Message from @MrAconite
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well, i think that gay marriage is different from actually having gender dysphoria
while it may be true that some people have more natural inclinations towards the same sex that does not mean the act itself is not a sin. i think you can feel attractions towards the same sex without acting on them and it not be a sin unless you start lusting, same with opposite sex attraction
Funny how you say that. I have a bible verse that says even if you thought if you thought of it in your mind it this a sin.
Read this
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a. woman to lust after her has committed. adultery with her already in his heart.
yeah, jesus says that even looking with lust would be adultury in the heart, that speaking of lust though, not just attraction. like if i see an attractive girl and think "hmm she's good looking" thats not sin, but when i get lustfull sexual thoughts then its a problem
lol you beat me to it
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No. It goes against what the bible says. Churches shouldn't care about attraction, but lust, sex, and marriage between the same gender is completely wrong. But a church should let anyone in regardless of their problems, which is unfortunately easier said than done
quite right
As to transgenderism and the Christian view, it is a mental disease called gender dysphoria, and those people should be loved just the same as everyone else because God loves them the same as everyone else, (also over 95% of them grow out of it). God does not approve of transitioning, but He empathizes with the mental ramifications that the disease can have. But if you have an XY and a D, then you are a guy, and you will be referred to as such, and if you have an XX and a V, then you are a gal, and you will be referred to as such.
"And so God Hardened pharohs heart so he would not relent."
That speaks more to things used to be made for quality and to last, vs now where companies have planned obsoletion. Just like car parts. Why do you think every year some new part breaks you need to have fixed just often its an inconvenience but not enough of them for the entire car to break down?
What can anyone REALLY know they do not experience for themselves? They cannot. They can only look at the signs and see if it makes sense. God is a logical God, not one of chaos and whims. He left the Bible both as a guideline book and as proof that cannot be refuted by even some of the most historically inclined.
Do I believe that God has I giant spiderweb of plans and contingencies? Yes. But even Jesus was pretty sparing with his Miracles, using debate and argument to sway people more than "making it rain" blessings on people.
In the Bible, a rainbow appearing after the flooding of the earth was considered to be a miracle performed by God. Science now describes the intricacies of a rainbow and why it appears. Is it still a miracle?
It was a not a miracle. God even said it was a Sign.
I am of the belief that our very existence, our conception at birth, is a miracle performed by God.
There are miracles happening all around us, however we live in a world where darkness surrounds us. It blinds us from seeing God’s beauty as we should.
people are giddy to make anything into a miracle, thereby cheapening actual miracles when they do happen.
That is your opinion
There is a difference between the beauty of the universe and miracles.
That is your opinion. You see how that isnt an argument?
It is true that there are more wonders in existance than the human mind ever can or will comprehend in its entire life and the few that are revealed are to be enjoyed. But just because there are infinite amounts of stars on a nights sky does not mean that is a miracle.
There are some more modern examples
I see severe catholic idolotry and gaudy gold and jewel clad statues for people to pray to. It even said they prayed to the saint, not god. God might have spared them but I dont imagine him apreciating them praying to anyone but him.
Mel Gibsons house was amazingly untouched after that forest fire but nobody said it was a miracle. They just said god was protecting it.
Is Mel Gibson a saint then?
That is not how sainthood works
Sainthood was invented by the catholic church, Ive yet to see a biblical verse talking once about sainthood.
That’s untrue. Sainthood existed before Christianity
The book of Enoch
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That predates Christianity
A book that the Catholic church recognizes.
But is strangely missing from actual bibles.
The Catholic Church does not at all respect the book of Enoch as the word of God