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To: Gamecock
Homosexuality is a sin, but so is homophobia. Homophobia is irrational fear of a whole people group, failing to see in that group God’s image diminished but not extinguished by sin, and that God’s elect people linger there, snared by their own design and awaiting gospel grace

Who has an irrational fear? Is it rational to want the group stopped? They seem to be getting larger, gathering more power and becoming more hateful to Bible believers. Sounds to me like she is still hanging on to some old defense patterns or thought processes.

The words hate and racism have been giving new meanings that apply only to white people and or Bible believers. I refuse to adopt them.

9 posted on 07/15/2013 7:55:50 AM PDT by winodog
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To: winodog

I think their is a clear distinction between our (Christian) response to individual sinners and a movement.


11 posted on 07/15/2013 8:03:19 AM PDT by Gamecock ("Ultimately, Jesus died to save us from the wrath of God." R.C. Sproul)
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To: winodog
Homosexuality is a sin, but so is homophobia.

It is easy to find Biblical support for the first phrase. I'd like the author to give a couple of Bible citations to support the idea that "homophobia" is a sin. Given the way that homophobia is commonly defined in our society, the author has probably committed the "sin" of homophobia by typing that homosexuality is a sin.

I'm glad that God delivered her from the darkness that is homosexuality but I think that she has brought in some baggage from her former life which confuses her thinking. A Christian must hate what God hates and God hates the sin of homosexuality. Hating the sin doesn't equate to hating the sinner. I loathed the drunkenness of my father and uncle but I didn't hate them for the sin they were committing. Besides hating drunkenness because God hates it, I hated drunkenness because I saw what it was doing to two men who I cared deeply for. It would seem in the author's view I must have been guilty of drunkophobia or some such silly term.

12 posted on 07/15/2013 9:22:04 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Obama vs. Romney - clear evidence that our nation has been judged by God and found wanting.)
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