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« Reply #140 on: October 10, 2006, 02:27:23 pm »
Geo I live by the rule, hate the sin not the sinner.  I hold nothing against gay people, I tell them my views on homosexuality and everything else if they ask.  I'm not going to try and preach hellfire on them, since the general message of Christianity is peace and love anyway.
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« Reply #141 on: October 10, 2006, 02:30:56 pm »
Do you think people should take the Bible as it is and trust every word of it or should they realise that most of its ideas are fairly outdated and can be modified to work better for the world we currently live in?  Or something else entirely?

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« Reply #142 on: October 10, 2006, 02:36:54 pm »
Do you think people should take the Bible as it is and trust every word of it or should they realise that most of its ideas are fairly outdated and can be modified to work better for the world we currently live in?  Or something else entirely?
If you take everything at face value then you're nothing more then a photocopy of the  first opinion.  Questioning and looking into what you read is something everyone should do, I questioned my faith earlier in my life and decided I wanted to be a christian still. 
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« Reply #143 on: October 10, 2006, 05:51:40 pm »
Geo I live by the rule, hate the sin not the sinner.  I hold nothing against gay people, I tell them my views on homosexuality and everything else if they ask.  I'm not going to try and preach hellfire on them, since the general message of Christianity is peace and love anyway.

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« Reply #144 on: October 10, 2006, 06:23:03 pm »
Oh yeah... oops
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« Reply #145 on: October 10, 2006, 06:58:32 pm »
Christian, Lutheran I guess? We go to an Evangelical Free Church now. I don't believe in predestination (French Calvinism?)

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« Reply #146 on: October 10, 2006, 07:07:15 pm »
Lol two bible thumpers came to my door...felt like inviting them in and having a little debate with them but my sister got to them first :P

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Re: Religion
« Reply #147 on: October 10, 2006, 08:50:29 pm »
Do you think people should take the Bible as it is and trust every word of it or should they realise that most of its ideas are fairly outdated and can be modified to work better for the world we currently live in? Or something else entirely?
If you take everything at face value then you're nothing more then a photocopy of the first opinion. Questioning and looking into what you read is something everyone should do, I questioned my faith earlier in my life and decided I wanted to be a christian still.

So what, exactly, are your personal beliefs about homosexuality and how did you come to those beliefs, if you don't mind me asking?
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« Reply #148 on: October 10, 2006, 08:54:18 pm »
Do you think homosexuals go to hell?

I think if we replaced "God" with "Universe", things make more sense.

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« Reply #149 on: October 10, 2006, 09:02:09 pm »
Do you think people should take the Bible as it is and trust every word of it or should they realise that most of its ideas are fairly outdated and can be modified to work better for the world we currently live in? Or something else entirely?
If you take everything at face value then you're nothing more then a photocopy of the first opinion. Questioning and looking into what you read is something everyone should do, I questioned my faith earlier in my life and decided I wanted to be a christian still.

So what, exactly, are your personal beliefs about homosexuality and how did you come to those beliefs, if you don't mind me asking?
My believes about homosexuality are the same as alot of christians... its wrong.  Know it sounds blunt but it's my belief, I have run into a few gay people and really  as long as everything is discussed with mutual respect I never really offened anyone or got offended by anyone.  Like I said before hate the sin not the sinner.   
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Re: Religion
« Reply #150 on: October 10, 2006, 09:08:04 pm »
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@PopeJohnPaul_II: The term "Satanist" is not as strict as you may think. Some Satanists use the tag to show their self-glorification and don't even believe in Satan whatsoever.
That IS what about 98% of Satanists are. The only people that believe in 'satan' and consider themselves 'satanists' are devil worshippers and don't exactly adhere to the basic ideas of satanism. That being surrounding the left hand path which is the opposite of deity worship.
There. See, PopeJohnPaul_II? :P Talk to 'Dan, then; I'm sure he knows his stuff much more than I do about Satanism, anyways.
MilkmanDan was agreeing with me. Keron, I don't see how you can argue against what I say of Satanism when you still have yet two overcome two obstacles. Firstly, you know very little of the Satanic religion. Secondly, Christianity is by far the most chaotic, disjointed religion of them all. Until you can prove otherwise, there's no point to these strange antics of yours.
Er, your argument was for actual Satan-worshipping Satanists, unless I misunderstood.

"Christianity is by far the most chaotic, disjointed religion of them all?" I have already explained earlier that people heavily misiinterpret, accidentally or purposely, and use religions as scapegoats. I don't see how you call my posts here pointless, "strange antics" based on how Christianity is evil; there's no correlation at all, there. I'm not insulting you or Satanism or anything, so there was no reason for you to bring Christianity into this talk and insult it in the process.
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« Reply #151 on: October 10, 2006, 09:19:30 pm »
The Satanic Bible does not state the existence or belief/worship in Satan as anything other than a symbol.

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« Reply #152 on: October 10, 2006, 09:30:42 pm »
Do you think homosexuals go to hell?

