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Aug. 16th, 2007 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowangolightlySomething my dearly beloved Capi posted that needs to be shared.
She and some others of my friends, such as Br.William and Lady Niniane and others I could name, exemplify what Christianity should be in my book...loving, hard-working, non-judgmental and above all, LOVING.
She gave me permission to share this and I'm copying her text since it's f-locked:
The lady who sent me that email (fwd) about homosexuals and the church yesterday responded to me with a *loving* list of reasons (Biblical list) that i should review (just in case i'd not read my Bible) so i would know better in the future, why she was correct in her position. At first, i merely did not want to engage her, but upon thinking on it overnight.... here is my response to her.
I merely side-stepped the issue of whether or not homosexuality is a sin or not; it's a very tangled issue, and not the main issue in my book.
"I don't know you, nor do you know me. It is not my desire to guess where you are in your walk with the Lord, nor to challenge how great is your faith. I do not presume to judge you; that is for God alone.
Yes, i've read His Word, and i believe every word. I believe we are all sinners and every single one of us have sinned. I have noticed that He spends a LOT more time telling us how much He despises, for example, lying, than He spends on homosexuality. I've done comparison studies. Wow, He REALLY must not like lying. And all of us have lied. Every last one of us.
I believe it's the SIN, however, that He loathes, not the sinner. I think this is about hating the sin, not the sinner. Yet the church continues to revile the homosexual. I don't think the church focuses on the sin in this case, but on the person. We shun homosexuals, we persecute them, we do all manner of hate crimes on their person.... all in the name of Christ. I cannot support that
Jesus summed up the law in two brief statements, saying we must love God above all things, and love one another above ourselves. And that means EVERYONE. Homosexuals are just as much my neighbor as my husband, my best friend, my offspring, my pastor, that alcoholic living under the overpass, that ex-con who was released from prison two weeks ago, that shut-in who lives alone and pines for someone to visit her, and a host of other forgotton souls that we refuse to see as we hurry on our way not to be late to church.
I believe it is time for the church to wake up and really begin to live the lives of love Christ wanted us to lead two thousand years ago.
Your sister,
Now I'm really getting offa the time-sucking computer!
She and some others of my friends, such as Br.William and Lady Niniane and others I could name, exemplify what Christianity should be in my book...loving, hard-working, non-judgmental and above all, LOVING.
She gave me permission to share this and I'm copying her text since it's f-locked:
The lady who sent me that email (fwd) about homosexuals and the church yesterday responded to me with a *loving* list of reasons (Biblical list) that i should review (just in case i'd not read my Bible) so i would know better in the future, why she was correct in her position. At first, i merely did not want to engage her, but upon thinking on it overnight.... here is my response to her.
I merely side-stepped the issue of whether or not homosexuality is a sin or not; it's a very tangled issue, and not the main issue in my book.
"I don't know you, nor do you know me. It is not my desire to guess where you are in your walk with the Lord, nor to challenge how great is your faith. I do not presume to judge you; that is for God alone.
Yes, i've read His Word, and i believe every word. I believe we are all sinners and every single one of us have sinned. I have noticed that He spends a LOT more time telling us how much He despises, for example, lying, than He spends on homosexuality. I've done comparison studies. Wow, He REALLY must not like lying. And all of us have lied. Every last one of us.
I believe it's the SIN, however, that He loathes, not the sinner. I think this is about hating the sin, not the sinner. Yet the church continues to revile the homosexual. I don't think the church focuses on the sin in this case, but on the person. We shun homosexuals, we persecute them, we do all manner of hate crimes on their person.... all in the name of Christ. I cannot support that
Jesus summed up the law in two brief statements, saying we must love God above all things, and love one another above ourselves. And that means EVERYONE. Homosexuals are just as much my neighbor as my husband, my best friend, my offspring, my pastor, that alcoholic living under the overpass, that ex-con who was released from prison two weeks ago, that shut-in who lives alone and pines for someone to visit her, and a host of other forgotton souls that we refuse to see as we hurry on our way not to be late to church.
I believe it is time for the church to wake up and really begin to live the lives of love Christ wanted us to lead two thousand years ago.
Your sister,
Now I'm really getting offa the time-sucking computer!
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Date: 2007-08-16 04:31 pm (UTC)She needs this icon.
She's my kind of people!
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Date: 2007-08-17 04:45 pm (UTC)People who preach forgiveness and "judge not..." then throw it out the window and hate and revile people who sin.
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