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To: Awestruck

Accepting God's wisdom is a fine concept, but determining the nature of that wisdom presents more than a little difficulty. After all, lots of sincere Christians have justified lots of evil (chattel slavery in the USA, for example) by thinking it was sanctioned by God's wisdom. At a minimum, the Billy Graham approach seems appropriate: yes, engaging in homosexual acts is a sin, but no worse than any other sin, such as the sin of "pride." That sin of "pride" (the opposite of humility) might even ensnare a fair number of Freepers from time to time.


43 posted on 12/04/2004 6:52:41 PM PST by olrtex
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To: olrtex
Snip)At a minimum, the Billy Graham approach seems appropriate: yes, engaging in homosexual acts is a sin, but no worse than any other sin, such as the sin of "pride." That sin of "pride" (the opposite of humility) might even ensnare a fair number of Freepers from time to time.

An interesting concept, so does this mean the sin of glutony is the same as murder?I wonder why the bible doesn't rate sins?one being worse than the other? Could it be that is why God gave us common sense?

105 posted on 12/04/2004 8:41:05 PM PST by edchambers ("Pajama clad Neocon footsoldier of the Haliburton Death squad Digital brown shirts")
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To: olrtex

that comes from liberal (the true meaning) interpretations of His word.. it's really not that complicated.


154 posted on 12/05/2004 1:47:56 PM PST by Awestruck (The artist formerly known as Goodie D)
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