I think homosexuals have a right to be able to get married. The only argument people have against gay marriage is that "it's against the bible". This is why that is a bad argument: the bible was written by man, not God. And the men who wrote the bible wanted people to reproduce so their religion would grow and become more powerful than other religions. They added that no man shall lay with another man thinking that they could force homosexuals to lay with the opposite sex and reproduce for their cause. That's the reason the bible is against homosexuality; for power through population. What do you think the crusades were?
Nowadays the world surely doesn't need a larger population. The earth is actually overpopulated and that is one of the major causes of our damaged environment, poverty, slums, hunger, disease, and such throughout the world. So I say shame on Octomom and people who reproduce in mass amounts. Praise to the homosexuals and couples with two or less children.
There is nothing wrong with homosexuality and here's a question for those who blindly follow the word of the bible: if the bible is against homosexuality why did God create homosexuals. And if you believe homosexuality is a choice why did God give them the ability to choose?
Think about that and when you're done thinking, here is the answer:
The bible was written by man, not God. The people who wrote the bible don't know any more about the will of God than you do. So stop blindly following the written words of another man and follow your own beliefs. Interperate the will of God for yourself. Think freely.
PS I take no stance on the existance of God. If you believe in God interperate His will for yourself. If you donnot believe in God then likewise donnot blindly follow the will of another man, agree with other people's morals only if YOU agree with them not just because OTHER people agree. Think freely.
It's hard to take any argument seriously when it begins with blanket statements about the bible that it's not even worth reading the rest of the post.
The bible was written by man, not God.
Ah! But here is the impasse. You live in a false natural/supernatural dichotomous world. I have a narrative of redemption, not progress, and that narrative moves from slavery to inheritance.
The people who wrote the bible don't know any more about the will of God than you do.
Christianity has been around for 2,000 years and biblical doctrines have been well established and debated serving as the explanation for a Christian belief system. God used people, used councils, brought knowledge to the scripture and we understand the scripture pretty well now because of God working through people, through theologians, in the past to further our understanding of the truth.
As an example, the doctrine of the Trinity has been the orthodox, mainstream position for 1,700 years. It crosses all denominational lines. So when that many great minds of such diversity agree that something is the most biblical, then you have good reason to think it is sound doctrine, and you have good reason to be skeptical of positions which oppose it.
So stop blindly following the written words of another man...Think freely.
Avoiding that doesn't free you from bias. Such as personal bias, ignorance, sin, cultural bias, etc.
and follow your own beliefs.
I imagine eventually the biblical concept of the God being triune would have been understood, but, Christian doctrine explains said belief and dropping the explanation for our belief seems a little nonsensical.
Interperate the will of God for yourself.
This is also a great way to form a cult. If everyone, no matter their level of biblical literacy, just came up with their own interpretation of the scriptures, we'd have chaos. You see that in many countries where missionaries simply converted tribes and then took off.
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