Depends, I guess.  I suppose there could be a few gay Christians who wouldn't, and a few gay non-Christians who would.  Homosexuality is just another sin; as long as someone is saved, their sins are forgiven.
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Re: Religion
« Reply #153 on: October 10, 2006, 09:40:38 pm »
Do you think homosexuals go to hell?

Depends, I guess.  I suppose there could be a few gay Christians who wouldn't, and a few gay non-Christians who would.  Homosexuality is just another sin; as long as someone is saved, their sins are forgiven.

Oh the hypocricy.

You're honestly saying that if you had two people: 1), a gay man who lived a perfectly normal and fulfilling life, never stole, swore, or hurt anyone and 2) a gay man who lived the same life but was "saved" by being Christian, that the other would go to hell?  Smells a bit fishy to me.  Sounds like if you walk with Jesus you can be as gay as you like when you put it that way.  Or were you implying that God picks and chooses which gays to keep from hell and which to save?

So what about a murderer?  If he's a Christian murderer, does he get his sleight wiped clean and get a ticked out of hell?  Or are there a few Christian murderers that go to hell, and a few non-Christian murderers that don't?  I'm not trying to pick on you here or anything, but this kind of logic just makes the religion seem like a convenient out for what people deem wrong.  If you do wrong, just praise the lord and it's all good again.  Doesn't matter whether or not you should have done it in the first place.
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Re: Religion
« Reply #154 on: October 10, 2006, 10:21:58 pm »
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« Reply #155 on: October 10, 2006, 10:46:39 pm »
Do you think homosexuals go to hell?

Depends, I guess.  I suppose there could be a few gay Christians who wouldn't, and a few gay non-Christians who would.  Homosexuality is just another sin; as long as someone is saved, their sins are forgiven.
Exactly what I was thinking. The bible says two men should not lay together, which is speaking of homosexuals. According to the bible, gay is gay, there's no way around it.

Oh the hypocricy.

You're honestly saying that if you had two people: 1), a gay man who lived a perfectly normal and fulfilling life, never stole, swore, or hurt anyone and 2) a gay man who lived the same life but was "saved" by being Christian, that the other would go to hell?  Smells a bit fishy to me.  Sounds like if you walk with Jesus you can be as gay as you like when you put it that way.  Or were you implying that God picks and chooses which gays to keep from hell and which to save?

So what about a murderer?  If he's a Christian murderer, does he get his sleight wiped clean and get a ticked out of hell?  Or are there a few Christian murderers that go to hell, and a few non-Christian murderers that don't?  I'm not trying to pick on you here or anything, but this kind of logic just makes the religion seem like a convenient out for what people deem wrong.  If you do wrong, just praise the lord and it's all good again.  Doesn't matter whether or not you should have done it in the first place.
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« Reply #156 on: October 10, 2006, 11:05:55 pm »
Do you think homosexuals go to hell?

Depends, I guess.  I suppose there could be a few gay Christians who wouldn't, and a few gay non-Christians who would.  Homosexuality is just another sin; as long as someone is saved, their sins are forgiven.

Oh the hypocricy.

You're honestly saying that if you had two people: 1), a gay man who lived a perfectly normal and fulfilling life, never stole, swore, or hurt anyone and 2) a gay man who lived the same life but was "saved" by being Christian, that the other would go to hell?  Smells a bit fishy to me.  Sounds like if you walk with Jesus you can be as gay as you like when you put it that way.  Or were you implying that God picks and chooses which gays to keep from hell and which to save?

So what about a murderer?  If he's a Christian murderer, does he get his sleight wiped clean and get a ticked out of hell?  Or are there a few Christian murderers that go to hell, and a few non-Christian murderers that don't?  I'm not trying to pick on you here or anything, but this kind of logic just makes the religion seem like a convenient out for what people deem wrong.  If you do wrong, just praise the lord and it's all good again.  Doesn't matter whether or not you should have done it in the first place.
Geo you are not looking at it through a christians view, christians believe if you do not accept Jesus as your savior you go to hell anyway, gay or not.
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« Reply #157 on: October 10, 2006, 11:49:07 pm »
That's only a half answer buddy.  And that only feeds into the nature of my problem with the belief itself.  If non-Christians go to hell automatically, then is any sin forgiven and sinners get a free ticket out just for being "saved"?  Murder, homosexuality, rape, and so on down the list..these are just forgotten about?

How could these or other sins be forgiven, but someone who has never commited such an act, lived a good life, yet not accepted Jesus be comdemned?  That seems totally backwards in my opinion.  What about those who don't even know about Jesus?  If God is all he's cracked up to be then he'd see this flaw a billion miles away.  As long as you believe in Jesus your sins get wiped clean, but even people who live a good and honest life get the shaft if they don't believe.

That's why I'll never be a Christian.
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« Reply #158 on: October 10, 2006, 11:51:12 pm »
Sins are forgiven but every sin is punished somehow. 
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« Reply #159 on: October 11, 2006, 12:12:02 am »
Finally a pleasing/sensible answer, perhaps there is hope yet..I thank you Gram.  In all your sexy beardedness.  Although I may have more questions, even though I know I come off as being quite brash.  Guess that's the nature of this beast.
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