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Originally Posted by KeepingItReal
First one must decide if they do or do not believe the Bible is true.
Just as God will not force us to serve him, as it is a who so ever will decision to seek him and be saved. He will also allow us to follow whatever path we choose. One could ask why did God allow or create atheists, murderers, and others too.
From a previous post:
Homosexuality is clearly condemned in the Bible. It undermines the basis of God's created order where God made Adam, a man, and Eve, a woman -- not two men, not two women -- to carry out his command to fill and subdue the earth (Gen. 1:28). Homosexuality cannot carry out that command. It also undermines the basic family unit of husband and wife, the God-ordained means of procreation. It is also dangerous to society. (See, Is homosexuality danngerous?)
Unlike other sins, homosexuality has a heavy judgment administered by God Himself upon those who commit it - and support it. This judgment is simple in that those who practice it are given over to their passions - which means that their hearts are allowed to be hardened by their sins.
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error," (Rom. 1:26-27).
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The bible has become a Chinese menu where you can pick what fits and what doesn't. Yet, those who use the Bible to discriminate against gay people do not use the same part of the Bible to discriminate against men who shave, barbers, people with tattoos, pork eaters, football players, and people who eat shellfish. I pity a young pastor in today's church who has a tattoo proclaiming his love of God, who played football for Liberty College and enjoys taking his wife to the Red Lobster for Lobster Feast Night.
Pick and choose. Today's men and women no longer live by the strict wording in the bible. For instance our vets who come back disabled and had to have parts or all of their "man" parts removed can no longer enter the church. That would include testicular cancer and the removal of those parts.
The bible, especially te Old Testemant are full of passages of things we as humans cannot do, we certainly look the other way when it suits our wants and needs.