WWJD, or say about homosexuality...?

[Jarod]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...ef=mostpopular


Sin, at least to me, Christian sin is not a list of specific things. The world is full of grey and not black and white, Jesus did not mention homosexuality... he did sit with a prostitute after saving her from an angry mob and make sure she knew she was loved. He did not point out to her that she was a sinner or remind her that adultery was a sin. She simply ensured she knew she was loved. Sin is simply not living up to your God given potential and not respecting yourself others or helping all to attain God given potential.

So, if you live in a culture where sleeping around and not respecting the results of doing so harms people or yourself, if it prevents you from attaining your God Given potential, then its a sin. But its not specifically the sleeping around that is the sin, its what it causes.

Society and Culture change. Time changes things. Science changes things. This is why specific things are not sins. This is also why judging what is a sin for others is not what Jesus taught us to do. Jesus taught us to ensure that we have done what we can to let everyone know they are loved.

Preaching and prosthalitizing about individual sins and pointing out others sinful behavior is the opposite of what Jesus taught us to do... helping people to know they are loved.

[illuminati Scottie]

What kind of fascist hitler wannabe is against sleeping around!

[Jarod]

What knd of fascist hitler wannabe is against sleeping around!

It can be harmful, however modern advances in technology (mostly birth control, but also disease control) has made the space where it is not harmful to oneself or others much larger than it once was.

[Damocles]

Where do you get he "sat with" a "prostitute" from that story?

The "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" thing was with an adulterer, never specified a "prostitute" and he didn't sit with her, he told her to go forth and sin no more and moved on.

He didn't say it wasn't sin. Does this mean he was a horrible person? He actually called something that was a sin a sin.

[Jarod]

Where do you get he "sat with" a "prostitute" from that story?

The "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" thing was with an adulterer, never specified a "prostitute" and he didn't sit with her, he told her to go forth and sin no more and moved on.

He didn't say it wasn't sin. Does this mean he was a horrible person? He actually called something that was a sin a sin.

The popular version of the story is that she was an adulterer, and he never specifically called anything a sin.

[Truth Detector]

The popular version of the story is that she was an adulterer, and he never specifically called anything a sin.

Your knowledge of the bible is as lacking as your knowledge of the law, the Constitution and economics. No wonder you're a brain dead loyal Obamatwit.

[Damocles]

The popular version of the story is that she was an adulterer, and he never specifically called anything a sin.

Go forth and "sin no more" is pretty clear indication that it was a sin.

[Jarod]

Go forth and "sin no more" is pretty clear indication that it was a sin.

Not to me, not when every accuser had left based on undisclosed sin. Her sin could have been anything, as Christianity acknowledges all of mankind are sinners of some type or another. The specifics of her "sin" are never addressed by Jesus, because they do not matter to him. The crowd of sinners were quick to tell of the specifics. Jesus, when left alone, (sitting or standing as you choose to intemperate it does not matter to me) did not turn to her and ask for any details or for a confession.


She was human and thus infected with original sin.

GO forth and sin no more could have been uttered to any of the accusers who left without throwing a stone for any multitude of sins.

[Jarod]

The story includes portions about Jesus writing in the sand. Some interpretations suggest he was writing the names and sins of the accusers, others say the name, and we don't really know, but the fact is that generic sin was what was being discussed, Jesus never addressed the accusations of "prostitution" or if you prefer, it does not matter for the purposes of this discussion... "adultery".

[Jarod]

Go forth and "sin no more" is pretty clear indication that it was a sin.

It was not an indication that the accusations were a sin, or even valid. It was an acknowledgement that everyone has sin. Open your eyes to the reality that many modern common teachings, when you study the spirit and entirety and themes of the Bible are clearly wrong.

[Jarod]

Matthew 22: 35 - 40 (traditional interpretation)

[35] Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
[36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38] This is the first and great commandment.
[39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
[40] On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

So where in there does Jesus mention homosexuality? Did Jesus define any individual sins? NO, he gave an overriding principal. Specifics don't work because society and culture change and that is a universal. Specific acts that are sinful in one situation may not be in another situation. If you are loving God and your neighbor, no matter who he is, you are not sinning. That means that if God created you with a focus on homosexual sexuality, if you live your live loving (respecting) what God gave you, if you celebrate and parse God with it, if you use your God given self in a way that loves (respects) others, you are not sinning.

[Jarod]

This is where Fundamentalists get it sooo flat out wrong.

Jesus came to free us from fundamentalism, unless you call loving God and celebrating what he gave you, fundamentalism.

If you call obeying dark and old rules with no basis in an overriding principal, if you call living in a changed world, by trying to fit the old ways into the principals that did not change Fundamentalism... then you are not acting in concert with what Jesus taught.

[leaningright]

I don't know whether to lol or to cry. Mercy me....

[Jarod]

I don't know whether to lol or to cry. Mercy me....

Sorry you disagree, but that does not make me wrong, or make it right to laugh at it.

[Jarod]

I don't know whether to lol or to cry. Mercy me....

How about instead of laughing or crying.. sharing with us what you disagree with me on.... We can have a discussion.