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To: pjr12345
We discuss Scripture, and don't always agree. However, we all DO agree that the Bible is the only authority afforded man by God to correctly understand His will.

There are those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, who have turned to Scripture and found NO prohibition against homosexuality. In essence, they believe that they can have their sin and their salvation, too. What would you say to them?

36 posted on 01/24/2007 4:35:22 PM PST by TradicalRC ("...this present Constitution, which will be valid henceforth, now, and forever..."-Pope St. Pius V)
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I'd ask them to read the first chapter of Romans.


39 posted on 01/24/2007 4:40:47 PM PST by pjr12345
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Romans 1:18-32

18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.

21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

24Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.


41 posted on 01/24/2007 4:46:02 PM PST by pjr12345
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To: TradicalRC
There are those Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, who have turned to Scripture and found NO prohibition against homosexuality. In essence, they believe that they can have their sin and their salvation, too. What would you say to them?

I'd say they could find people who arrive at the same views within the catholic church. You're just foisting off a straw man argument...not very honest of you.

130 posted on 01/24/2007 10:08:12 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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