Another testimony of Hell!

[MisterLove]

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This huge book of "lessons" having to do with all sorts of things, accumulated over hundreds if not thousands of years, and only six places that homosexuality is even mentioned--and in rather obscure ways.

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IOW, it isn't about what someone OUTSIDE YOURSELF tells you to do or not do; it's about your relationship with God, inwardly, what comes from within yourself at a higher level than your ego. [...]

I had promised myself I wasn't going to post on this thread again, because I know this is a sensitive subject and I don't want to look like a Jesus freak or a zealot.

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You guys raised some really interesting points here and I can't help myself (even though I'm no scholar or theologian).

I couldn't disagree more with MikeW.

When it comes to sin, the number of biblical references is irrelevant. One would have been enough. And the existing references are perfectly clear, especially Leviticus.

Moreover you seem to imply that some sins are less serious than others. According to our laws, some criminal offenses are indeed more serious than others (e.g. murder is worse than theft) but we're talking about divine justice here, not human justice. In God's eyes, all sin is equally detestable. This may seem strange at first but it gives all sinners an equal chance to repent and be saved.

Quotation #2 is pure moral relativism. Pope Francis and Pope Benedict have spoken vehemently against it and rightly so because that's what got us, humans, in trouble to begin with. The Garden of Eden is all about relativism: humans eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and wanting to determine what's right or wrong. It's not for us to decide, we need outside rules to guide us and keep us in order.