Nain wrote:"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." -Leviticus 20:13
LOL... Funny, as I was reading your post I was listening to Hozier's "Take Me to Church". The irony.
Now, I debated for a while as to whether or not to respond to your ignorance and your hatred and your bigotry. After all, the best way to deal with people like you online is to simply ignore you. But, as I am trying to advertise for our guild here and I am well aware that people will be watching, I decided - against my better judgement - to respond to you, you religious twat.
You are ignorant and simple-minded. I have no doubt that you THINK you know what you are talking about. You believe it. And that is what makes you pathetic and scary. Stop going to church and listening to whatever dribble some (probably) child molestor is feeding you and start thinking for yourself.
Don’t quote Leviticus to me. In Galatians Paul says we are no longer under the Law. Paul said Leviticus is the yoke of slavery. - Galatians 5:1.
And God was NOT talking about the ceremonial Law, rather than moral Law. If you think so, then please show me where in the Bible it says that there is a difference between moral law and ceremonial law? That distinction was made up by men (literally true). Show me in the Bible where those phrases even appear: moral law and ceremonial law. The word "ceremonial" only appears in the New International Version; no other translation even uses the word and it does not appear in the original Hebrew or Greek.
You won’t be able to show me any Biblical reference distinguishing between the so-called ceremonial and moral laws. If you would like to refer to the book of Acts and the sheet being lowered from heaven, then I would simply say that was just one concrete example of the cancellation of the entire Law.
Simple truth: You cannot quote Leviticus to prove God hates homosexuality. The Apostle Paul said so in Galatians.If you obligate people to obey the law, you bring them under a curse. - The Apostle St. Paul
Please note: I did not say that the Old Testament is irrelevant to us. And I did not say that the Law is irrelevant to us.
The WHOLE Bible is relevant.
(Actually, I personally believe that the WHOLE Bible is IRRELEVANT outside of scholarly research into the social and political development of western Europe and the history of colonialism. However, I do realize I am speaking to religious nut here , so I am trying to put this in words your simpleton mind can understand.)
All I said is that you cannot legitimately quote Leviticus to prove that God hates homosexuality. If you make people accountable to obey the Law, you bring them under a curse. The Apostle Paul said so in Galatians.
About the verses in Leviticus: To put it simply, if a judge rules a piece of evidence inadmissible, it cannot be introduced as evidence. If one of the parties mentions the evidence anyway, the judge declares a mistrial. When people say, “The Bible condemns homosexuality throughout the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments,” God the Righteous Judge would throw the case of the accusers out of court.
You are an idiot. And, if there is a God (which I highly doubt), and he/she/it is anything like the just, righteous, forgiving, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-wise being that "Christians" claim him to be, then YOU, my friend, are the furthest thing from representing that realization that ever can be.
SIGH. The world will never know peace so long as people like you exist in the world.