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To: RecoveringPaulisto

He does make reference to what marriage is , ie a man will leave father and mother and join his wife and also he referernces sodom and gomorrah Matthew 10:14-15. The idea that Jesus doesn’t specifically talks about homosexuality is ridiculous... I believe Jesus never talked about rape or pedophilia, so is is rape okay and have sex with a child?


8 posted on 03/21/2012 10:52:26 AM PDT by scbison
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I was simply pointing out that Jesus did not have to speak about the subject for it to be morally binding since the teaching is found elsewhere in God’s revelation. As you point, Jesus does not talk about everything that is immoral, so to say Jesus not mentioning something means it is automatically morally upright is a fallacious notion if you have an orthodox view of the canon of Scripture.


13 posted on 03/21/2012 11:03:16 AM PDT by RecoveringPaulisto
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To: scbison

He tries to make Christianity fit his world views and ignores the scriptures that make him uncomfortable. Matthew 19:4,5 shows that Jesus is talking about a man and a woman - not a mention of same sex or any other unions that man can come up with. Just a man and a woman.
I have no need for this Bible he is selling as I feel he was a terrible president and even a worse Bible teacher.


14 posted on 03/21/2012 11:10:29 AM PDT by texaschick
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To: scbison
Ditto that. Jesus did say this in regards to divorce:

“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.”

I don't see any provision in this statement for the joining of same sex couples. Since Jesus was speaking directly to divorce, it seems to me that he lays out what God intended marriage to be and there is no mention of men joined to men or women to women. Clear to me, but then I must be a fundamentalist.

18 posted on 03/21/2012 11:19:58 AM PDT by throwback ( The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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