Saturday, December 23, 2006
Full inclusion of GLTB in church?
First: Merry Christmas Eve Eve! Mama ER is in quite a bit of tummy and bobo pain today, mainly because of the feeding tube. They are going to take a looksee tomorrow, which means, at least for today, she gets a pass on eating and being fussed at for not. -- ER
Now, some red meat.
By Michael Westmoreland-White
at his blog, Levellers
Homosexuality is a modern term first coined (in German) in the 1860s and given an English equivalent a few years later. This is the first time in the Western world that the idea of people intrinsically attracted to their own sex develops. Thus, modern translations of the Bible which use the term "homosexual," are anachronistic. There was no ancient or biblical concept for what we call "homosexuality." ...
Read all about it.
From the Covenant of Openness and Affirmation of my church:
We know, with Jesus, that we are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, and that those neigbors include all human beings - encompassing our families, our Church, all other churches and faiths, and the world at large.
We also know that both society and the larger community of faith have often scorned, excluded, attempted "cures", and condemned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in the name of Jesus, in the name of the Bible, and in the name of religious doctrine.
Read all about it.
Pas, y'all!
Now, some red meat.
By Michael Westmoreland-White
at his blog, Levellers
Homosexuality is a modern term first coined (in German) in the 1860s and given an English equivalent a few years later. This is the first time in the Western world that the idea of people intrinsically attracted to their own sex develops. Thus, modern translations of the Bible which use the term "homosexual," are anachronistic. There was no ancient or biblical concept for what we call "homosexuality." ...
Read all about it.
From the Covenant of Openness and Affirmation of my church:
We know, with Jesus, that we are called to love our neighbors as ourselves, and that those neigbors include all human beings - encompassing our families, our Church, all other churches and faiths, and the world at large.
We also know that both society and the larger community of faith have often scorned, excluded, attempted "cures", and condemned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people in the name of Jesus, in the name of the Bible, and in the name of religious doctrine.
Read all about it.
Pas, y'all!
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call it what you will. i honestly consider this the most important issue facing the church in our lifetime -- i mean, as far as who "gets" to be a Christian.
GLBT people are the slaves-women-blacks-Indians of our time. you flog it the Conservative Church's way, i'll flog it Jesus's way. :-)
GLBT people are the slaves-women-blacks-Indians of our time. you flog it the Conservative Church's way, i'll flog it Jesus's way. :-)
The Laodicians were comfortable.
Cheap shots ignored.
I'll be as clear as I know how:
The phrase "living homosexually," in this context -- that is, homosexuality, a state of being, being one thing, and sexually licentious behavior being another -- makes about as much sense as "living whitely" or "living Indianly" or "living womanly."
You don't even get the fine point of the debate.
Oh, and send me a copy of God's Word sometime. I've read the Bible. I'm rereading it now. Show me something "infallible" in this imperfect world, where even Jesus fussed with those who called even Him "good" -- "none," he said, "but God in heaven" is good -- and I'll show you superstition and biblioidolatry.
Jesus saves.
Save Jesus.
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Cheap shots ignored.
I'll be as clear as I know how:
The phrase "living homosexually," in this context -- that is, homosexuality, a state of being, being one thing, and sexually licentious behavior being another -- makes about as much sense as "living whitely" or "living Indianly" or "living womanly."
You don't even get the fine point of the debate.
Oh, and send me a copy of God's Word sometime. I've read the Bible. I'm rereading it now. Show me something "infallible" in this imperfect world, where even Jesus fussed with those who called even Him "good" -- "none," he said, "but God in heaven" is good -- and I'll show you superstition and biblioidolatry.
Jesus saves.
Save Jesus.
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