Quote From: mommyjenna I am not hiding behind religion. I am posting scriptures and examining them. How is that hiding? If anyone is hiding, it's those who do not respond to the scriptures that are being posted. Most are saying they are Christians, so I don't understand.
Actually, the first books of the Bible are the oldest written accounts known to man (though there is some debate that the Sumerian writings came first) In any case, the writings go even beyond the Egyptian and Babylonian eras as well.
The accounts of Jesus were not originally written down centuries after his death. They were all written within that same generation. Matthew example, was written by the apostle Matthew - same guy who followed Jesus around during his ministry. There are non Biblical sources as well to confirm the existance of Christ.
I don't follow the Koran.
We shouldn't be interpretting the scriptures according the the times we live in. God is the same, yesterday today and forever.
If you want to talk science, please go to Should we teach creationism in schools under News and Current events and we can discuss it in depth.
I'm not Catholic and don't follow the vatican views. My only source of truth is the Bible.
The hiding behind religion is that when you give you're opinion on gay-related issues you say "The bible says" you don't say I think and if you do you say right after that "but the bible says" so you take away the power of your words so you don't have to say what you think instead of what the bible thinks that is why it's hiding behind religion.
Yes maby the sories went beyond the babylonian and egyptian era even more reason to doubt how true they are because the first writing isn't much older then those eras.
About the stories of jesus is just not how I heard it I'm sorry
I didn't say you where following the koran I gave it as an example on how the same thing came be interpreted in sow many ways so can you inteprete the bible in different ways why else would there be so many different churches?
But man wrote down the scriptures is it not possible that god might have made it understandable for man in that period and that we can interprete it for this period? Because if god is a greater being he should've cut down to our level of understanding and that ment that in that era man might not have been ready for a gay community.
And that bible was kept by the vatican for many centuries
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