Posted on 09/16/2005 9:33:24 AM PDT by mlc9852
Tell me about it. My daughter just went off to school (Freshman at Purdue) and her roommate turns out to be gay. The roommate had her "life partner" (who she's been with for 3 years and is STILL in High School) dropped off for a weekender by two women she both called "Mom".
Really? Where in the Bible does it say that weaving cloth from two materials is an "abomination", "detestable", or that one must be put to death for it like it says about homosexual sex? The core of your point, that Christians regularly break a lot of the other laws of Judaism, is valid. The claim that wearing mixed cloth is just as egregious as homosexual sex in the Bible, is not, any more than petty theft is just as egregious as rape or murder because both are illegal.
Roman sources warned of a declining population due to falling fertility from the 1st century, although present-day demographers have been unable to document a fall in the population [1]. But archeological evidence tells a clearer story, notes Ward-Perkins. "Much of central Italy and parts of Gaul seem to have been in decline during the third and fourth centuries," while Britain was abandoned, shrinking the recruitment base for the Roman legions and the tax base with which to pay them. It is telling that central Italy, the Latin heartland, showed the sharpest decline. I tend to credit the old-fashioned view, unpopular in the academy, that infertility due to infanticide, contraception, promiscuity and general immorality rotted out Rome long before it collapsed.
His loving family don't see him as a scarey cop, but as a loving father and husband.
But he's still a cop to those who break the law...
A dyke?
Considering I have absolutely no concept of what a loving father is like (much less husband)...
all I see is the cop ;)
But it does help me get a grip on what other's see.
I appreciate your concern about not hijacking the lesbo thread. :) I also appreciate that there is much about the Bible that I do not know, so it isn't fair to make you explain things to me. However, your response on its own seems to support my point in a way, i.e. you make the assumption that being "absent from the body" necessarily implies after the death of the body. This doesn't seem obvious to me. A person could be absent from the body insofar as he resists or avoids temptation in this life in favor of higher, more Godly and spiritual, pursuits. Also, you seem to recognize that salvation includes current salvation by the Holy Spirit. Why do we assume that it also includes salvation after bodily death? (I can think of philosophic answers, but is there scripture?)
And Stone Cold saw that it was good...
Thanks, I will look at that. Are you a seminary student? or grad?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/malaria_02.shtml
My life had no loving father either.
But even the best loving father on earth can't compare.
Just think unconditional love times a million. The kind that makes you want to make Him smile without any fear involved.
The context of the the phrase absent from the body in 2 Corinthians 5:8 for example does not lend itself to what you are suggesting here. As for your second question, there are numerous Scriptures (John 3:1-17 would be a good place to start, along with Romans 3 and Romans 6 and Ephesians 2).
Just a regular servant.
Thanks, I'll look at those.
pc1978 seems to think that the only proscriptions against homosexuality appear in Leviticus along with the ceremonial and dietary restrictions of Jewish Law. A little trip through Romans 1 might clear up that misconception, but I think his Libertarianism trumps his spirituality, and he is loathe to acknowledge that one can actually declare an activity or behavior to be wrong and inherently contrary to God's law. And while for the most part I can appreciate and agree with the "live and let live" philosophy of most of libertarianism, and do not desire that we attempt to use the government to force religious observance on the population, I don't buy into the notion that society should just adopt a complete "anything goes" policy about everything.
"His loving family don't see him as a scarey cop"
You must know different cop families than I do ;)
I said it wasn't a great analogy...
:-)
Speaking theoretically.
Any chance you're currently wearing any clothing of 'mixed cloth'? If so, you're committing an abomination as egregious (according to the bible) as homosexuality.
QA replies:"Where in the Bible does it say that weaving cloth from two materials is an "abomination""
Moses had strict rules about mixed material because it was a pagan symbol and he was trying to make a point about that only one God thing in the 10 Commandments.
What's the next Dr. Laura letter talking point again? Oh Yeah...I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?
OR...I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself?
LOL, Old tired arguments that have been dismissed many times.
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