The Sins of the Fathers

From my understanding of your reformed Judaism or Progressive Judaism you get to pick and choose which practices that you want to adhere to! So I guess Leviticus Chapter 18 has been thrown out of what you adhere too and therefore you have establish or should I say embrace something that goes totally against true Judaism.

Barisha,

You are right in saying that none is perfect and all have sin and fallen short of the glory of God. But if you read those scriptures carefully it doesn't endorses intolerance or prejudice. It demands perfection for all, God has placed this demand on everyone to be perfect because He is perfect. In 1 Corinthians 6:9 it list a whole group of imperfections that will not be tolerated by God and one of them happen to be homosexuality. But most forget about the others such as the following:

1Cor.6
[9] Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
[10] Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
[11] And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

So if you look above it is Inclusive with the sort of lifestyles that have been coverted through Christ that are now in a Exclusive place. Meaning that those who do the will of God, keeping his commandments and living the lifestyle that is pleasing to Him are going to heaven. As it says in scripture,

Acts.17
[30] And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

The Greatest commandment isn't Love of others but Love of God! If you or I aren't loving God then we cannot truly love others. We Christians have also be commanded to speak the word at all times whether one agrees with it or not. We cannot compromise the Word of God. I don't like the things people do but I do love them enough to tell them the truth and even pray for those who are bound by disbelief. Love isn't passive but active in telling one to repent and get right with God is the commision of the saints of God. You are right there is none perfect and God uses those who are imperfect to reach a imperfect world and bring them to repentance. Don't kill the messenger jsut because you don't like the message, but examine the message to see what it is saying is true or not.

Matt.22
[36] Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
[37] Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
[38] This is the first and great commandment.

2Tim.4
[1] I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
[2] Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
[3] For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
[4] And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

We know that it is true that homosexuality is incompatible with the teaching of Christianity. As for the bigotry (this word is overused in the homosexual community) which could indicate many different meanings such as ??? prejudice, racism, intolerance, bias, narrow-mindedness, and chauvinism. Now let us break down each of these words and clarify the Christian stance (1) prejudice is not in the Christians mindset when we see the homosexual community destroying the very fabric of marriage and trying to force their mindset on others through legislation and attacking those of different beliefs. We simply have sufficient knowledge of their agenda and choose not to call evil good and good evil. (2) racism cannot ever be claimed by the homosexual community since homosexuality is not a race but homosexuality is within all races (3) intolerance, so much is made of this word and it is the mindset of homosexuals that we Christians should tolerate homosexuality. Show us one scripture in the bible that tells us we should accept this behavior. Most homosexuals think that when you tell them the truth of God???s word that you are not loving towards them. You even said that homosexuality is incompatible with the teaching of Christianity in the beginning of your post so you acknowledge what the bible says in Romans 8:7 enmity is deep mutual hatred. Christians shouldn???t accept/tolerate teachings contrary to the word of God on sexuality Revelation 2:20 teaches this. (4) bias towards those who say that their behavior is normal when it is not is not bias at all. We Christians don???t show favoritism over those who rape children, commit incest, abortion or fornication. All of these practices are spoken out against by doctrine in Leviticus 18:1-30 1 Corinthians 6:9 and in Revelation 22:15 (5) being narrow-mindedness is to not think like the world for Christians scriptures Matthew 7:13 (6) chauvinism- meaning to be unreasoning is far from the truth of Christians we can only reason with those who aren???t afraid of the truth and will admit when they are wrong.

Homosexuals can attend whatever service they wish to attend, but they don???t have a right to dictate what doctrine is being preached in the pulpit. Or to ascribe to it as Hate Doctrine and try to silence the voices of those who disagree with them on this subject. So don???t try to claim Democracy and freedom on one hand then take it away from Christians in your next breath.

You are wrong! Any Christian agency that promotes immorality has nothing to do with Jesus. I like how you people try to call others bigots if they don't see things your way....if that is not being a bigot then what is? LOL

I agree with your post, but see the issue as a little more complicated than that.