cristiano said:No, I won't, because the Bible does not teach it. Racism is a crime. Homosexuality is not a crime, but God reproves it (got it now????). But with people like you, inside the Church, I will disagree, won't respect, and fight (verbally, only verbally), because of my faith and love in Jesus and his Word.
I appreciate the fact that, despite our very deep theological differences, your hatred of me extends only verbally and not physically. Despite the fact that I think your theology is horrendously flawed, I do not believe in physical retaliation either.
On the simple idea that the invisible Church is not divided at all, despite the "visible" divisions. God always has kept it in History, through the work of the reformists, for example.
If you think my reasons are illogicals and weaks, so yours for me. In fact, if you still want that picture drawed for you better understanding that I don't hate homosexuals ("homophobic" for me is hate, and I don't hate them), even when I disagree about homosexuality with them...
You accept the idea that reformists can exist. As such, you also accept the idea that Christianity is apt to corrupted theology in need of reformation. I am merely a reformist in a logical line of reformers.
The fact is that you cannot refute anything that I say, short of losing your temper and touting me as a "false prophet." You also cannot logically defend theology against homosexuality outside of vague Biblical texts that can be explained through textual analysis, through history, and through logic. When you state that homosexuality is an illness, for example, you are willfully ignoring decades of research that has stated otherwise. As such, you can either say that the Bible is wrong, or you say, as I have proven adequately, that we merely did not understand what was actually written in the Bible in the first place. Understanding it in the proper context of idolatry, prostitution, and pederasty would sufficiently explain why science has long since contradicted the traditional interpretation of the Bible on the subject of homosexuality.
As such, this is within the logical role of a reformist. You know that within your theological studies that there's only one requirement for salvation, at least according to late-derivative Calvinist theology: an acceptance of Jesus as the Savior. The burden of sin upon the entire humanity is so great that we are incapable of saving ourselves, and that it is through the grace of Jesus Christ that we are saved at all.
Nothing that I have said above negates the logical existence of gay Christians. Within different Christian denominations, there are going to be differences in what specifically constitutes sin. However, rather than nitpicking and condemning those who share a different theological position of what constitutes sin, we are freed through the grace of Jesus Christ, who will save us in spite of it.
To hone in and focus on homosexuality as an especially grievous sin worthy of condemnation (which you are essentially doing) is to negate that above position and to, essentially, disprove the entire foundation of Protestantism--that it is faith, not good works, that save us.
This is where I call you on your prejudices. There is no logical position to support what you believe regarding homosexuality. Not Biblically. Not theologically. Not through logic, reason, or blatant fact--all of which are representations of God's will.
Melon