On Sat, November 8, 2014 8:06 am, Michael Scott wrote:
1st Corinthians 6:
Great, so you don't believe they'll inherit the kingdom of God; from the same book of Paul which says women must be silent in church. But that has absolutely nothing to do with the question asked which (apparently because it needs repeating) "So why can't your church/denomination/whatever have their own marriage requirements and just leave everyone else alone? Why is that your definition of marriage has to be enshrined in law?"
Ahh, so it's subject to interpretation and context. Well, how about that? So why is it that the interpretation and context that you think is right is that one that must be enshrined in civil law?
Slaves, as an example, didn't have Centrelink. They could be slaves or starve. It was economically better for them to be slaves. Please don't plead context and deliberately comment out of context.
Apart the slave issue being complete nonsense (slaves were typically the spoils of conquest.. they could go home you know), I am mocking your selective use of context. Sometimes you seem to think that a biblical marriage is absolute and sometimes you appeal to context. It's rather like this guy.. http://technoccult.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/leviticustattoo.jpg (For those who don't get the joke, a couple of pages later in Leviticus is a prohibition on tatoos) Despite all this you have no justification on why your religious version of marriage is the one which everyone else has to live with.
The execution of people who worked on the Sabbath was based on a tradition of Jewish law, not Christian. If you had any idea about Christianity, Jewish tradition, you would find that Jesus frowned on the legalism of Jews, that they had developed laws based on their traditions over the centuries which did not glorify God, but their own traditions.
Apparently "I have not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets" is something you can selectively choose.
Jews are of Israeli heritage, whether of the Jewish faith or not.
What? Can you explain to me the ethnic Israeli heritage of the Ugandan Jews? You know, I think mDNA studies might disagree with your assertion.
I have made my position quite clear on this. As a Christian I cannot SUPPORT same sex marriage. I support their legal rights as much as any others.
So you agree to the legal establishment of same-sex marriage, but you don't support it yourself? Well that would be good of you. It would show that you're capable of distinguishing between secular laws which apply to all of us, and are based on available evidence, and heavenly laws which belong to particular sects in accordance to their beliefs. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt