Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!gatech!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: ta00est@unccvax.uncc.edu (elizabeth s tallant) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Imposing Christian morality on nonbelievers Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 04:47:19 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of NC at Charlotte Lines: 48 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , djdaneh@pacbell.com (Dan'l DanehyOakes) writes: > 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. Note the word PRACTICING. A practicing Christian is not just someone who is a Christian (through faith in Jesus Christ) but is instead someone who practices what he/she claims to believe in. One who is a Christian believes in the Bible and its teachings. Thus, if one want to be a practicing Christian, one should strive to do those things that the Bible teaches. While none of us are perfect, we should at least try. > > Christ also expects us not to judge one another. > I am not judging you. For all I know, you may be a heterosexual who is pulling a prank. I am simply stating that the Bible forbids homosexuality. > > 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 This is absolute blasphemy. It's like saying that two people in an adulterous relationship are close to God when they are "doing it", or that a murderer is close to God when he kills. The Bible clearly shows that homosexuality is a sin. Sin separates one from God. It does not bring him/her closer to God. > 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 So, this is what it comes down to. I simply reiterate what the Bible says, and because you don't want to accept it, you indirectly accuse me of hating you. What a cop - out. My question would be, is one more interested in doing the Lord's will, no matter what it may be, than he is in sticking to his/her own version of right and wrong? Elizabeth