"Remember when you were little and you asked your parents why something was so and they said, "Because I said so"... the same applies to the Bible.. I don't question the Lord's wisdom, I just accept it."
I have every intention of asking Him "Why?" when I get there. I'm trying to obey, even though I don't always understand why he wants us to do some things, and refrain from others. I did not always feel that way, though, and I found out the hard way that some of the things he asks us not to do are not good for us. I have many fewer of those "Why?" questions than I did 30 years ago. I didn't much like it when my parents used that "I'm older than you, and know more." arguement, either. Some folks can learn by being told, some only learn my messing up. Some don't even learn from that. Maybe that is why he gave us rules we don't always understand? Begins to look likely to me, anyway. What do you think about it?
No reason to worry about questions. See my post 47.
I have come to a realization that God didn't give us all those "thou shalt nots" because he is a prude, or because he has an obsession against people experiencing pleasure, or because he enjoys giving orders that no one likes. I believe that God, the creator, is familiar with every weakness of the creation and has issued rules, that if obeyed,even partially, will assure the greatest productivity, pleasure, and longetivity possible for us.
Reproducing our own kind, was programmed into the design. Homosexuality is that program gone totally awry, and a perfect formula for humanity's absolute extinction.
I think of it as a test of our love for Him. It's as if God is saying; "Good for you if you obey my rules when you understand the reasons for them. But what I want you to do, is obey me when you don't understand."
The tree in the garden was Adam & Eve's test, which they failed. There is no other reason for having put it there, that I can think of.
Of all the "rules" mentioned in Exodus 20: 3-17, one has all the characteristics of exactly the same kind of test for the present time.