se).
Also, the "good samaritin" in the modern age would be like oh, I dunno, an Iraqi stopping in some "american setting" to help some white american who had been robbed and left for dead, while all the other white americans passed him by.
Of course, in those days, the samarians were descended from peoples "imported" from the north when Israel was conquered by by Assyria. (That being ~800-700 BC, then of course the Romans came along and around ~100BC they were allowed to practice their religion, so by the time Jesus apprently rolled around the jews didn't like them very much.)
That's where the term "good samaritin" comes from. So next time you think "good samaritin" thing back to the 50-60's in america, and of a black man helping a white man who'd just been beaten up by a bunch of other white men)
But wait!
Matthew 5:17
"Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fufill"
18: For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away (whatever that means), one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fufilled"
19: "Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven(but they still get in?); but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
But wait again! Read
Hebrews chapter 8(Hebrew's was writen ~80AD, or could have been written as late as 96AD or
as early as before 70ad)What the hell is going on here?
So which is it, do you ignore everything from the OT and just use the NT?
So which of the four Gospels is the most correct? Which of the contradictions (If you want i'll go through and find them all and list 'em for you) is the right version? Why are the other ones wrong? etc.