Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Gay marriage and the conservative right.

I'm a firmly rooted believer that Jesus the Christ was the Word made manifest, born from the womb lf Mary, named Joshua in his home and Jesus in the common town, who became the messiah, was blessed by the Spirit of God at 30ish, and led a three year ministry teaching, LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR, died, was resurrected, and ascended, guided the church in its establishment, trained his Apostles to perpetuate the growth, who trained others to carry on from them and so forth. 

I believe the Bible is a book with a perfect message.  That doesn't mean every word is literal.  For example, Sarx/Flesh/Sinful nature.  Taken literally is always tied to the human body.  This makes Paul and others animated, Dungeon and Dragon skeletons in Romans 7:5.  The message however, is a perfect message.  This means you have room for metaphors, analogies, and other tools to express the message.

With this in mind, Gay marriage should have already been adopted by the Christian Churches in America, and the outrageous, dehumanizing, attacks on the topic never have occured.   I certainly hope that was inflammatory enough to keep you here.  Now, for the reasoning:

There is no example to follow where Jesus, John, James, Timothy, Barnabus, Peter, Paul, John, Matt, Mark, Luke, etc... ever tried to force beliefs on anyone.  Their ministry was with the people.  Jesus didn't tell the village the woman at the well lived in to punish her.  He spoke with her, one on one. 

Paul said it wasn't his job to judge those outside the Church.

Christ said that we are to love our neighbors, who may be our enemies, as perfectly, or completely as God does.  God's love was described as being one that provided for them; not just tolerate them.  (The Church today does neither to GLBT communities.) 

That love provided necessities.  The word Agapao requires the providential, charitable, representation through action to even qualify as Agapao.  The opposite is happening in this discussion.

Christ said to the soldier and the tax collector, two very "unholy" jobs in that culture that they were to do their jobs for the government, just do them fairly.

We are to respect the government, they are God appointed.

Their role, like the tax collector and soldier above, sometimes require them to not function as a Church.  They have to protect all people they govern.  WHY THE HELL (for hell is the only reason you would...)do you try to impede them doing their God appointed task.

If you use Matt 5:43-48, a quote from the Christ, you are to love your neighbor, even your enemies, and not just a warm fuzzy love, but one that provides/takes action to demonstrate that love to them.

You who yell loudest, are the most unChristian among us.  You are also, the most unBiblical. 

But you are the most rabid, and vapid at the same time.

Please, I appeal to you, stop making God and His Church out to be such a fascist regime.  Talk about AntiChrist.  If CHRIST is the Church, that is to be God's instrument of love to the people, this action is anti Christ by every sense of the word.



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