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BonoVoxSupastar said:
I come from a very conservative Christian background. So I know exactly where this is coming from. The problem is the church. They aren't teaching the context of the scriptures and they are telling you that you can take any verse and use it as truth. The truth is this couldn't be further from the truth. And the ugly truth is that the church doesn't want to teach the context or want you to research the context because deep down people oppose what they don't understand. And it's easier to make homosexuality a sin.
This type of teaching and thinking produces folks like AEON who can produce a lot of verses but knows very little of the context.
True. Very true.
I guess even though my church is conservative in practice and in it's belief in the entire Bible as the word of God, what makes it different from other conservative denominations is the members are allowed (and encouraged) to study the Bible for themselves and the church doesn't place so much pressure on the members to conform to exactly what the "standard" line is. At least that's how it seems to me and I've really come to appreciate it.
That bit about "deep down people oppose what they don't understand. And it's easier to make a homosexuality a sin." is a very powerful and very good point. I think all Christians need to think good and hard about that.
Wouldn't it be funny if we were both from the same denomination and didn't know it though?