Here ya go.

http://www.soulforce.org/article/homosexuality-bible-gay-christian

Read it. It is excellent. Really excellent. And...

http://ucsf.academia.edu/MatsChristianse...e_gay_community

Read this. It is very small print but I can make it out. And it's hard to read, emotionally, but I'm glad I ran across it.

I came upon it by googling something else. I was googling to find information about where the notion comes from (other than bible reference, if there is any) that says:

Everyone is four men:

one the world knows
one our friends know
one we know ourselves
one God knows

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Again, I was trying to google "everyone is four men" ..so I hit the first link that google supplied me and read about the info on the 4 homosexual men, 62 - 74 years old...of various religions.

Getting back to Paul in the Bible...he addresses the struggles we all have (of one sort or another) in I Cor. 4 .

Do not depend on man's judgment. The world judges our character upon a single act. The voices of criticism may be loud, but if you go high up on the hilltop with God, you will see the bustle of the crowd but you won't hear it.

Beware of your friend's judgment because he may be too favorable in his opinion of you. We like to believe all the good things said about us and resent unfavorable criticism.

Paul says, I judge not mine own self (I Cor. 4:3).

WHEN I tried to explain in another thread that I supposed back when the Bible was written they all may have been struggling with people dying right and left of illness related to sexual preference of man with man or woman with woman...I don't know. They may have thought the only way they could help each other was to make this subject (sin?) something to be "afraid" of, so it was considered a sin...I don't know. God forbid anyone back then made a mistake (or were they right...are we kidding/fooling ourselves today with all the cocktail-cures for AIDS, etc?). I don't know.

It isn't something close to me...I've not dealt with it other than the people I have known in my life who were gay. I have no judgment there.

Even when we believe the Scriptures are "without error," it is a risk to think our understanding is without error.


Edited by ævory (02/04/12 09:02 PM)