Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: djdaneh@pacbell.com (Dan'l DanehyOakes) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Imposing Christian morality on nonbelievers Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 09:16:12 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA Lines: 30 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant) writes > You cannot be a practicing Christian and committ homosexual acts. The two > are contradictory. No, dear heart. They are not. Christ does not expect us to be sinless. What Christ expects from us is to examine our own lives, and try to find the sin in them, and confess and repent that sin, and then re-examine our lives and find the sin that's *still* there, etc., in a process that (barring Divine intervention) can never be truly complete in this life. Christ expects that, as we are imperfect, fallen beings, we will commit some sinful acts. He expects that, as soon as we have realized that they are sinful, we will repent them. Christ also expects us not to judge one another. This next paragraph must be read very carefully, elizabeth (do you really spell it with no caps?); for it is *not* directed as a slam at you. I do not judge you; I do not know what your motivations in the above-quoted comment are. I suggest that a gay whose acts -- however sinful they may be, and I do not know whether they are or not -- are committed in honest and charitable love with his or her partner may be much closer to the Holy Spirit than a professing Christian whose preachments at gays come not out of love for them but out of hate for them. I personally think it better for Christians to avoid making such preachments until they are absolutely certain their minds and hearts are clear of any such hate, because we must be right with our brothers before offering sacrifice.