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Published: 2010-08-11 08:11:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 1773; Favourites: 72; Downloads: 18
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Display this stamp if you want to stand up for equality!Regardless of what the bible says or what others say i believe in God's unbiased love first and foremost. My God loves everyone regardless of who you are or who you love.
I think it's sad that that message of God's love often comes in behind other judgmental interpretations of what God says. Especially since God also says; 'Do not judge, or you too will be judged.' I think is is extremely biased and wrong for we as humans to decide what is God's final word and what's not. Would you stone a disobedient child ( Deuteronomy 21:18-21), or someone who takes the lord's name in vain? ( Leviticus 24:16) Not unless you wanted to go to jail. So why would you condemn another human for something they have no control over. Would you deny a human the dignity and acceptance that we all deserve?.
Now i'm not disregarding the relevance of the bible as a cultural and spiritual element in a Christian's life. It is as important as any other spiritual text, as any other belief. Most, if not all, of my beliefs stem from biblical writings (with a good helping of life experience ha ha), personally i tend to take the new testament a lot more literally than the old testament. I mean Jesus did come to break down the old testament's barriers after all. And really the message of God's love also comes from the bible so we can't disregard it all as touch and go. But i think our personal relationship with God is more important than a script handed down from human to human, which is what i believe Jesus did. He broke down the barriers between God and us as his children. Really in the end the only thing you can be certain of is where you stand within yourself in relation to such things. And i believe that love is the most important thing.
My beliefs aside the bottom line in relation to this stamp is think of all your close friends or family members, people you love. Chances are one or more of them are gay. Which one would you discriminate against or have discriminated against?
(Obviously the whole issue is a lot more complicated but it's the best i can manage after a 12 hour day (and it's only 5:40PM) ha ha
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Fist of all, I am a Christian also. I believe that God does not condone Gay marriage. He says in the New Testament against it. Yes, a personal relationship with God is what's important. But God gave us the Bible so that we'd have something to look to for answers on what is right, and what is wrong. The Bible was God breathed, so man wrote it, but it's from God. Of course, this doesn't mean that God doesn't love Gays, He does, but he doesn't approve of what they're doing.
This is my opinion of course, and you don't have to read it, but I just wanted to share my opinion on this.
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I respect your opinion, but where in the New Testament does he say that? I would think it would be in the Old Testament, so that surprised me. I believe that the Bible is more of a reference book, not a legitimate argument. Besides, there have been so many translations and interpretations of the Bible that it's hardly accurate anymore. The most important thing in the Bible is "Love thy neighbor as thyself." It doesn't say "unless they're gay". Love and let love. No hate, just a contrasting opinion.
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I highly doubt that God would let the Bible change much (if at all really) through translations. He gave us the Bible for reference, yes, and we are to live by it. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Yeah, that is very important, but if we are going to put more importance on some things, and just scratch other stuff altogether that we don't feel is as important as others, why not just throw the whole thing out and come up with whatever we want instead? I mean, if we can't don't believe all of it, then why believe any of it at all? Anyway, Romans 1 says about it.
Romans 1 KJV
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
That pretty clearly says it, doesn't it? Once again, I love gay's, and obviously God does too, but that doesn't mean that God approves of what they're doing. All of us are worthy of death because of our sin, but it's by the grace of God we can have eternal life. If we love God, then that would mean that we'd want to do what he likes.
If I sound hateful that's not my intention, I just don't like to see others mislead.
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That's because God didn't write it. It was created by humans, then translated into many languages, then interpreted in different ways. That's why we have different versions of the Bible. And I think that's a great idea. It's far to outdated to be taken literally. In fact, Leviticus was created to show the stupidity of humans. Like ones that do take it literally.
For these reasons I do not believe it is a legitimate argument. And once again, God did not write the Bible. Don't think you can speak for Him. Nobody can, it's God. Personally, I don't believe in sin, a vengeful God, or hell. I believe that He loves all His children equally, no matter what. I am quite offended by your last sentence. I am not mislead. It is what I believe, but clearly not what you believe. That's fine- makes the world more interesting. However, I am sick of people telling other people that what they believe is wrong. It is none of your business, what I believe. Goodbye.
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It was written by humans, but God gave the people writing the Bible the words to write. And the KJV is the most accurate interpretation, so yeah.. I'm just curious.. say you believed the Bible, how would you interpret the verses I showed you?
So, in otherwords.. you're saying that God loves murderers just the same as someone who tries to be pretty much perfect? I mean, you say that you don't believe in sin and a vengeful God, so you think that murderers would be just as worthy of God's love as ones who don't murder? I believe that, but it's by accepting God's gift of salvation that they are forgiven. We're all sinners and fall short of the glory of God, and all sins are equal, whether it be a white lie, or murder. Actually, you can kinda technically speak for God because we have the Bible.
If we all just did what we felt was write by following what we think to be right, then how does that work? I mean, we'd be in complete chaos because just cause someone else thinks something is right or wrong, doesn't mean that someone else will think that way, so is everything relative?
Sorry to have offended you, but y'know, you're telling people what they believe is wrong technically too. There's really no equal ground. You may want others to be more tolerant and perhaps open minded, but then you're also not being very tolerant. just sayin.
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Only Jesus word is the word of God, not the entire Bible.
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To answer your comment more fully-no, God had no say in writing the Bible.
If you take the Bible so literally, do you not wear gold jewelery? Eat shellfish? Wear cotton or synthetic fabic? Do you think you are unclean when you have your period or take a dump? Have you ever made a wheat sacrifice? That's some odd life you got there.
I heard of a book one time on a similar topic.
A man's daughter was shot and killed, and the murderer got away. The man prayed to God that the murderer be killed and for his daughter to be alive again. God said "I'll give you back your daughter-as long as you kill one of your other three children." Of course the man couldn't do that. "I love all my children the same!" God said "So do I. Even if they do something bad, I will love them the same."
So that is why I don't believe in sin or any of that bullshit. Well, it's bullshit in my opinion.
What I will firmly say is bullshit is that "gay is a sin". It's not. It's been proven that the people who wrote the Bible decided to impose their personal values in their writing. Homosexuality was very common in Jesus's time as well. And it was written over 3500 years ago. Ever tried to use an old map to give you directions? No, because it would be wrong. The Bible is like an old map-outdated and inaccurate.
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It was just an opinion. No need to get worked up about it.
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oh, no, I'm not worked up, I just find how you think fascinating.
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God's love is unbiased and the bible was translated and written by different people. Who knows what isn't supposed to be there?
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WHOO-HOO! :applause:
This is one of the most awesome ways of, well, just putting thigns i have ever read. 
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Not a christian but I relly love this stamp.
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It's about time someone made a stamp for this <333
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